The DJIA is up triple digits, as Wall Street awaits a speech from Fed Chair Janet Yellen
As Wall Street gears up for
Fed Chair Janet Yellen's impending speech, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has raced to a triple-digit lead. Helping Dow stocks higher is a bounce in oil prices, with July-dated crude futures last seen up 2.4% at $49.77 per barrel -- boosted by a weaker dollar and attacks on oil infrastructure in Nigeria. Meanwhile, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, and Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart each speculated that last Friday's
dismal jobs report could delay the central bank's next interest rate hike beyond June -- though both Bullard and Lockhart would not rule out a July liftoff.
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Among the stocks with notable call volume is
Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA), as the contracts are running at 1.5 times the usual intraday rate. Sparking the action is
encouraging data on the drugmaker's lung cancer treatment, Brigatinib. At last check, however, ARIA stock is down 2.6% at $8.75.
One of the top stocks on the Nasdaq today is biotech
Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:JUNO), on the heels of
upbeat drug data. Currently, the shares have soared 6.7% at $46.85 -- on track for their highest settlement price of 2016.
One of the worst-performing stocks on the Big Board is
Barracuda Networks Inc (NYSE:CUDA), which has surrendered one-tenth of its value to trade at $15.72. The tech stock's struggles can be traced to
a downgrade to "underperform" from "market perform" at JMP Securities.
The
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is up 0.3 point, or 2.4%, at 13.79.
Today's put/call volume ratio on the
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) is 1.34, with puts outstripping calls. At last check, SPY has gained 1 point, or 0.5%, at $211.26.
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