Stocks rallied Friday to start November off on a high note as big tech earnings excited the broader market despite a weak jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped over 280 points, while the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite added 0.4% and 0.8%, respectively.
Here's how the market settled to close out the week:
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq Composite Index
On the Earnings Front:
Amazon
For its fourth-quarter, Amazon expects revenue between $181.5 billion and $188.5 billion, representing growth of 7% to 11% annually. CEO Andy Jassy told analysts during Amazon's earnings call that the company also plans to spend about $75 billion on capex in 2024, with the spending "driven by generative AI."
"It is a really unusually large, maybe once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity," Jassy said, adding that shareholders will appreciate that "we're aggressively pursuing it," in the long-term.
Apple
During the quarter, Apple paid a one-time income tax of $10.2 billion to resolve a 2016 case in Ireland.
"We're getting great feedback from customers and developers already and a really early stat, which is only three days worth of data: Users are adopting iOS 18/1 at twice the rate that they adopted 17/1 in the year-ago quarter," CEO Tim Cook told CNBC's Steve Kovach in an interview.
Intel
The semiconductor giant expects fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $0.12 per share on revenue between $13.3 billion and $14.3 billion.
Exxon Mobil
Chevron
Chevron expects to reduce costs by about $2 billion to $3 billion from 2024 through 2026 as part of efforts to streamline its portfolio.
In Economic News:
Private Payrolls grew at their slowest rate since 2020 in October as national employment was impacted by multiple storms in the Southeast and Boeing's
The report noted that 44,000 jobs were subtracted from the manufacturing sector due to the Boeing strike, with the sector declining 46,000 during the month.
"At first glance, October's jobs report paints a picture of growing fragility in the U.S. labor market, but under the surface is a muddy report roiled by climate and labor disruptions," said Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, quoted by CNBC. "While the impacts of these events are real and should not be ignored, they are likely temporary and not a signal of a collapsing job market."