Optical and chip names owned the close, with Lumentum up 8.21% to $818.26 and Coherent, Applied Optoelectronics and Arm all gaining more than 5%. Both Petrobras lines sat at the bottom, the preferred shares down 15.6%.
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Moderna's 17.8% drop was the single biggest move at Tuesday's close, and four of the five worst performers were chip and photonics names. Spotify topped the winners.
The downside is doing the damage at Wednesday's open: Applied Optoelectronics is off 10.13%, with Dell and SanDisk each shedding roughly 9%. The best gainer, Intuit at 5.07%, does not come close to matching it.
The optical names took the worst of it at the close, with Ciena down 10.49% and Lumentum and Applied Optoelectronics close behind. Shopify's gain led a much tamer move on the other side of the 382-stock board.
C3.ai is up 9.97% at the open, leading a board where ServiceNow, Salesforce, Shopify and Intuit all gained 3.5% or more. Applied Optoelectronics is down 6% on the other end of the same board.
All three major US wireless carriers are at the bottom of the board at the open, with T-Mobile down 8.9% and AT&T and Verizon close behind. Optical names lead the other side, Applied Optoelectronics up 8.9%.
Optical and data center names filled four of the five worst spots at this close, led by Applied Optoelectronics at -14%. Accenture's 6.2% gain was the best of a far tamer upside.
Constellation Energy opened 12.1% higher at $300, the biggest move across 385 priority names, with NuScale Power close behind. Storage is on the other side of the ledger: Seagate down 6.3%, SanDisk and Micron also lower.
The storage names took the worst of Friday's close, with Western Digital down 10.07% and Seagate off 9.96%. Teradyne led the whole 379-name board at +7.98%.
Three names in our 383-stock board closed with double-digit gains, led by Accenture's 15.6% jump to $211.97, a move that size is rare for a mega-cap consultant. The downside was far tamer, with AMC's 8.2% slide the worst of it.
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