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Author Message   Entrepreneur Kurra Bewarse Username: Entrepreneur Post Number: 3865 Registered: 05-2011 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Monday, January 03, 2022 - 5:24 pm:    Closing Stock Market Summary The major indices had a great start to 2022 on Monday, featuring record closes in the S&P 500 (+0.6%) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.7%). The Nasdaq Composite (+1.2%) and Russell 2000 (+1.2%) tied for the lead with 1.2% gains. The outperformance of the Nasdaq was attributed to a 13.5% gain in Tesla (TSLA 1199.78, +143.00, +13.5%), which reported record Q4 deliveries, and sizable gains in Apple (AAPL 182.01, +4.44, +2.5%), Amazon.com (AMZN 3408.09, +73.75, +2.2%), and NVIDIA (NVDA 301.21, +7.10, +2.4%). Apple became the first U.S. company to reach a $3.0 trillion market capitalization while Amazon and the small-caps may have adhered to the January effect. The latter is a view that beaten-down stocks outperform to begin the year with the conclusion of tax-loss selling pressure. The S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector, which is home to TSLA and AMZN, advanced 2.8%, but it was outdone by the energy sector (+3.1%) amid higher oil prices ($76.05/bbl, +0.76, +1.0%). The financials (+1.2%) and information technology (+1.2%) sectors followed suit, with the former keying off a big jump in longer-dated Treasury yields. The mega-caps, to emphasize, made a huge difference for the large-cap indices since the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index increased just 0.1% and six of the 11 S&P 500 sectors closed lower. The materials (-1.4%), health care (-1.0%), and real estate (-1.0%) sectors each declined by at least 1.0%. Reviewing Monday's economic data: Total construction spending increased 0.4% month-over-month in November (Briefing.com consensus +0.6%) following an upwardly revised 0.4% increase (from 0.2%) in October. Total private construction increased 0.6% month-over-month while total public construction spending decreased 0.2%. On a year-over-year basis, total construction spending was up 9.3%. The key takeaway from the report is the strength seen in new single-family construction, which is a reflection of the persistently strong housing demand amid a scarcity of supply in the existing home market. The preliminary December IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI decreased to 57.7 from a revised final reading of 58.3 (from 57.8) in November. Looking ahead, investors will receive the ISM Manufacturing Index for December and the JOLTS - Job Openings report for November on Tuesday.