U.S. stocks rose in choppy trading on Friday, at the end of another volatile week as Oracle delivered solid quarterly results while data suggested a gradual pace of economic revival from the coronavirus-led downturn.
The cloud services company’s shares hit a record high after its earnings beat estimates and it signaled a recovery in client spending due to higher remote working-led demand.
Trading in so-called “stay-at-home winners” — Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Netflix Inc — were mixed but the mega-caps were set to fall between 2.7% and 6.4% for the week, extending losses from last Friday that brought Wall Street’s rally to a screeching halt.
The S&P 500 was headed for the first back-to-back weekly decline since March as concerns about the massive build-up in call options tied to tech names exacerbated the selloff.
“We are seeing some rotation from the previous leaders into some of the laggards and it’s a potentially encouraging sign that we’re not just having a ‘sell everything’ moment like in March,” said Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Financial in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Economically sensitive materials and industrials rose the most among the major S&P sectors.
“The upward trajectory is in play but it’s just going to be much more of a volatile give-and-take relationship and it might cause some investors some pain on those pullbacks,” Detrick said.
Many investors view the slump as a healthy consolidation after a stunning five-month rally in the S&P 500 that was powered by a narrow group of heavyweight tech names and scores of fiscal and monetary stimulus.
Meanwhile, latest data showed U.S. consumer prices increased solidly in August, but the labor market’s slack is likely to keep a lid on inflation as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 recession. At 11:05 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 273.79 points, or 0.99%, at 27,808.37, the S&P 500 was up 27.81 points, or 0.83%, at 3,367.00. The Nasdaq Composite was up 86.51 points, or 0.79%, at 11,006.10.
Exercise bike maker Peloton Interactive Inc climbed 4.1% as it reported forecast-beating quarterly revenue due to a surge in subscribers and increased demand for its fitness products during the pandemic.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.60-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.56-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded four new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 15 new highs and 15 new lows.
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