The stock market held strong gains in afternoon trading Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite poised to end the week with solid weekly gains. Top gainers in the Dow Jones today, with gains of at least 5%, included Salesforce.com, Goldman Sachs and Boeing.
Airbnb, along with software stocks like Workday, Okta and Datadog, led the Nasdaq 100.
While the Dow Jones delivered plenty of bullish gainers Friday, few, if any, stocks in the blue-chip index are actionable. UnitedHealth Group is one of the better performing stocks in the Dow Jones, but it slipped below its 50-day moving average after three straight gains. Shares were down nearly 2% on a weak day overall for managed care firms.
U.S. Stock Market Today Overview |
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| Index | Symbol | Price | Gain/Loss | % Change |
| Dow Jones | (0DJIA) | 31331.31 | +653.95 | +2.13 |
| S&P 500 | (0S&P5) | 3889.16 | +93.43 | +2.46 |
| Nasdaq | (0NDQC ) | 11523.64 | +291.45 | +2.59 |
| Russell 2000 | 174.21 | +4.38 | +2.58 | |
| IBD 50 | 27.29 | +0.63 | +2.36 | |
Last Update: 2:48 PM ET 6/24/2022 |
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Also in the Dow Jones, Johnson & Johnson recaptured its 50-day moving average Thursday and continued higher Friday, up 1%. It's forming a double-bottom base with a 181.84 buy point.
After climbing above its 10-day moving average Thursday, the Nasdaq composite gapped above its 21-day exponential line and a held a gain of 2.6% in late trading. The S&P 500 rallied 2.5% and the Dow Jones industrials jumped 2.1%. Volume on the NYSE and Nasdaq was slightly lower compared to the same time Thursday.
Even with the strong gains, advancing stocks on the Nasdaq only beat decliners by 2.5-to-1. Breadth was much better on the NYSE, with winners beating losers by around 6-to-1.
At the New York Mercantile Exchange, WTI crude oil futures settled at $107.62 a barrel, up 3.2%. The 10-year Treasury yield added 5 basis points to 3.12%.
In economic news, new-home sales in May came in much better than expected, rising nearly 11% to 696,000. That was much higher than the 587,000 consensus. New-home sales in April got an upward revision to 629,000 from an initial estimate of 591,000. The strong housing data fueled a 2% gain in the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF was one of the S&P 500's top performing sectors, up more than 3%. Top holding Berkshire Hathaway bounced of lows, rising more than 3%, but it's still on a downtrend, stuck below its 10-week and 40-week moving averages.
Outside The Dow Jones
IBD's trucking industry group was one of the day's top gainers, up more than 5%. But it was mostly because of a big gain for small cap USA Truck, which surged more than 100% after logistics firm DB Schenker agreed to buy the firm for 31.72 a share.
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Oil drillers also did well. Nabors Industries bounced off its 200-day moving average, rising 12%. So did Valaris, which jumped 5%.
Zendesk also made a nice move, up nearly 30%, after a group of buyout firms agreed to acquire the enterprise software stock for $10.2 billion.
Department store operators like Dillard's and Macy's also outperformed, lifting the the group to a gain of around 5%. And hotel operators like Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt led the lodging group to a gain of more than 5%.
Breakout Watch
Chef's Warehouse soared out of a double-bottom base with a 37.23 entry. Shares jumped 10%. AstraZeneca is another stock vying for a breakout from a double-bottom base.
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A key feature to look for in the double-bottom base is that the second leg down should undercut the first leg. This serves to shake out sellers and can pave the way for a powerful breakout. But breakouts need a healthy market to succeed, and stock indexes still face overhead supply issues as they climb off lows.
Inside the MarketSmith Growth 250, which only houses 131 stocks currently, coal producer Consol Energy climbed above its 50-day moving average, but volume was light and gains faded a bit after Thursday's heavy-volume decline.
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