A rebound for several influential Big Tech stocks is helping to lift the US market despite a fall for Apple and mixed trading elsewhere on Wall Street.
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rebound → help → Street
The S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent, even though more stocks fell within the index than rose.
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stocks → rise → index
The Australian sharemarket is set to retreat, with futures pointing to a fall of 28 points, or 0.3 per cent, at the open.
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futures → set → open
The ASX added 0.3 per cent on Tuesday, with the Reserve Bank raising interest rates to an 18-year high.
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Bank → add → high
The Australian dollar was trading at US69.74¢.
Wall Street has been shaky recently as technology and artificial-intelligence stocks have swung on worries their prices shot too high in the frenzy around AI.
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prices → trade → AI
Several of the most influential AI-related stocks held firmer, which supported the market, after flipping from gains in the morning to losses in the afternoon a day earlier.
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which → relate → afternoon
Nvidia rose 3.2 per cent and was the strongest force pushing upward on the S&P 500 Tuesday.
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Nvidia → rise → S&P
Apple was long seen on Wall Street as a Big Tech company that’s less dependent on AI.
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that → see → AI
But it’s still feeling the effects of the AI boom.
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it → feel → boom
Memory chips for computers have become more expensive because of the demand created by the rush to build AI data centres.
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chips → become → centres
Those additional expenses are hitting Apple, which said it expects to make less profit from each dollar of its revenue during the final three months of this year.
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it → hit → year
That helped send Apple’s stock down 2 per cent, even though the seller of iPhones and Mac computers reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
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analysts → help → quarter
Palantir Technologies fell 2.1 per cent even though it likewise reported a better profit than expected.
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it → fall → profit
The software company said it made more money working with US companies than from the US government for the first time, as US commercial revenue soared 148 per cent from a year earlier.
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revenue → say → time
Tuesday’s midterm elections may also be keeping financial markets unsteady, but history suggests they may not matter much for the broad market.
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they → keep → market
Going back to 1970, the S&P 500 has had a positive return in the six months following a midterm election every time, according to Brock Weimer, an analyst at Edward Jones.
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S&P → go → Jones
Some on Wall Street speculate that a Democratic sweep of Congress this time around could lead to more regulations and restrictions on AI development.
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sweep → speculate → development
But Donald Trump would still be president and have the power to veto.
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Trump → have → power
And Wall Street generally prefers split control of Washington, which it sees as offering less risk of transformative policies that could reshape the economy.
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that → prefer → economy
On the winning side of Wall Street Tuesday were stocks of several companies that reported stronger profits for the summer than analysts expected.
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analysts → win → summer
Celanese climbed 4.7 per cent, and DuPont added 8.8 per cent.
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DuPont → climb → cent
Revvity jumped 11.7 per cent for one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 after the life sciences company topped analysts’ expectations and CEO Prahlad Singh said end market conditions are continuing to improve.
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conditions → jump → expectations
Expectations are high for all kinds of companies to continue to deliver big gains in profits as the US economy keeps chugging along, even with high inflation and elevated interest rates.
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economy → continue → inflation
That helped send the S&P 500 to a record high last month.
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That → send → high
An encouraging report on the US job market said Tuesday that employers were advertising more job openings at the end of September than economists expected.
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economists → say → September
That helped push the yield on the 10-year Treasury up to 4.96 per cent from 4.91 per cent late Monday.
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That → push → cent
In the oil market, prices continued to swing.
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prices → continue → market
Brent climbed above $107 per barrel overnight before briefly dropping below $101 in the morning amid continued uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran.
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what → climb → Iran
South Korea’s Kospi dropped 3.6 per cent for one of the world’s sharpest moves following losses for its two tech giants, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
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Kospi → drop → giants
Stocks rose 0.3 per cent in Australia after the country’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the fifth time this year.
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bank → rise → time
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