Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you the first information about tomorrow and the last information about today. Sign up for free to receive it straight to your inbox. Here’s what CNBC television producers were looking at Thursday and what they’re looking at for Friday’s session. The Nasdaq 100 fell 3.8% in four days. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3.6% in four days. The Russell 2000 fell 3.5% in four days. The Dow 30 fell about 3% in four days. The S&P 500 index fell 2.9% in four days. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 2.6% in four days. All are still within 10% of their 52-week highs, with the closest being the NYSE Composite. This is about 4% from the high on November 12th. Thursday’s market saw its biggest volume since tariff week in early April. Past 5 Days .IXIC 5D Mountain NASDAQ Composite Index Worst sector so far this week… Consumer Discretionary stocks fell 4.9% in 4 days. Walmart reported Thursday morning. The company said America’s great consumers are selective when shopping. Walmart won on the bottom line. The stock closed up 6.5% and is up 2% from its October 16 high. The State Street SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) is down 3.4% this week. This is 13% from the September 17th high. We will keep a close eye on it. There are 35 days left until Christmas. Home Depot was the Dow’s worst performing stock this week. The stock is down 8.3% week-to-date and is down 24% from its 52-week high in November last year. Boeing fell 8% in one week. The stock is down 26% from its June high. Salesforce is down 7.5% this week. The stock price is up nearly 40% from its December 2024 high. Walmart was the best performer on the Dow this week, followed by Johnson & Johnson, which rose 3.6% to a new high today, and Merck, which rose 2.2% so far this week. Merck is up 9.6% from its December 2024 high. .DJI 1M Mountain Dow average stock price for the past month. The virtual currency Bitcoin has currently fallen more than 20% in one month. It fell below $86,000 on Thursday. Both Ether and Solana have fallen 28% in one month. Michael Saylor’s strategy isn’t working. The stock is down nearly 39% this year and 67% from its 52-week high in November of last year. Cleanse Park is up 59% from last month’s 52-week high. Coinbase is down 46% from its July high. Defense The Israeli Ministry of Defense signed a multibillion-dollar contract on Thursday to expand the Iron Dome program, which protects Israel from short-range missiles. Rafael, owned by the Israeli government, is partnering with RTX and helping build the interceptor. RTX stock is up 7.5% over the past month and 4.7% from its October high. Also on Thursday, the Israeli government announced it would begin further investments in transforming the country’s defense manufacturing industry. The government said it needed to rely more on domestic military industry for large-scale systems. It’s unclear exactly which weapon system we’re talking about, but the announcement comes a day after the US announced it would sell F35s to Saudi Arabia. Shares of Israeli defense company Elbit fell 2.7%. It is up 11.6% from its high in early October. The VanEck Israel ETF (ISRA) is down 10% from its 52-week high hit last week. Nvidia: After stock price fell 3.15% on Thursday, the day after earnings, CNBC will feature Frank Holland’s show on “Worldwide Exchange” at 5 a.m. Nvidia stock is currently up 15% from its October 29 high. Nvidia rose 5% at one point on Thursday morning, but fell in the morning. AMD fell nearly 8%. The stock is up 23% from its October high. The popular SMH Chip ETF fell 4.2% today. This is 13% from the October 29th high. NVDA 5D Mountain Nvidia Shares in the Last 5 Days
