Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Dow Jumps Over 600 Points; Kroger Shares Spike Higher

Toward the end of trading Thursday, the Dow traded up 1.84% to 34,649.26 while the NASDAQ rose 0.61% to 15,347.69. The S&P also rose, gaining 1.48% to 4,580.03.

The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 49,573,120 cases with around 805,000 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 34,606,540 cases and 469,720 deaths, while Brazil reported over 22,105,870 COVID-19 cases with 615,020 deaths. In total, there were at least 263,915,360 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 5,245,540 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.


Leading and Lagging Sectors


Real estate shares climbed 3.1% on Thursday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Braemar Hotels & Resorts, Inc. BHR, up 7% and Franklin Street Properties Corp. FSP up 7%.


In trading on Thursday, health care shares rose by just 0.5%.


Top Headline


Dollar General Corporation DG reported better-than-expected earnings for its third quarter on Thursday.

Dollar General reported quarterly earnings of $2.08 per share, beating analysts’ estimates of $2.01 per share. The company’s quarterly sales came in at $8.50 billion, versus expectations of $8.49 billion.

Dollar General said it sees FY21 earnings of $9.90 to $10.20 per share.

 

Equities Trading UP


Duluth Holdings Inc. DLTH shares shot up 18% to $16.03 after the company posted Q3 results and raised FY21 EPS guidance.


Shares of Biofrontera Inc. BFRI got a boost, shooting 32% to $5.73. Biofrontera announced Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent titled 'Illumination for Photodynamic Therapy.'


The Kroger Co. KR shares were also up, gaining 12% to $45.15 after the company reported upbeat Q3 results and raised FY21 adjusted EPS guidance.

Check out these big movers of the day


Equities Trading DOWN

Kirkland's, Inc. KIRK shares tumbled 27% to $15.04 after the company reported worse-than-expected Q3 results.


Shares of Context Therapeutics Inc. CNTX were down 25% to $5.34 after the company announced a private placement of $31.25 million. The placement includes 5 million shares together with warrants to purchase 5 million shares.


Tantech Holdings Ltd TANH was down, falling 58% to $0.6226 after the company priced 21,120,509 share common stock offering at $0.65 per share.


Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded up 0.4% to $65.80, while gold traded down 1.1% to $1,764.10.


Silver traded down 0.1% Thursday to $22.335 while copper rose 1% to $4.2910.


Euro zone

European shares closed lower today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 fell 1.15%, the Spanish Ibex Index fell 1.80% and the German DAX 30 dropped 1.35%. Meanwhile, the London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.55%, French CAC 40 dipped 1.25% and Italy’s FTSE MIB dipped 1.39%.

The Eurozone unemployment rate fell to 7.3% in October, while producer prices rose 5.4% from a month ago in October. The unemployment rate in Italy rose to 9.4% in October from 9.2% in the earlier month, while number of people registered as unemployed in Spain fell by 74,381 to 3.183 million in November.


Economics


Job cuts announced by companies dropped 34.8% from a month earlier to 14,875 in November.


US initial jobless claims increased to 222,000 in the week ending November 27th, versus 194,000 in the prior period.


US natural-gas supplies dropped 59 billion cubic feet last week, the Energy Information Administration said.

Check out the full economic calendar here

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