During Market hours yesterday — Tuesday (22.12.2020):
The S&P 500 fell for a third straight session on Tuesday even after Congress approved a long-delayed coronavirus relief package.
- The Dow (Symbol: DIA) went down 0.7%. The S&P 500 (Symbol: SPY) sank 0.2%. The Nasdaq (Symbol: QQQ) climbed 0.3%.
- Peloton (Symbol: PTON)— The exercise equipment stock jumped more than 11.7% and hit an all-time high after Peloton announced that it planned to buy equipment manufacture Precor for $420 million. The deal could help Peloton ramp up production to meet strong demand.
- IAC (Symbol: IAC)— Shares of IAC jumped more than 14.1% on Tuesday after announcing it is spinning off its full stake in video software company Vimeo. Vimeo will become an independent publicly traded company after the deal closes, expected in the second quarter of 2021.
- Apple (Symbol: AAPL)— A gain of 2.9% helped Apple offset losses in the major indexes given the iPhone maker’s $2.2 trillion market cap. Investors accredited the equity’s strength to reports that Apple is advancing plans to manufacture self-driving cars by 2024, a massive undertaking the tech company has dubbed Project Titan.
- CarMax (Symbol: KMX)— The auto retailer reported quarterly per-share earnings of $1.42, topping the consensus estimate of $1.14 a share. Revenue also came in above Wall Street forecasts. But CarMax shares fell more than 8% after the company reported that comparable used-vehicle sales dropped 0.8% compared to a FactSet consensus estimate of a 1% increase.
- Carnival (Symbol: CCL), Norwegian Cruise Line (Symbol: NCLH), MGM Resorts (Symbol: MGM) — Travel-related stocks came under pressure amid lingering concerns about the new coronavirus strain from the U.K. Carnival lost 5.9%, Norwegian Cruise Line fell 6.9% and Royal Caribbean (Symbol: RCL) dipped 3%. MGM Resorts fell 0.5%. Delta Air Lines (Symbol: DAL), American Airlines (Symbol: AAL) and United Airlines (Symbol: UAL) all slipped more than 2.5%.
- Sportsman’s Warehouse (Symbol: SPWH)– Shares of the retailer surged 39.6% after the company said it agreed to be bought by Great American Outdoors Group. The parent company of Cabela’s will pay $18 in cash per share of Sportsman’s Warehouse, above the stock’s Monday closing price of $12.65 per share.
- RealReal (Symbol: REAL)— Shares of the luxury clothing company popped 10.3% after Baird initiated coverage of RealReal with an outperform rating. The Wall Street firm called RealReal a “compelling open-ended growth story.”
During Premarket hours today – Wednesday (23.12.2020):
U.S. weekly jobless claims total 803,000, vs 888,000 expected.
- Pfizer (Symbol: PFE) – Pfizer and the government struck a deal for the drugmaker and partner BioNTech (Symbol: BNTX) to provide 100 million more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, increasing the total that Pfizer has agreed to provide to 200 million.
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