Market Comeback Gains Steam
June 24,2022 12:27 pm EST
Stocks jumped Friday as Wall Street looked to grind out a rare positive week in what has been a rough first half of the year.
The Dow Jones Industrials leaped 654.62 points, or 2.1%, to 31,331.98.
The S&P 500 hiked 91.5 points, or 2.4%, to 3,886.31.
The tech-heavy NASDAQ popped 269.30 points, or 2.4%, to 11,501.49.
Those moves come as the stock market appears to have found some stability this week, at least for the short term. The S&P 500 is up 5% for the week, while the NASDAQ is up 6% and the Dow is 4% higher. All three averages are looking to snap three-week losing streaks.
On the corporate front, Cruise line stocks led the S&P 500 gains. Shares of Carnival Corporation rallied 9% after the company said booking volumes in its most recent quarter were “nearly double” the volumes in the first quarter, or the company''s “best quarterly booking volumes since the beginning of the pandemic.”
Royal Caribbean Group surged 12%. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings'' rallied 11%. Wynn Resorts was up 8%.
On the corporate front, shares of FedEx surged 9% despite a mixed fourth-quarter report after the logistics company delivered an upbeat earnings forecast
Consumer sentiment hit a record low reading of 50 in June, according to a University of Michigan survey released Friday morning.
While on the surface that is not positive for the market, investors liked a figure inside the report which showed 12-month inflation expectations by consumers easing back to 5.3%.
Treasury prices were lower, raising yields to 3.12% from Thursday''s 3.09%. Treasury prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Oil prices soared $3.05 to $107.32 U.S. a barrel.
Gold prices slid $1.30 to $1,828.60 U.S. an ounce.
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