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New Year’s Rally Resumes On Positive Earnings Reports

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Coming off of a day of digestion that saw US indices shrug off early losses and finish pretty much flat, US equities have been marching forward again this morning. NASDAQ futures are up 0.7% while Dow futures are up 0.2%. Europe is also broadly in the green this morning with the FTSE up 0.3% and the Dax up 0.1%. Hong Kong returned to trading overnight with a 2.3% gain, and the return to trading from Lunar New Year holidays also appears to be helping WTI Crude Oil which is up 1.6%.

A new round of positive earnings reports and other corporate news appears to have helped to ignite today’s rally as well. Tesla Motors ($1.19 vs street $1.13, up 8.3% premarket), Levi Strauss ($0.34 vs street $0.29, up 6.6% premarket) beat expectations overnight along with IBM, CSX, Lam Research, Comcast and others. MasterCard, Visa and Intel are set to report results later today. In addition, Chevron announced a share buyback and a dividend increase ahead of its quarterly report tomorrow.

Economic news has also been supportive this morning. US Q4 GDP (2.9% vs street 2.6% and previous 3.2%), initial jobless claims (186K vs street 205K), and durable goods orders (5.6% vs street 2.5%), all came in better than expected. US new home sales are due at 10:00 am EST. Tomorrow brings US Core PCE inflation, personal income/spending, and pending home sales.  

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