The Wall Street rally to start 2024 seems to be slowing down in the last week of the first quarter. Stocks were down slightly Tuesday, with all three major market indexes finishing in the red.
The Dow hasn’t come as close to crossing 40,000 for the first time as it did last week
The Wall Street rally to start 2024 seems to be slowing down in the last week of the first quarter. Stocks were down slightly Tuesday, with all three major market indexes finishing in the red.
The S&P 500 closed down about 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.1% and the Nasdaq $NDAQ was off 0.4%. The Dow, which closed at 39,282.33, hasn’t come as close to crossing 40,000 for the first time as it did last week.
Investors were waiting next for GameStop $GME to report earnings after the bell. GameStop stock, the most famous “meme stock” on Wall Street, surged Monday and closed up 2.5% on Tuesday.
Here’s what else is happening in the markets.
After weeks of under performance that saw it trail its “Magnificent Seven” tech rivals at or near the bottom of the S&P 500, Tesla $TSLA stock was up as much as 6% on Tuesday. The rise came after Elon Musk required employees of the electric vehicle maker to install and show customers how to use his company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistance system before finalizing any deliveries in North America. He also said all U.S. cars capable of using FSD will have the system enabled for a one-month trial.
Tesla stock gave back some of those gains to close up about 3%.
McCormick & Co. stock rallied more than 10% after the spice maker reported a 3% increase in sales from a year ago. The company’s revenue exceeded the estimate from $1.55 billion to $1.6 billion.
Reddit $RDDT, which enjoyed a successful IPO last week, surged another 15% on Tuesday as options trading started and investors poured money into the newly listed company. Reddit stock closed up about 9%.
At its annual investor day, shipping giant UPS increased its revenue target for 2026, to between $108 billion and $114 billion. But it warned investors that the current quarter will be the “toughest” of the year and that profits will fall by 40%.
UPS stock closed down about 8%.
Amid the record inflows for spot Bitcoin ETFs, Bitcoin surged past $71,000 and close to its all-time high of $73,000. But it fell below $70,000 later in the afternoon. An executive with investing giant BlackRock $BLK recently said Bitcoin won’t be as volatile as it used to be, as cryptocurrencies becomes more mature and institutionalized.
Ether was trading at $3,500 late in the day, and Dogecoin was at $0.17.
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