Wall Street closed sharply higher on Thursday in a choppy session, powered by mega-cap growth stocks. Markets rebounded from an early session drop, arising out of Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard’s hawkish comments about continuing interest rate hikes. The recovery was led by
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Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday, led by Tesla, Nvidia and other megacap growth stocks in a choppy session ahead of a key jobs report due on Friday.
Except for energy stocks, 2022 has been a very difficult year to find any equities able to perform well in these volatile markets. And high-growth stocks have been hit especially hard.
Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday, led by Tesla, Nvidia and other megacap growth stocks in a choppy session ahead of a key jobs report due on Friday.
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in RH (Symbol: RH), where a total of 10,536 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.1 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 96.3% of RH's ave
U.S. stock indexes rose in choppy trading on Thursday led by Tesla and other growth stocks, with investor focus on Microsoft's forecast cut and comments from a Federal Reserve official ahead of a key jobs report due on Friday.
What happened
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