Wall Street is looking ahead to Nvidia earnings after a largely silent two days in the stock market.<\/p>\n
The Dow traded mostly flat during the day, but ended the day 0.3% higher. Same story with the S&P 500, which ended up 0.4%. The Nasdaq also stuck to the breakeven line most of the day, but managed to eke out a 0.4% gain. All three indexes ended the day slightly lower on Monday.<\/p>\n
Small-Caps took the spotlight, though.<\/p>\n
The Russell 2000 Index, which captures moves in the smallest 2,000 stocks, was 0.7% higher near the close on Tuesday after maintaining a lead against other indexes through the day.<\/p>\n
The index is up about 6.64% this month to 2358.51, its largest one-month point and percentage gain since November 2024, according to preliminary Dow Jones Market Data. It has been up for four consecutive months, marking an aggregate gain of 20%, its best four-month stretch in over four years.<\/p>\n
One can perhaps call this the summer of small caps.<\/p>\n
Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the market closes Wednesday, a closely followed event given the influence the tech company has on the stock market.<\/p>\n
Options markets imply a roughly 0.8% swing in either direction for the S&P 500 the day after the results. Nvidia made up roughly 8% of the S&P 500 market cap as of last week, the largest in the index.<\/p>\n
Microsoft is next and accounts for roughly 6.9% of the index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wall Street is looking ahead to Nvidia earnings after a largely silent two days in the stock market.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-25023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}