Market Optimism Drives Crude Oil Prices Lower
Markets reopened following the holiday weekend with renewed optimism that negotiators in the U.S.-Iran war are making progress, sending Crude Oil prices and Treasury yields lower and broader indices higher. Basic Materials and Industrials were the best performing sectors in the S&P 500, while Energy was the worst as WTI Crude Oil fell over 3% below $94 per barrel. Demand for AI-capex-linked Tech names also remained strong as the bid in memory stocks remained unrelenting - Micronjoined the trillion-dollar-market-cap club with a 20% jump, followed by On Semi, Teradyne, and Western Digital, whose shares were up 8%-9%.In the opening hour of the evening session, index futures are little changed. S&P 500 is just shy of 7,540, Nasaq 100 is above 30,000 and Dow Industrials - the lone index to finish Tuesday in the red due to declines in all of its Healthcare components - is just above 50,550.Check out this evening's top movers from around Wall Street, compiled by The Fly.HIGHER AFTER EARNINGS -Semtechup 7.0%Oomaup 2.4%Modine Manufacturingup 1.7%DOWN AFTER EARNINGS -Zscalerdown 19.4%Transcatdown 3.0%Box, Inc.down 1.7%ALSO LOWER -Verra Mobilitydown 42.7% after termination of agreement notice from Avis BudgetSOLV Energydown 7.8% after equity offeringGlobalFoundriesdown 6.6% after block saleInsuletdown 6.2% after initiating voluntary medical device correction for certain Omnipod lotsFirefly Aerospacedown 5.3% after equity offeringForgent Power Solutionsdown 4.7% after equity offering
