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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit record highs on Wednesday as investors bought into technology stocks that have thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic following the upbeat quarterly results from Salesforce and HP Enterprise. .N
At 11:30 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 0.15% at 28,205.74. The S&P 500 .SPX was up 0.41% at 3,457.81 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 1.07% at 11,589.454. The top three S&P 500 .PG.INX percentage gainers: ** Salesforce.Com Inc
BUZZ-Street View: Salesforce on cloud nine after blow-out quarter ** Fluidigm Corp FLDM.O: up 32.4%
BUZZ-Soars after COVID-19 test gets emergency approval ** Tesla Inc TSLA.O: up 4.5%
BUZZ-Jefferies supercharges PT on battery-making potential ** Nordstrom Inc JWN.N: down 6.8%
BUZZ-Falls on downbeat Q2; brokerage calls results 'relative anomaly' ** Urban Outfitters Inc URBN.O: up 21.2%
BUZZ-Urban Outfitter jumps on surprise quarterly profit ** Express Inc EXPR.N: down 5.3%
BUZZ-Falls as Q2 loss wider than expected ** XpresSpa Group Inc XSPA.O: down 16.7%
BUZZ-Plunges on direct stock-and-warrants deal ** Trine Acquisition Corp TRNE.N: up 14.1%
BUZZ-Set for record high on Desktop Metal merger ** Dick's Sporting Goods Inc DKS.N: up 14.8%
BUZZ-Jumps as profit beats on exercise equipment demand ** Anaplan Inc PLAN.N: up 29.0%
BUZZ-Jumps on better-than-expected results, forecast ** Apple Inc AAPL.O: up 0.8%
BUZZ-Wedbush raises PT to highest on Street ** Nio Inc NIO.N: up 10.9%
BUZZ-Nio burning rubber as Morgan Stanley turns bullish ** First Solar FSLR.O: up 2.7%
BUZZ-BofA raises price objective on capacity boost plans ** Intuit Inc INTU.O: up 1.8%
BUZZ-Set for fifth straight record high on big Q4 beat ** Workday Inc WDAY.O: up 8.3%
BUZZ-Gains; Jefferies raises PT ahead of results ** Autodesk Inc ADSK.O: down 2.4%
BUZZ-Ticks lower on gloomy outlook ** Moderna Inc MRNA.O: up 6.0%
BUZZ-Rises on positive potential COVID-19 vaccine trial data ** Pure Storage Inc PSTG.N: down 9.2%
BUZZ-Pure Storage falls on gloomy Q3 sales outlook ** Clearside Biomedical CLSD.O: up 1.1%
BUZZ-Gains on new Europe, U.S. patents ** CohBar Inc CWBR.O: down 31.3%
BUZZ-Tumbles on discounted stock-and-warrant offering ** Garrett Motion Inc GTX.N: down 42.1%
BUZZ-Down as co seeks to address balance sheet concerns ** Chico's FAS Inc CHS.N: up 17.7%
BUZZ-Rises on expectations of improved cash flow in H2 ** K12 Inc LRN.N: down 13.2%
BUZZ-shares schooled on planned $300 mln convertible debt offering ** 3D Systems Corp DDD.N: up 5.0%
BUZZ-Gains after co names new CFO ** Roku Inc ROKU.O: up 8.6%
BUZZ-Jumps as Citi sees account growth, starts with 'buy' ** Marathon Patent Group Inc MARA.O: up 2.9%
BUZZ-Bitcoin miner Marathon Patent rises on deal to buy peer Fastblock Mining ** Avid Bioservices CDMO.O: up 1.2%
BUZZ-Gains on contract to help develop antiviral drug candidate ** Palo Alto Networks PANW.N: up 0.9%
BUZZ-Rises as Deutsche Bank hikes PT to Street's highest
The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:
Communication Services
.SPLRCL
up 1.88%
Consumer Discretionary
.SPLRCD
up 0.66%
Consumer Staples
.SPLRCS
down 0.59%
Energy
.SPNY
down 1.51%
Financial
.SPSY
down 0.40%
Health
.SPXHC
down 0.99%
Industrial
.SPLRCI
down 0.20%
Information Technology
.SPLRCT
up 1.63%
Materials
.SPLRCM
up 0.42%
Real Estate
.SPLRCR
down 0.99%
Utilities
.SPLRCU
down 1.44%
(Compiled by Shivani Kumaresan in Bengaluru)
((Shivani.Kumaresan@thomsonreuters.com ; +1 646 223 8780))
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