Stock Market Recap: SanDisk and Cambell Soup Fall Hard

US equity indexes hit a 4 month intraday high today then pulled back to close mixed on the session, The DJIA closed up +41.36 to 13028.16, the S&P 500 closed up +1.28 to 1426.63 and the NASDAQ gave back -12.76 ending the day at 2516.09.

SanDisk
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collapsed 8.08% or $2.62/share to 29.89 after the CEO stated April sales were soft. The world’s leading maker of flash memory cards led the NASDAQ lower on the news.

Cambell Soup Company
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dropped 5.73% or $2.06/share to $33.88 announced its largest drop in 5 years on the heels of not meeting analysts expectations.

Amazon
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– Climbed 7.95% or $6.08/share to $82.55 making it the largest gainer in the S&P500 today after being added to Goldman’s “conviction buy” list.

MasTech Inc
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– rocketed up 13.31% or $1.34/share on a CNBC mention. The installer of DirectTV networks gained the most since July 2004 after Jim Cramer talked about its wind service network.

Oil hit 127.33 and gold added $5.90 to 905.80.

Market Snapshot

Dow

+41.36 13,028.16

NASDAQ

-12.76 2,516.09

S&P 500

+1.28 1,426.63

Economic
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Leading Indicators (Apr): Actual 0.1%, Consensus 0.0%

Core PPI (Apr): Consensus 0.2%, Prior 0.2%

PPI (Apr): Consensus 0.4%, Prior 1.1%

Crude Inventories (Apr): Consensus NA, Prior 176K

Retail Sales ex-auto (Apr): Consensus 0.2%, Prior 0.1%

Initial Claims (05/17): Consensus 372K, Prior 371K

Existing Home Sales (Apr): Consensus 4.85M, Prior 4.93M