Stock market news live updates: Stocks rally in final days of 2022 – Yahoo Finance
U.S. stocks charged higher Thursday as investors attempted to salvage the last two trading days of a brutal year for markets.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) gained 1.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) jumped nearly 300 points, or 0.9%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) surged 2.1%. The moves come after all three major averages erased more than 1% in the previous trading session.
Megacap tech giants Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) all clawed at least 2% higher, helping lift the broader market after a sell-off over the past two days. The risk-off trade this week saw Apple fall below the key technical $130 level and Amazon become the third of FAANG+ stocks — along with Meta (META) and Netflix (NFLX) — to erase its pandemic gains and close below its March 2020 COVID crash low on Tuesday.
Investors continued to watch a rebound in Tesla (TSLA) after the stock snapped a seven-day losing streak Wednesday after a multi-session selling spree over concerns around the shutdown at its factory in China. Shares rose nearly 8% Thursday.
Electric vehicle peers Rivian (RIVN), Lucid (LCID), and Nio (NIO) all recovered alongside Tesla after electric carmakers were under pressure all week.
Cal-Maine Foods (CALM) shares sank more than 10%, even as the egg producer reported fiscal second-quarter earnings beat analyst estimates, with revenue jumping 110% over last year as inflation and the bird flu pushed up egg prices.
Elsewhere on Thursday, biotech company Kala Pharmaceuticals (KALA) spiked 31%, extending a surge after the stock quadrupled Wednesday following the Food and Drug Administration’s acceptance of the company’s investigational new drug application for treatment of persistent corneal epithelial defect.
On the economic data front, filings for unemployment insurance rose to 225,000 in the week ended Dec. 24. from the prior week’s reading of 216,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The print came in on part with consensus estimates from economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Traders work at the post where Carvana Co. is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In other markets, oil extended a drop after its recent rally, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures — the U.S. benchmark — falling 2.2% to trade just above $77.
U.S. Treasury yields dipped, and the U.S. dollar index also retreated.
Selling pressures across December spurred by concerns around rising interest rates and a looming economic downturn have continued into the end of the month and thrown a wrench into the seasonal year-end rally that …….