Stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) open Thursday higher, continuing their recovery from Tuesday's CPI data-driven sell-off. Yahoo Finance Senior Markets Reporter Jared Blikre breaks down the market action, taking a closer look at small-cap stocks (^RUT, IWM), Treasury yields, and semiconductor stocks' year-to-date performances.
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Editor's note: This article was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
Video Transcript
BRAD SMITH: Well, we did it again. That is the opening bell on Wall Street. You're taking a look at the NYSE where Palmer Square is ringing the opening bell up on the podium. PSBD is the ticker symbol there. And then, Tevogen Bio with the funfetti in Midtown Manhattan at the NASDAQ.
All right. Great, great bunch of folks up there. All right. Let's take a look at how things open up here on the day. It looks like we're going to open up higher across the board. The NASDAQ is calibrating. But taking a look at the Dow and the S&P 500, green on the screen. Let's go straight to Yahoo Finance reporter Jared Blikre at the Interactive. Jared, what are you seeing?
JARED BLIKRE: Hey, Brad. We're looking at another bump up. We had some decent gains yesterday, but that was coming off of a nasty, nasty loss, the worst in terms of small caps, for a couple of years. And here's the small caps up another [CLEARS THROAT] excuse me, 1% today. Here's over the last three days.
So you can see-- you can still see they're down about 1% over this time frame. Have not quite climbed, clawed back all of those losses. But I want to check on the bond market as well. We are seeing the 10-year T-note yield down a bit, down 6 basis points. So let me just show you a line chart so you can see.
This is the price action this year, and we are off of our highs a little bit. But the trend has been up. I've been talking about that quite a bit. I also want to check in on the semiconductors. If I have time, I'm going to go through some heat maps here. But over the last year to another record high only yesterday, I believe, up 46%.
One of the sectors I've also been tracking are the transports. And it's interesting because in Dow Theory, you want to see the transports confirm what's happening with the industrials. But here, I'm looking at the Dow Transports in purple compared to IYT, which is the iShares Transports ETF.
You can see this one here, which has a high weighting to Uber, Uber is its number one component that has been hitting record highs. That is off the charts here. That is at a record high.
While the regular transports, they are just lingering below those highs. So it makes you wonder if Uber should be part of the Dow Transports, but that's a conversation for another day. I want to check out the sector action. Real estate is flying high maybe because of that reprieve we're seeing in the bond market.
That's up over 1%. In a distant second is materials, followed by utilities and staples. So for the most part, the winners today are in the defensive sectors. Now taking a look at the NASDAQ 100, we're seeing more red than green in the mega caps. We do have Alphabet down about 2%.
Apple down half a percent. But Meta is up 1%, just about. And Tesla up about 1.5%. I did want to check on the semiconductors. This is our heat map.
This is just what's happening today. Arm up another 5%. Let me show you the year-to-date totals here. Just a little bit halfway into February and we're seeing some incredible, incredible moves.
There's SMCI. That's up 236%. Arm up 77%. Then a distant third, you get Nvidia up almost 50%. Taiwan Semi, ASML up in the 20s. So, the list goes on, but we have seen a lot of these laggard chip stocks just catch up to Nvidia, and even surpass some of those totals that we've seen.
RACHELLE AKUFFO: I appreciate you breaking down all that sector action as well for us, our very own Jared Blikre.
