Monday, June 4, 2018, 10:36 AM, EST
- NASDAQ Composite +0.17% Dow +0.71% S&P 500 +0.27% Russell 2000 -0.24%
- NASDAQ Advancers: 1014 Decliners: 1152
- Today's Volume (100 day avg) -9.1%
Friday's bullish tone continues today lifting markets in Asia, Europe and the US. The major US indices opened in the green with Nasdaq Composite just 12 points shy of a record, but the R2K is pulling back slightly over the past few minutes after setting an intraday record high. Most sectors are in the green with Energy (+0.9%) and Consumer Staples (+0.9%) in the lead; Utilities (-0.4) seeing some weakness and Healthcare is unchanged. Worries over trade and Italy are simmering in the background for now, but otherwise it is generally a quiet morning in terms of news flow. Treasuries are a little weaker, the dollar index is off -0.3% while gold is flat, and crude oil slides -0.5%, its ninth decline in the past eleven sessions.
- Merger Monday continuesas Microsoft (MSFT) announced the acquisition of GitHub (private) in an all-stock deal valued at $7.5 billion. YTD, global M&A has top $2.6 trillion of announced or proposed deals which is up 2.5% from this time last year. In North America, we have seen $1.3 trillion of deals already which is up nearly 17% from this point last year.
- So you want to have lunch with Warren Buffett? This year it cost the "lucky" winner $3,300,100! Each year famed investor Warrant Buffett conducts a charity auction for San Francisco based Glide Foundation a favorite cause of the billionaire's first wife. Glide offers free meals, health care and other services to homeless and low-income people in San Francisco. While this year's anonymous bid was higher than last years $2,679,001winner, it fell short of the record of $3,456,789. The lunch entitles the winner to invite 7 friends to New York's Smith and Wollensky. The steakhouses founder also makes a charitable donation to Glide
- Factory orders fell -0.8% in April from an upwardly revised +1.7% in March, and ex-transport orders rose 0.4% in April and March was revised to +0.5%. Non-defense orders also rose 1% after a similar decline in March. Tomorrow's ISM Services report is expected to increase from April and come in around 57.6.
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