Exxon Mobil cleared its March 30 peak with a 52-week high at $172.15. The major has spent six months stuck below that line and just broke through.
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Arm closed up 17.19% at $323, topping a session where four other priority names each added more than 12%. Declines stayed shallow: Novo Nordisk's 7.94% drop was the only one past 4%, with Exxon Mobil and Chevron down under 3%.
Closed up 38.1%, a move no other priority name came close to matching. Axon, Digital Turbine, Dell, Cava and SentinelOne all shed more than 6.5% in a single session.
Exxon Mobil raised its quarterly payout 4% to $1.03 a share, extending a 26-year run of dividends through every oil cycle since 2000. Buy after today's ex-date and you wait a full quarter for the $4.12 annual rate.
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