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By Anna Hirtenstein and Caitlin McCabe Investors piled into shares of economically sensitive companies and pulled back from technology stocks Monday, leading to a divergence in major indexes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 0.1%. The S&P 500 advanced 0.3% to kick off May after finishing April with its best month since November. The Nasdaq Composite, in contrast, pulled back 0.5% after opening higher. Megacap technology companies including Amazon.com, Netflix and Facebook weighed on the technology-heavy index. Investors have been heartened lately by signals that economic growth is picking up, with recent data showing that U.S. indicators ranging from consumer spending to jobless claims are improving. Meanwhile, an exceptionally strong earnings season so far during which most S&P 500 companies have surpassed analysts profit expectations has added to the optimism.
By Syndicated Content
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir
WASHINGTON (Reuters) â The U.S. economy is doing better but is ânot out of the woods yet,â Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday in remarks that flagged an upcoming central bank study documenting the disproportionate blow suffered by the less educated and working parents during the coronavirus downturn.
âThe economy is reopening, bringing stronger economic activity and job creation,â Powell said in remarks prepared for delivery at a conference of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. âThat is the high-level perspective â letâs call it the 30,000-foot view â and from that vantage point, we see improvement. But we should also take a look at what is happening at street level.â
By Syndicated Content
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir
WASHINGTON (Reuters) â The U.S. economy is doing better but is ânot out of the woods yet,â Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday in remarks that flagged an upcoming central bank study documenting the disproportionate blow suffered by the less educated and working parents during the coronavirus downturn.
âThe economy is reopening, bringing stronger economic activity and job creation,â Powell said in remarks prepared for delivery at a conference of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. âThat is the high-level perspective â letâs call it the 30,000-foot view â and from that vantage point, we see improvement. But we should also take a look at what is happening at street level.â
by Tyler Durden
Monday, May 03, 2021 - 09:20 AM
The key event in the first week of May will be another outstanding jobs report with April nonfarm growth expected around 950k (some whispers have it as rising as high as 1.5 million, a number that will unleash another reflation tantrum) and the unemployment rate dropping to 5.7% from 6.0% in March. ISM surveys are likely to push even higher in April, with the manufacturing index rising to 66 and services reaching a new record of 65. As BofA summarizes, with the US economy reopening amid vaccinations, real activity should be robust.
While more than half of S&P companies have now reported, and we are due for a slowdown in earning season, there is still a bevy of heavyweights reporting including iRobot and Chegg on Monday, Pfizer, TMobile on Tuesday, GM, PayPal and Rocket on Wednesday, Moderna, Square and Roku on Thursday and retail darling DraftKing on Friday.
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Crude oil headed lower, while gold ticked up.
By Andreea Papuc, Bloomberg
3 May 2021 08:19
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US equity futures climbed and stocks in Asia dropped Monday as investors assessed inflation risks amid improving economic activity. The dollar held onto gains.
Hong Kong led losses amid low volumes with Japan and China, as well as the UK, among markets closed for holidays. US and European futures edged higher after the S&P 500 dropped from a record Friday, amid data pointing to price pressures and talk of a possible pullback in central bank support. Still, the US gauge capped its biggest monthly rally since November.