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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose to fresh multi-month highs on Wednesday as investors
bet the Federal Reserve would skip raising interest rates later in the day,
while a decline in shares of insurer UnitedHealth dragged down the Dow. .N
At 11:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 0.27% at
34,119.04. The S&P 500 .SPX was up 0.42% at 4,387.19 and the Nasdaq Composite
.IXIC was up 0.56% at 13,649.144.
The top three S&P 500 .PG.INX percentage gainers:
** Stryker Corporation SYK.N , up 5.7%
** Teleflex Incorporated TFX.N , up 5.5%
** Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EW.N , up 5.4%
The top three S&P 500 .PL.INX percentage losers:
** Humana Inc HUM.N , down 13.8%
** Centene Corporation CNC.N , down 8.1%
** UnitedHealth Group Incorporated UNH.N , down 7.3%
The top three NYSE .PG.N percentage gainers:
** Coherent Corp COHR.N , up 19.6%
** Leju Holdings Limited LEJU.N , up 15.4%
** Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA GOL.N , up 11%
The top two NYSE .PL.N percentage losers:
** Altisource Asset Management Corporation AAMC.N , down 23.7%
** Sky Harbour Group Corporation SKYH.N , down 16.1%
The top three Nasdaq .PG.O percentage gainers:
** Sealsq Corp LAES.O , up 134.9%
** WeTrade Group Inc WETG.O , up 80.5%
** Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc GREE.O , up 54.1%
The top three Nasdaq .PL.O percentage losers:
** Cineverse Corp CNVS.O , down 36.4%
** IperionX Limited IPX.O , down 30.1%
** MicroVision Inc MVIS.O , down 29.9%
** Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD.O : up 1.9%
BUZZ - Gains on report Amazon's cloud unit considering its new AI chips
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** NextDecade Corp NEXT.O : up 37.9%
BUZZ - Jumps after TotalEnergies buys 17.5% stake urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N38633N
** UnitedHealth Group Inc UNH.N : down 7.3%
BUZZ - Says non-urgent surgeries rose in Q2; shares fall urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3861ZU
** Estee Lauder Companies Inc EL.N : up 2.6%
BUZZ - Glows up after Berenberg lifts rating to 'buy' urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N386322
** RadNet Inc RDNT.O : down 7.6%
BUZZ - Slides on pricing $225 mln stock offering urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N3860TS
** GigaCloud Technology Inc GCT.O : up 5.9%
BUZZ - Rises on $25 mln share buyback plan urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862AF
** Cineverse Corp CNVS.O : down 36.4%
BUZZ - Plunges on stock-and-warrants offering urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N3860V1
** CrowdStrike Holdings Inc CRWD.O : up 0.2%
BUZZ - Edges higher as KeyBanc initiates with "overweight" rating urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862D6
** Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp DFLI.O : down 8.9%
BUZZ - Announces secondary stock offering, shares down urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862AO
** 2seventy bio Inc TSVT.O : down 12.7%
BUZZ - Down as partner pauses blood cancer therapy study urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862G8
** Kura Oncology Inc KURA.O : down 6.1%
BUZZ - Drops on pricing $100 mln equity offering urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N3860Y7
** Wells Fargo & Co WFC.N : up 0.2%
** Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N : up 0.3%
** Morgan Stanley MS.N : up 0.5%
BUZZ - Banks stocks rise with all eyes on crucial Fed rate decision
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** Plug Power Inc PLUG.O : up 0.5%
BUZZ - Rises on deals with STEF and Avina urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862IQ
** SoFi Technologies Inc SOFI.O : up 2.4%
BUZZ - Rises as BTIG begins coverage with 'buy', sets Street-high PT
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** Elevance Health Inc ELV.N : down 7.0%
** Cigna Group CI.N : down 5.1%
BUZZ - Health insurers fall after UnitedHealth warns of higher medical costs in
Q2 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862MR
** Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc ZBH.N : up 4.3%
** Stryker Corp SYK.N : up 5.7%
** Boston Scientific Corp BSX.N : up 4.4%
** Medtronic PLC MDT.N : up 3.1%
BUZZ - Hospitals, medical device firms rise on procedure recovery hopes
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** Blue Water Biotech Inc BWV.O : up 62.2%
BUZZ - Surges on purchase of six FDA-approved drugs urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862PD
** Lennar Corp LEN.N : up 0.5%
BUZZ - BofA raises homebuilders' price targets ahead of Q2 earnings
urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862QE
** Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc AMRX.N : up 5.0%
BUZZ - Up as FDA approves ready-to-use cancer injectable urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862RN
** MicroVision Inc MVIS.O : down 29.9%
BUZZ - Skids on planned share offering urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N386175
** Catalent Inc CTLT.N : down 1.8%
BUZZ - Falls after Jefferies' downgrade to 'hold' on limited FY24 core growth
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** Barrick Gold Corp GOLD.N : up 0.6%
** Sibanye Stillwater Ltd SBSW.N : up 1.6%
** Gold Fields Ltd GFI.N : up 1.2%
BUZZ - Gold miners gain on bets of Fed rate hike pause urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862UC
** Onto Innovation Inc ONTO.N : down 2.7%
BUZZ - Some chipmakers overbought, Needham slashes ratings to 'hold'
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** Allogene Therapeutics Inc ALLO.O : down 15.7%
BUZZ - Falls on announcement of CFO departure urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862Y3
** Spero Therapeutics Inc SPRO.O : down 1.2%
BUZZ - Names finance head as CEO; shares down urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862YA
** Stitch Fix Inc SFIX.O : down 8.0%
BUZZ - Names Macy's former executive as CEO; SFIX shares fall urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862Z6
** Applied Materials Inc AMAT.O : down 0.5%
BUZZ - Falls after Needham downgrades to "hold" urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862X9
** NeuBase Therapeutics NBSE.O : down 17.8%
BUZZ - Falls on 1-for-20 reverse stock split urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862Z8
** Iteris Inc ITI.O : down 7.2%
BUZZ - Falls after posting wider full-year loss urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3862IK
** Brunswick Corp BC.N : down 1.6%
BUZZ - Reports IT security incident, shares fall urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N386350
** BlackRock Inc BLK.N : up 2.0%
BUZZ - Expects to triple fixed-income ETF assets to $2.5 trln by 2030, shares
up urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N386356
** IPG Photonics IPGP.O : up 13.7%
BUZZ - Gains after Raymond James upgrades to "outperform" urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N386380
** Zynex Inc ZYXI.O : up 9.2%
BUZZ - Rises on $10 mln share buyback plan urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N386367
** BRT Apartments Corp BRT.N : up 1.9%
BUZZ - Up on raising share repurchase program to $10 mln urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N38638W
** SilverBow Resources InC SBOW.N : up 2.6%
BUZZ - Gains after investor calls for sale of company urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N38639K
** HealthEquity Inc HQY.O : down 3.1%
BUZZ - Names James Lucania as CFO; shares fall urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N3863B1
** PayPal Holdings Inc PYPL.O : up 1.0%
BUZZ - Rises after BTIG assumes coverage with 'buy' rating urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N38631B
The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:
Communication Services .SPLRCL up 0.46%
Consumer Discretionary .SPLRCD up 0.17%
Consumer Staples .SPLRCS up 0.70%
Energy .SPNY down 0.66%
Financial .SPSY up 0.59%
Health .SPXHC down 0.85%
Industrial .SPLRCI up 0.44%
Information Technology .SPLRCT up 1.05%
Materials .SPLRCM up 0.30%
Real Estate .SPLRCR up 0.70%
Utilities .SPLRCU up 0.96%
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Pritam Biswas in Bengaluru)
((Pritam.Biswas@thomsonreuters.com))