Mid-Day Market Update: Dow Surges Above 16000; JinkoSolar Shares Gain On Q3 Results - JinkoSolar Holding Co (NYSE:JKS)

Midway through trading Monday, the Dow traded up 0.26 percent to 16,002.76 while the NASDAQ declined 0.05 percent to 3,983.93. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.05 percent to 1,799.00.

Top Headline
Tyson Foods TSN reported a rise in its fourth-quarter profit.

Tyson's quarterly profit surged to $261 million, or $0.70 per share, versus a year-ago profit of $181 million, or $0.51 per share. Its adjusted earnings gained to $0.70 per share from $0.55 per share.

Its revenue surged to $8.9 billion from $8.3 billion. However, analysts were estimating earnings of $0.69 per share on revenue of $8.8 billion.

Equities Trading UP

JinkoSolar Holding Co

JKS

shot up 14.78 percent to $33.86 after the company reported its Q3 profit of $1.44 per share and lifted its full-year outlook for solar module shipments.

Shares of Tyson Foods TSN got a boost, shooting up 2.50 percent to $29.49 after the company reported higher Q4 profit.

was also up, gaining 1.56 percent to $54.98 after the company announced withdrawal of proposed offering of convertible notes.

Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of Microsoft MSFT were down 1.40 percent to $37.31 after analysts at Bank of America downgraded the stock from Neutral to Underperform.

SuperValu

SVU

shares tumbled 8.90 percent to $6.2680 after

Goldman Sachs

downgraded the stock from Neutral to Sell and lowered the price target from $8.00 to $6.00.

Twitter TWTR was down, falling 2.71 percent to $42.79 after Wunderlich initiated coverage on the stock with a Sell rating.

Commodities

In commodity news,

oil traded up 0.34 percent

to $94.16, while gold traded down 0.75 percent to $1,277.80.

Silver traded down 1.05 percent Monday to $20.51, while copper fell 0.52 percent to $3.17.

Eurozone
European shares were higher today. The Spanish Ibex Index rose 0.88 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index surged 2.16 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX gained 0.74 percent and the French CAC 40 climbed 0.66 percent while U.K. shares rose 0.45 percent.

Economics

The NAHB housing market index came in at 54 in November, versus a revised reading of 54 in October. However, economists were expecting a reading of 55.

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