Taking a breather after yesterday's >1% gains

The US major stock indices are taking a breather after yesterday's > 1% gains.

  • The S&P is trading down -1.0 point or -0.02%
  • The Nasdaq is trading down -1.3 points or -0.01%
  • The Dow is trading unchanged.

The US yields are higher but off highs for the day:

  • two-year 2.05%, up 0.6 basis points. The high reached 2.0557%
  • five-year 2.41%, up 0.7 basis points. The high reached 2.4214%
  • 10 year 2.605%, up 1.4 basis points. The high reach 2.618%
  • 30 year 2.8809%, up 2.4 basis points. The high reached 2.896%

Some overachievers in early trading:

  • Netflix +0.57%
  • Deutsche Bank +0.76%
  • Alibaba +0.67%
  • Intel +0.54%
  • Caterpillar +0.66%
  • Visa +0.61%
  • AMD +1.56%
  • Morgan Stanley +0.65%

Some underachievers as the day gets underway:

  • Goldman Sachs -0.69%
  • Boeing can go down too after a surge higher recently. It is down -1.13%
  • Gilead is down -0.44%
  • Twitter is down -1.30%
  • Tesla is down my 0.77%
  • Amazon is down -0.35%. Yesterday Amazon stock fell despite the big gains.