Bulls Push Dow to New Highs

The bulls were able to push the major indices
higher after a mixed morning.  Today’s rally was sparked by
an easing in crude prices as well as positive manufacturing data.

June crude futures lost $1.26
to close at $64.46 per barrel. 

June gold futures fell $5.90 an ounce to $677.30
.

Around Europe, France’s CAC 40 Index
led with a 0.49% gain to close at 5,960.04, Germany’s DAX Index
added 0.42% to 7,408.87, and Britain’s FTSE 100 slid 0.46% to
6,419.60..

Today‘s

PowerRatings Heat Map
is beginning to show minor pockets of
bullish price action across the map after Monday’s pullback. 
The Electronics and Drug sectors are continuing to display an
interesting divergence between high PowerRatings stocks and low
PowerRatings stocks.


Stocks in
Motion

Microsoft
(
MSFT |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Against AT&T (full
story
).  MSFT shares rose by 1.6%, T shares added 0.2%.

Archer Daniels Midland
(
ADM |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q3 Profit Rises 4%; Top
Line Grows 25% (full
story
).  ADM shares fell 6.8%.

Comcast
(
CMCSA |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Sees 12% Annual Growth In Cable
Revenues From 2007-09 On Triple Play Efforts (full
story
).  CMCSA shares rose 0.1%.

Sirius
(
SIRI |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q1 Revenue Growth Props Up Bottom
Line Results, But Fails To Beat Estimate (full
story
).  SIRI shares lost 3%.

Circuit City
(
CC |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Plunges As It Withdraws H1’08
Outlook On Weak Sales Trend (full
story
).  CC shares dropped 5.3%.

Automatic Data Processing
(
ADP |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q3 Profit Rises;
Revenue Up 14% (full
story
).  ADP shares rose by 3%.

Under Armour
(
UA |
Quote |
Chart |
News |
PowerRating)
Q1 Profit Rises 14% On Higher Top
Line Results; EPS Matches Estimate; Guides Q2 EPS; Backs FY07 View (full
story
).  UA shares lost 8.5%.

For more stories as they happen, go to our
Breaking News section.

Market Snapshot

Dow

+73.23 13,136.14

NASDAQ

+6.44 2,531.53

S&P 500

+3.93 1,486.30

 

NYSE NASDAQ

Volume

3,301,167,000 2,351,784,000

Advances

1766 1483

Declines

1455 1603

Up Volume

1775 1066

Down Volume

1446 1222

New Highs

110 110

New Lows

42 109


   



Strongest/Weakest Sectors

Strongest Sectors

Weakest Sectors

Morgan Stanley Healthcare Products Index (RXP) Dow Jones Equity REIT Index (DJR)
Amex Networking Index (NWX) Amex Gold Bugs Index (HUI)
Amex Computer Technology Index (XCI) S&P Chemicals Index (CEX)


Economic
News

ISM Index 54.7 vs
51.0 consensus

Pending Home Sales -4.9% vs +0.4%
consensus

Darren Wong

Associate Editor

darrenw@tradingmarkets.com