U.S. stocks traded mixed toward the end of trading, with the Dow Jones dropping over 100 points on Tuesday.
The Dow traded down 0.38% to 32,966.16 while the NASDAQ rose 0.14% to 12,994.47. The S&P 500, also fell, dropping, 0.15% to 4,199.17.
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Leading and Lagging Sectors
- Information technology shares rose by 0.7% on Tuesday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the AI), up 19%.
- In trading on Tuesday, energy shares fell 1.6%.
Top Headline
The CB consumer confidence index fell to 102.3 in May, versus prior reading of 103.7. However, analysts were expecting a reading of 99.0.
Equities Trading UP
- Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AAIC) shares shot up 47% to $4.0550 after Ellington Financial announced plans to acquire the company.
- Shares of Aclarion, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACON) got a boost, shooting 65% to $1.02 after the company announced a commercial agreement with the London Clinic and London Spine Clinic.
- T2 Biosystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTOO) shares were also up, gaining 55% to $0.1463 after the company announced the second-largest sepsis-driven T2Dx instruments sale in the company's history.
Equities Trading DOWN
- Smart for Life, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMFL) shares dropped 37% to $1.3599. Smart for Life reported exercise of warrants for $4.5 million in gross proceeds.
- Shares of SeqLL Inc. (NASDAQ:SQL) were down 24% to $0.3896. SeqLL entered into definitive merger agreement with Lyneer Staffing Solutions and Atlantic Acquisition Corp.
- Applied UV, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUVI) was down, falling 34% to $0.3699. Applied UV reported a 1-for-5 reverse stock split.
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Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded down 4.5% to $69.37 while gold traded up 0.7% at $1,976.90.
Silver traded down 0.4% to $23.265 on Tuesday while copper fell 0.7% to $3.6560.
Euro zone
European shares closed lower today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 fell 0.92%, London’s FTSE 100 fell 1.38% while Spain’s IBEX 35 Index fell 0.14% The German DAX slipped 0.27% French CAC 40 fell 1.29% and Italy’s FTSE MIB Index fell 0.16%.
Bank lending to households in the Eurozone climbed by 2.5% year-over-year to EUR 6.87 trillion during the month of April.
Industrial producer prices in Italy dropped by 1.5% year-over-year in April, recording the first drop since Jan. 2021. Retail sales in Spain rose 5.5% year-over-year in April, versus a revised 9.9% surge in the prior month. Spanish consumer price inflation fell to 3.2% in May.
Asia Pacific Markets
Asian markets closed higher on Tuesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 gaining 0.30%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rising 0.24% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index gaining 0.09%. India’s S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.1%.
Japanese unemployment rate fell to 2.6% in April from March's reading of 2.8%, and compared to market expectations of 2.7%.
Economics
- The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index in the U.S. declined 1.1% year-over-year in March, recording the first drop since May 2012.
- The FHFA house price index increased by 0.6% versus the previous month in March.
- The CB consumer confidence index fell to 102.3 in May, versus prior reading of 103.7. However, analysts were expecting a reading of 99.0.
- The Dallas’ Fed manufacturing index fell by 5.7 points from the prior month to a reading of -29.1 in May.
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COVID-19 Update
The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 107,104,020 cases with around 1,165,280 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 44,990,270 cases and 531,860 deaths, while France reported over 40,080,480 COVID-19 cases with 167,260 deaths. In total, there were at least 689,478,910 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 6,884,010 deaths.
