Nasdaq-100 rises 0.9% as Microsoft gains 7%; US jobs report Fri 6 Nov
Closes for Wednesday 4 November: the Nasdaq-100 rose 0.91% and the S&P 500 rose 1.58%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.
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The Nasdaq-100 closed Wednesday 4 November at 28,437.17, up 256.91 points or 0.91%. The S&P 500 rose 1.58% to 7,688.62, compared with Tuesday’s close.
Largest US stocks
Of the eight mega-cap stocks we follow (Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Broadcom and Tesla), five closed higher on Wednesday. Microsoft gained the most, 6.68% to $555.80, and Tesla fell the most, 3.34% to $385.19.
Futures, crypto and the euro
E-mini S&P 500 front-month futures closed at 7,720.50 on Wednesday. WTI crude futures closed at $88.12 a barrel and Comex gold futures at $4,073.00 an ounce on Wednesday. Bitcoin ended the UTC day of 3 November at $77,345, up 0.87%. Ether ended the same day at $2,273, up 1.06%. The European Central Bank’s euro reference rate was $1.1267 per euro on 4 November.
Rates
The 10-year Treasury yield was 4.95% and the 2-year 4.61% on 3 November. The 10-year real yield was 2.65% (3 November) and 10-year breakeven inflation 2.26% (4 November). The effective fed funds rate was 3.88% on 3 November, inside the Fed’s 3.75–4.00% target range.
What a normal day looks like
The S&P 500’s 20-day realized volatility, from daily closes to 4 November, was 12.9% a year. At that rate one standard deviation of daily movement is about ±62 points (7,688.62 × 12.9% ÷ √252). About two days in three have historically stayed inside that range; realized volatility looks back, not forward, and real markets have fatter tails than this arithmetic assumes.
New filings
Filed with the SEC since our last note, as listed on EDGAR:
- Microsoft Corp. (4 November): Form 8-K: Item 8.01 Other Events; Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Coming up
US releases and decisions scheduled in the seven days from Thursday 5 November, from the official calendars:
- Thu 5 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Weekly jobless claims (Department of Labor).
- Fri 6 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Employment Situation (NFP & unemployment rate) (BLS).
- Tue 10 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Consumer Price Index (CPI) (BLS).
- Thu 12 Nov, 08:30 AM ET: Weekly jobless claims (Department of Labor).
- Some prop firms restrict trading around these releases; each firm’s rule and its source are on our prop-firm pages.
Sources
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Sources: Yahoo Finance daily closes, delayed (^NDX, ^GSPC, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, META, AVGO, TSLA, ES=F, CL=F, GC=F, BTC-USD, ETH-USD); FRED (DGS10, DGS2, DFII10, T10YIE, EFFR, DFEDTARL/U); ECB euro reference rates; SEC EDGAR; official release calendars (Federal Reserve, BEA, BLS, Department of Labor). The daily range is our calculation from 20-day realized volatility of S&P 500 closes. General market information, not investment advice.
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