Morgans AM: Friday, 5 November 2021

Morgans Financial Limited

The S&P500 and Nasdaq logged their sixth consecutive record closing highs - Dow slipped -33-points or -0.09% snaping a run of four record closing highs as Goldman Sachs Group Inc (down -2.35%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (-1.31%). The broader S&P500 rose +0.42% to a record close of 4,680.06, with Information Technology (up +1.54%) and Consumer Discretionary (+1.49%) both rising ~1.5% to lead six of the eleven primary sectors higher. Financials (down -1.34%) and Real Estate (-1.14%) declined over >1% to be the worst performing primary sectors. The technology-centric Nasdaq gained +0.81% to 15,940.31. NVIDIA Corp soared +12.04%, recording its largest single-day percentage gain in more than 19 months and topped US$700B in market capitalisation for the first time, as optimism builds ahead of the chipmaker’s annual GTC developer conference on Monday (8 November). Qualcomm Inc jumped +12.73% after the chipmaker forecast better-than-expected profit and revenue for its current quarter after the close of the previous session on soaring demand for chips used in phones, cars and other internet-connected devices. The small capitalisation Russell 2000 dipped -0.08% after climbing to a fresh record closing high a day earlier.