US markets end in green on Monday

18 Apr 2023 Evaluate

The US markets ended higher with gains over quarter percent on Monday as a report from the National Association of Home Builders said the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index in the US increased to 45 in April of 2023, rising for a fourth month in a row. This is a fresh high since September of 2022. Some support also came in on hopes that major banks and top ranking companies will come out with fairly encouraging earnings updates this week. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley are scheduled to announce their quarterly earnings during the course of this week. Results are also due from Netflix, J&J and Tesla this week. However, markets were largely subdued for most part of the session amid concerns about economic slowdown and uncertainty about the outlook for interest rates.

Meanwhile, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Thomas Barkin said that he wants to see more evidence of inflation settling back to target. Barkin also said that he feels reassured by what he is seeing in the banking sector. in the stock specific developments, Prometheus Biosciences soared 70 percent after Merck announced that it would acquire the biosciences company for approximately $10.8 billion. Shares of Charles Schwab Corporation surged about 4 percent after the company reported stronger than expected first-quarter earnings. However, Alphabet shares ended 2.6% down on reports Samsung is considering replacing Google with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine on its devices.

Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 100.71 points or 0.3 percent to 33,987.18, Nasdaq gained 34.26 points or 0.28 percent to 12,157.72 and S&P 500 was up by 13.68 points or 0.33 percent to 4,151.32.

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