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U.S. equity markets rallied Tuesday as some of the country’s biggest banks kicked off earnings season.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 596 points, or 2.6 percent, while the S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent.
The Nasdaq Composite surged 2.9 percent, on track to leave its bear market and stretch its winning streak to four days, the longest since February. The index must close higher by at least 40.38 points to officially exit.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I:DJI | DOW JONES AVERAGES | 23837.4 | +446.63 | +1.91% |
| SP500 | S&P 500 | 2831.13 | +69.50 | +2.52% |
| I:COMP | NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX | 8447.878954 | +255.45 | +3.12% |
With financial reports for the first quarter just beginning, Wall Street analysts surveyed by FactSet expected S&P 500 earnings to fall 9 percent from a year ago, the first quarterly decline since the financial crisis.
Dow components JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Johnson & Johnson and the San Francisco-based lender Wells Fargo all released results.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a 69 percent drop in profit from a year ago and set aside $6.8 billion to cover loan losses from the economic shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both earnings and revenue were below expectations.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNJ | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 146.50 | +6.73 | +4.82% |
| JPM | JP MORGAN CHASE & CO. | 96.07 | -2.12 | -2.16% |
| WFC | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 30.29 | -1.14 | -3.63% |
Wells Fargo set aside $3.1 billion to cover loan losses and reported a quarterly profit of 1 cent a share, missing estimates. Revenue of $17.7 billion also disappointed.
Johnson & Johnson reported top- and bottom-line results that topped estimates and hiked its quarterly dividend by 6.3 percent to $1.01 a share.
Amazon shares opened at a record high, crossing $2,200 for the first time. The stock needs to finish the day above $2,170.22 to post its highest close on record.
Beer-maker Anheuser Busch Inbev cut its dividend in half to 50 cents a share, a move that will save the brewer about $1.1 billion.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN | AMAZON.COM INC. | 2,258.14 | +89.27 | +4.12% |
| BUD | ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV | 48.45 | -0.95 | -1.92% |
| ROKU | ROKU INC | 107.42 | +10.86 | +11.25% |
Video-streaming service Roku soared after preliminary quarterly results showed the number of new subscribers jumped 37 percent year-over-year to 39.8 million as home viewership increases with Americans spending more time in their houses to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company withdrew its full-year guidance.
Commodities were mixed, with West Texas Intermediate crude oil falling 2.72 percent to $21.80 a barrel while gold traded up 0.7 percent at $1,773 an ounce.
U.S. Treasurys were little changed, with the yield on the 10-year note holding at 0.75 percent.
In Europe, Germany’s DAX climbed 1.55 percent while France’s CAC rose 0.88 percent. Britain’s FTSE slid 0.56 percent.
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Markets rallied across Asia, with Japan’s Nikkei up 3.13 percent, China’s Shanghai Composite climbing 1.59 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gaining 0.56 percent.
