Toward the end of trading Wednesday, the Dow traded down 0.56% to 30,005.91 while the NASDAQ fell 2.04% to 12,326.09. The S&P also fell, dropping 1.01% to 3,664.95.
The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 15,172,600 cases with around 286,330 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 9,735,850 confirmed cases and 141,360 deaths, while Brazil reported over 6,674,990 COVID-19 cases with 178,150 deaths. In total, there were at least 68,321,800 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with over 1,559,700 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Leading and Lagging Sectors
Industrials shares fell by just 0.1% on Wednesday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included HC2 Holdings, Inc. HCHC, up 15%, and American Woodmark Corporation AMWD, up 9%.
In trading on Wednesday, information technology shares dipped 1.9%.
Top Headline
Campbell Soup Company CPB reported stronger-than-expected earnings for its first quarter, but issued weak guidance for the second quarter.
Campbell Soup reported quarterly earnings of $1.02 per share, beating analysts’ estimates of $0.91 per share. The company’s sales came in at $2.34 billion, versus expectations of $2.32 billion. The company also raised its quarterly dividend from $0.35 to $0.37 per share.
Campbell Soup said it expects Q2 adjusted earnings of $0.81 to $0.83 per share on sales growth of 5% to 7% year over year.
Equities Trading UP
Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc. GLSI shares shot up 585% to $35.63 after the company announced a poster presentation of five-year data for its GP2 Phase IIb clinical trial. The company reported data showing 0% breast cancer recurrences following surgery and Herceptin treatment over median 5 years of follow-up.
Shares of Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RCKT got a boost, shooting 75% to $56.05 after the company announced preliminary data from its open-label, Phase 1 clinical trial of its AAV-based gene therapy candidate RP-A501 for the treatment of Danon Disease, showing the gene therapy was generally well tolerated and provided early evidence of clinical benefit. The company also announced a $175 million public offering of common stock.
DoorDash Inc DASH shares were also up, gaining 75% to $178.01. DoorDash made its public debut on Wednesday afternoon, opening at $182 after being priced at $102 per share.
Equities Trading DOWN
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. PSTI shares tumbled 41% to $6.77 after the company said following interim review of dataset from the pivotal Phase 3 study of PLX-PAD in critical limb ischemia, the independent Data Monitoring Committee said the study is unlikely to meet the primary endpoint by the time of the final analysis.
Shares of Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd.. SINO were down 38% to $2.38 after the company reported pricing of $4.8 million registered direct offering priced at-the-market.
Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. ATOS was down, falling 38% to $0.8913 after the company reported pricing of $20.0 million underwritten public offering.
Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded up 0.1% to $45.66, while gold traded down 1.6% to $1,844.50.
Silver traded down 2.5% Wednesday to $24.13 while copper rose 0.4% to $3.5130.
Euro zone
European shares closed mostly higher today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 rose 0.32%, the Spanish Ibex Index rose 0.09%, while Italy’s FTSE MIB Index fell 0.38%. Meanwhile, the German DAX 30 gained 0.47%, French CAC 40 fell 0.25% and London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.08%.
The eurozone GDP rose 12.5% quarter-over-quarter during the third quarter, but declined 4.3% year-over-year. Spain's industrial production declined 1.6% year-over-year in October. German trade balance surplus increased to €18.2 billion in October.
Economics
The number of job openings rose by 158,000 to 6.652 million in October.
US wholesale inventories increased 1.1% for October.
US crude oil supplies gained 15.19 million barrel last week, the Energy Information Administration reported.
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