Global investors on Tuesday digested new data, policy statements, and earnings reports. In Europe, the British FTSE rose 0.76%, the German DAX climbed 1.01%, the French CAC rose 0.8%, and the broad STOXX 600 index climbed 0.75%. In the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) edged up 0.04%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) eked up 0.06%, and the broad S&P 500 (.INX) index rose 0.18%.
Among US stocks in the S&P 500, the biggest losers today were aerospace and defense firm Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), which fell 11.80% at the close due to disappointing earnings results, hospital services firm Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS), down 5.77%, glass producer Corning (NYSE: GLW), down 5.29%, defense and technology firm L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), down 4.43%, and social media giant Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), down 3.92%. The biggest gainers were delivery and logistics giant United Parcel Services (NYSE: UPS), up 6.95% on its impressive earnings beat and guidance increase, semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), up 6.70%, networking firm Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), up 4.55%, health insurance firm Centene (NYSE: CNC), up 4.41%, and food safety firm Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), up 2.94%.
In the Nasdaq, Chinese agriculture technology firm Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD) fell 7.4%, and Chinese tech firm Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) fell 3.78%. Software firm Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS) climbed 3.32% on its earnings beat, and biotech firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN) rose 2.77%. In fixed income markets, the yield on the 1-year US Treasury note ticked up, while the yield on the 30-year bond dipped 0.046%.
In commodities markets, as of press time, the price of international Brent crude oil edged up 0.31%, and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil rose 0.9% to $84.50 per barrel. Gold futures dipped 0.69% to below $1,800, the price of silver slipped 1.53%, platinum fell 3.06%, and palladium slipped 2.26%. Also, coffee futures jumped 2.89%, livestock cattle futures rose 1.62%, and the price of lean hogs dipped 2.16%. In crypto asset markets, buyers took a breather from the rally, as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dipped 0.82%, Ether (ETH) rose 1.96%, Binance Coin (BNB) rose 0.49%, Cardano (ADA) rose 1.74%, and Solana (SOL) slipped 2.4%.