Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 1.53% to 28834.00 while the NASDAQ rose 1.67% to 9,428.33. The S&P also rose, gaining 1.58% to 3,300.17.
Leading and Lagging Sectors
Health care shares climbed 2% on Tuesday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Phibro Animal Health Corporation PAHC, up 16%, and Aduro BioTech, Inc. ADRO, up 22%.
In trading on Tuesday, communication services shares fell 0.2%.
Top Headline
On Monday, Alphabet Inc GOOGL reported better-than-expected earnings for its fourth quarter, while sales missed estimates.
Alphabet reported quarterly earnings of $15.35 per share, which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $12.53. The company reported quarterly sales of $46.075 billion, which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $46.94 billion.
Equities Trading UP
Myomo, Inc. MYO shares shot up 181% to $17.00 after the company's MyoPro was approved for reimbursement by German health insurer BARMER.
Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. DGLY got a boost, shooting up 62% to $1.5550 after the company announced it has been awarded a three-year contract to supply 5,000 body cameras to its national police force for an expected total of $4 million.
Allot Ltd. ALLT shares were also up, gaining 22% to $11.84 after the company reported upbeat Q4 results.
Equities Trading DOWN
Rockwell Medical, Inc. RMTI shares tumbled 17% to $2.32 after the company priced 3.191 million share common stock offering for gross proceeds $7.5 million.
Shares of EZCORP, Inc. EZPW were down 17% to $5.59 after reporting weak Q1 results.
Lianluo Smart Limited LLIT was down, falling 24% to $1.64 after declining 26.1% on Monday.
Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded up 0.2% to $50.22, while gold traded down 1.7% to $1,555.70.
Silver traded down 0.7% Tuesday to $17.55, while copper rose 1.2% to $2.537.
Euro zone
European shares were higher today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 gained 1.58%, the Spanish Ibex Index rose 1.7%, while Italy’s FTSE MIB Index rose 1.73% Meanwhile, the German DAX gained 1.68%, and the French CAC 40 rose 1.6% while UK shares rose 1.49%.
Economics
The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index rose 5.7% year-over-year for the week ended February 1.
U.S. factory orders rose 1.8% in December, versus a revised 1.2% fall in November.
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