- Top laggard Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3x Shares gave up $1.16, or 10.29% yesterday IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF had a negative day yesterday (down 0.039%).
- Asia-Pacific markets are in session with varied performances.
Ahead of today's session: markets had an interesting day yesterday; Nasdaq gained 1.65% and closed at 13,556. S&P 500 ended the session at 4,378.41 after a 1.15% gain.
US markets are set to open today in around 9 hours. In the meantime, Asia-Pacific markets are currently mixed so far this session. European markets closed higher yesterday whilst CAC is up by 0.43%, hitting 7,215.58.
The earnings season is coming to an end and General Mills Inc & BlackBerry Limited have release their reports.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as highly important Consumer Confidence data from United States beat analyst expectations of 104 with a reading of 109.7. United States Core Durable Goods Orders improved upon its previous reading of -0.6% with a new data release of 0.6%.
Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States New Home Sales (May) released yesterday at 14:00 UTC with a figure of 763,000, while the previous figure was 680,000.
Yesterday's gains have given market bulls further impetus to expect strong macro data going forward, such as United States Crude Oil Inventories is projected to outperform its last figure with 1.42 million, having previously been at -3.83 million. The figure will be published today at 14:30 UTC.
Also worthy of note, tomorrow at 12:30 UTC data for United States GDP will be released, with an expected decline to 1.4 from the preceding figure of 2.6. Tomorrow at 12:30 UTC data for United States Initial Jobless Claims will be released, with an expected decline to 266,000 from the preceding figure of 264,000.
While most assets did well yesterday, some did better than others as ETFMG Sit Ultra Short ETF trades at $48.53 having gained 0.33%.
Yesterday's bullishness contained stragglers as Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3x Shares closed at $10.11 having dropped 10.29%. IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF had a negative day yesterday (down 0.039%).
IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF has been pretty quiet for the last a month, trading mostly flat and moving by only 0.02 cents on average.
Continuing its a 3 day bearish run (-12 cents), Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3x Shares showed losses yesterday. The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 11.9 cents per share on Thursday, March 23rd and was paid on Wednesday, June 28th — thereby generating a yield of 4.71% for all eligble investors.