Mid-Morning Market Update: Markets Mixed; Coach Profit Misses Street View - Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD)

Following the market opening Wednesday, the Dow traded down 0.19 percent to 16,383.07 while the NASDAQ surged 0.12 percent to 4,230.82. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.02 percent to 1,844.15.

Top Headline
Coach COH reported downbeat fiscal second-quarter profit.

Coach's quarterly net income fell to $297.4 million, or $1.06 per share, versus a year-ago profit of $352.8 million, or $1.23 per share.

Its revenue declined 5.6% to $1.42 billion. However, analysts were expecting a profit of $1.11 per share on revenue of $1.48 billion.

Equities Trading UP

Brinker International

EAT

shot up 6.40 percent to $49.68 as the company reported upbeat FQ2 earnings.

Shares of Textron TXT got a boost, shooting up 7.51 percent to $38.81 after the company reported a 13% rise in its fourth-quarter income.

Nuance Communications

NUAN

was also up, gaining 6.55 percent to $15.86 after the company lifted its first-quarter forecast.

Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of Penn West Petroleum PWE were down 10.57 percent to $7.36 after the company issued operational update for the fourth quarter and 2013.

Advanced Micro Devices

AMD

shares tumbled 10.55 percent to $3.73. AMD projects Q1 revenue to drop 13% to 19% versus the fourth quarter.

Coach COH was down, falling 7.12 percent to $48.81 after the company reported downbeat fiscal second-quarter profit.

Commodities

In commodity news, oil

traded up 0.91 percent

to $95.83, while gold traded down 0.10 percent to $1,240.50.

Silver traded down 0.05 percent Wednesday to $19.86, while copper fell 0.39 percent to $3.34.

Eurozone

European shares were

mostly higher

today. The Spanish Ibex Index dropped 0.36 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index rose 0.01 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX surged 0.17 percent and the French CAC 40 jumped 0.31 percent while U.K. shares gained 0.03 percent.

Economics
The MBA reported that its index of mortgage application activity rose 4.70% in the week ended January 17.

The ICSC/Goldman Sachs Retail Chain Store Sales Index declined 1.9% in the week ended Saturday versus the earlier week.

The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index fell 0.2% in the first two weeks of January from December.

The Treasury is set to auction 4-week bills.

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