Stock market today: Equities attempt rebound ahead of earnings season
US stocks were mixed on Monday, with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
climbing almost 400 points while the
Nasdaq 100
declined by about half a percent. The
S&P 500
closed slightly positive.
Stock market investors are attempting a rebound from a monthlong decline as they grapple with
surging bond yields.
US Treasury yields have been fast approaching the psychologically important 5% level and surged after last week's strong December jobs report release.
The potential catalyst for a rally could be the fourth-quarter earnings season, which officially kicks off Wednesday with the major US banks reporting results before the close.
David Kostin, a strategist at Goldman Sachs, said he expects the solid corporate earnings growth from 2024 to spill over into 2025 and is
forecasting overall profit growth of 11%.
Tech stocks were dinged on Monday after the Biden administration
released a new set of AI chip export rules
in an ongoing bid to limit China's and Russia's access to the technology.
Shares of
Nvidia
declined by about 2%. That company was also hit by
a report
from The Information that said there are some delays for its next-generation Blackwell chips due to technical glitches that cause the GPU to overheat.
Here's where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. closing bell on Monday: