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As of 2:20 p.m. ET, the Nasdaq Composite is now down 2.54%. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is now down 4.8% while NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) has slipped 4.2%.
Rotation continues to shift into industries like utilities and financial stocks. 22 out of 23 regulated utility stocks in the S&P 500 are up. Every S&P 500 stock in diversified banking is also up today.
Another area of strength is consumer defensive stocks, with money flowing into Procter & Gamble and Clorox.
As of 11:15 a.m. ET, the market sell-off has accelerated:
Tech-heavy sectors like Information Technology and Communication Services are leading the sell-off. Information Technology stocks are down 2.18% today.
Most tech megacaps are down a similar amount today:
There’s no specific news backing today’s sell-off, but investors are rotating their holdings post-election. Financial stocks are once again doing well.
On the other hand, the post-election sell-off of healthcare stocks continues. Eli Lilly is down 4.39%, Merck is down 2.68%, and Pfizer is down 3.96%.
Here’s a rundown of economic data points released this morning.
US Retail Sales
Came in at a .4% growth versus October, which was slightly ahead of expectations of a .3% jump. Quite a bit of the jump came from auto sales.
Fed Remarks
Remarks from Austin Goolsbee, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago were worth monitoring this morning.
Goolsbee said the Fed is closely monitoring the movement of 10-year Treasuries but “feels good” about a 12-18 month path to neutral interest rates. He added that rates are likely to “need to fall” across the next year.
One note – Goolsbee also said he doesn’t think rates will move back to where they were before the pandemic and the Fed remains in a more restrictive posture.
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Markets are ending the week with a slide. As of 9 a.m. ET, Nasdaq futures are down 199 points, or .95%. Other indexes are down as well with Dow Futures implying a .38% drop at the open and S&P 500 futures off .58%.
Let’s take a look at some of the major stories shaping the market today.
Stocks of the companies that build the equipment to make semiconductors have performed excellently the past decade. However, ongoing trade restrictions with China have crimped sales for many of the largest companies in this industry. Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) reported earnings last night that came in below expectations for next quarter.
The company expects revenue of $6.75 to $7.55 billion. The midpoint of that g uidance comes in below Wall Street expectations of $7.25 billion. That miss was enough to send shares down 9% in premarket trading.
What is Warren Buffett buying? Filings from Berkshire Hathway (NYSE: BRK.B) reveal an investment in Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) and Pool Corp. (Nasdaq: POOL). The news that Berkshire has bought shares of each company has sent their prices soaring in premarket. Pool Corp. is up 4% while Domino’s is up more than 5% in premarket trading.
Berkshire now owns more than 1.3 million shares of Domino’s Pizza, which is roughly a $600 million position after its jump in trading this morning.
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Eric Bleeker has been investing for more than 20 years. He began his career working at Microsoft before joining Motley Fool, one of the largest publishers of financial research. In his 15 years at Motley Fool Eric served as the General Manager for Fool.com and led coverage in the Technology & Telecom sector. In addition, he was a featured columnist and has hosted dozens of investing seminars attended by more than a million total investors. Eric has more than 1,000 financial bylines to his name and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox Business, and many other leading publications. He is currently focused on artificial intelligence investing and is a CFA Charterholoder.
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