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Wall Street rallies to end higher on Alphabet, Netflix lift

Stock Markets 2 hours ago (Jan 20, 2023 06:55PM ET)
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By Chuck Mikolajczak

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied to close higher on Friday, as the S&P 500 and Dow snapped a three-session losing streak and the Nasdaq rose more than 2%, as quarterly earnings helped lift Netflix, while Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) climbed after announcing job cuts.

Shares of Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) jumped 8.46% as the streaming company added more subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter and said co-founder Reed Hastings was stepping down as chief executive.

Netflix's quarterly report comes as the technology and other growth-related sectors face hurdles due to the rising interest rate path of the U.S. Federal Reserve and recession worries that have led companies such as Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) to lay off thousands of employees.

Alphabet Inc was the most recent company to announce job cuts as it said it was cutting 12,000 jobs, sending shares 5.34% higher.

The gains sent the communication services index up 3.96% as the top performer among the 11 major S&P 500 sectors, notching its biggest daily percentage gain since Nov. 30.

High-growth sectors such as communication services were among the worst performing in 2022 and were notably weaker in the last few months of the year as investors gravitated towards stocks with high dividend yields.

"Today’s action is probably because we had three down days so it got into a little bit of an oversold position and they are just doing a little bit of bargain hunting today," said Ken Polcari, managing partner at Kace Capital Advisors in Boca Raton, Florida.

"If people are viewing an opportunity, if they are getting more comfortable with the Fed’s narrative... investors are starting to buy into that narrative and saying 'OK that is the way it is, let’s look at the stocks that got really beaten up' because the market is a discounting mechanism."

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 330.93 points, or 1%, to 33,375.49, the S&P 500 gained 73.76 points, or 1.89%, to 3,972.61 and the Nasdaq Composite added 288.17 points, or 2.66%, to 11,140.43.

For the week, the Dow lost 2.7%, the S&P 500 shed 0.66% and the Nasdaq gained 0.55%.

Comments from Federal Reserve officials have largely said they expect interest rates to climb to at least 5% this year as the central bank continues to try and tamp down high inflation. On Friday, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said the central bank may be "pretty close" to a point where rates are "sufficiently restrictive" to cool inflation, which gave an additional boost to equities.

The Fed is largely expected to raise rates by 25 basis points (bps) at its Feb. 1 policy announcement.

Still, concerns about corporate earnings persist as the U.S. economy shows signs of a slowdown and a possible recession.

Analysts now expect year-over-year earnings from S&P 500 companies to decline 2.9% for the fourth quarter, according to Refinitiv data, compared with a 1.6% decline in the beginning of the year.

Gains on the Dow were curbed, however, by a 2.54% fall in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) after the Wall Street Journal reported the Fed was probing the company's consumer business.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.90 billion shares, compared with the 10.87 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 3.55-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.63-to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted one new 52-week high and four new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 77 new highs and 20 new lows.

Wall Street rallies to end higher on Alphabet, Netflix lift
 

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Gary Piccone
Gary Piccone 3 hours ago
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Impending recession and the market goes up. Hmm
LEVENTE HUGO BARA
LEVENTE HUGO BARA 4 hours ago
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Many of the people who push this up by 2 % will cry in the next weeks for sure , crazy world and this crazyness must be panished hard by reality .
Dave Jones
Dave Jones 5 hours ago
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Oh yeah and by the way America has officially run out of cash....
First Last
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That's why the market is up about 2% today.
Dave Jones
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More cash printing equals more inflation equals higher interest payments equals an unsustainable debt spiral and loss of confidence and the end of the petrodollar.
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Contradiction: "run out of cash" & "More cash printing"
Hank Williams
Hank Williams 5 hours ago
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Yellen is undermining the Fed.
Nezrin Heybetova
Nezrin Heybetova 5 hours ago
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carlos guo
carlos guo 6 hours ago
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Today "Wall Street climbs on Alphabet, Netflix lift"...Monday "Wall Street sees greatest drop since Great Depression as rate hie fears return"
Steven ML
Steven ML 5 hours ago
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No need to mention Biden when markets go up Carlos?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jay Ow
Jay Ow 6 hours ago
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Can I ask you all, for every bad news, can you make 3 great ones?
Jacky Lee
Jacky Lee 6 hours ago
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Yeah.. the exonomy is getting better with more furloughs
carlos guo
carlos guo 6 hours ago
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Nothing says "buy" like Google laying off 12,000 employees.
Luke Knoep
Luke Knoep 5 hours ago
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carlos guo then stop complaining and short puts if you see an opportunity
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Luke Knoep   carlos isn't here to spread investing/trading knowledge.  So few are.
Dave Jones
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Bad news is good news. Hogwash is the finest champagne if you put enough spin on it
Mark Deren
Mark Deren 6 hours ago
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Wow! A huge earnings miss, inline revenue, and losing the CEO for Netflix and Alphabet cutting 12000 jobs is a positive for the tech sector and the Markets as a whole? Someone should lay off David Russell and then ask him how positive getting laid off is for TradeStation Group?
 
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