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Stocks Rise Ahead of U.S. Earnings Season
By
Riva Gold and
Aaron Kuriloff
Updated April 11, 2016 1:15 p.m. ET
U.S. stocks gained Monday ahead of the start of the first-quarter earnings season.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 97 points, or 0.6%, to 17673. The S&P 500 increased 0.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.5%.
The U.S. first-quarter earnings season unofficially begins later Monday with a report from aluminum giant Alcoa. Several large U.S. banks are also scheduled to report earnings this week, including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and Citigroup.
Analysts are projecting weak earnings, with lower oil prices and a stronger dollar taking a toll on corporate profits. Earnings for the S&P 500 are forecast to contract about 8.5% from a year earlier, according to FactSet estimates as of March 31, with particularly downbeat reports expected from the energy sector.
“The corporate earnings outlook is low to flat,” said Oliver Pursche, chief executive at Bruderman & Co. Following a near two-month rally in U.S. equities, “the best word for sentiment right now is probably ‘confused,’” he added.
U.S. oil prices touched $40 a barrel for the first time in two weeks, as the dollar weakened and hopes rose that major producers would reach an agreement to reduce the global crude glut. U.S. oil rose 1.4% to $40.27.
Materials companies were among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500, rising about 1%. Newmont Mining rose 6% as the price of gold gained 1.3% to $1,259 an ounce, near a three-week high.
Alcoa unofficially kicks off U.S. earnings season after markets close Monday. ENLARGE
Alcoa unofficially kicks off U.S. earnings season after markets close Monday. Photo: Reuters
Yahoo shares rose 1.9% after the U.K.’s Daily Mail joined companies interested in acquiring Yahoo’s assets. Shares of Daily Mail & General Trust PLC, the parent company of the Daily Mail, fell slightly.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.3%, led by shares of mining companies and banks.
Shares of Italian banks soared Monday as the government prepared to meet with banks and Bank of Italy executives to agree on the details of an investment fund to help local lenders shed bad loans and recapitalize. Shares in Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, seen as a major beneficiary of the fund, increased nearly 10%.
“There’s a good chance that if this deal goes through, that’ll take some of those bad loans off the balance sheets in Italy and offer them capacity to go and lend and support the economy,” said Mike Bell, a global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
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The Shanghai Composite Index ended 1.6% higher as consumer inflation data heightened expectations of further monetary stimulus in China.
China’s consumer-price index rose 2.3% in March from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, but still came in well below the government’s target ceiling.
Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average ended lower amid concerns that a stronger yen would hurt the competitiveness of exporters. The dollar lost 0.1% against the yen and was recently at ¥107.980 after the yen hit a 17-month high against the dollar earlier in the session.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reiterated that the yen’s recent gains were “one-sided” and caused by speculative trading, noting the country is prepared to take action if necessary.
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