US stocks closed slightly lower on Monday: NVIDIA up nearly 6%, Ali up more than 9%

Use wechat scan QR code to share with friends and circle of friends Monday, us time, < a target = "_ blank" href=" https://news.163.com/news/search?keyword=%E7%BE%8E%E8%82%A1 "> US stocks < / a > the three major stock indexes closed down slightly. Trading in U.S. stocks was light ahead of the much watched inflation data and first quarter corporate results.

Dow Jones index < / a > closed at 33745.40, down 55.20 points, or 0.16%; Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at 4127.99, down 0.02%; Nasdaq composite index closed at 13850, down 0.36%. In the last trading day, both the Dow and the standard index reached record highs. Apple < a target = "_ blank" href=" https://news.163.com/news/search?keyword=%E8%82%A1%E4%BB%B7 "> share price < / a > fell 1.3% after Apple plans to install built-in speakers and cameras for video conferencing on its Apple TV streaming device, according to a report by Bloomberg. Microsoft's shares rose 0.02% after it announced it would buy nuance communications, a speech recognition company, for $16 billion, up nearly 16%. The acquisition of nuance communications is Microsoft's biggest acquisition since it acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.

NVIDIA < / a > shares rose 5.6% to launch its first server CPU. Earlier, the chip giant said its revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2022 would exceed previous expectations and expected that its chips would continue to be in short supply for most of this year. shares of Tesla rose 3.7% to above $700 after investment bank canaccord genuity upgraded its stock rating to "buy" and raised its target share price to $1071 on the basis of battery innovation. Alibaba shares rose 9.3% after the company said it did not expect the antitrust crackdown to have a substantial impact on it. Specifically speaking, the performance of technology leading stocks is as follows: the performance of chip leading stocks in US stocks is as follows: the performance of major Chinese concept stocks listed in the US is as follows: US stocks have been relatively calm recently, with the rise and fall of the standard index less than 1% for five consecutive trading days. With the rising optimism of investors, US < a target = "_ blank" href=" https://news.163.com/news/search?keyword=%E8%82%A1%E5%B8%82 "> the volatility of the stock market has dropped to the pre epidemic level. In the past four days, the CBOE volatility index, a measure of Wall Street's fear, has fallen below 18, the lowest level since February 2020. Chris Larkin, managing director of trading and investment products at e-trade, an investment firm, said: "with the stock market hitting new highs, it's not surprising that it has been stable to some extent in the near future. All eyes will probably focus on the CPI data to be released tomorrow as our inflation level. Of course, we are about to enter the earnings season, which may become a catalyst for market trends in the next few weeks. " the first quarter corporate earnings season will start this week, the market is expected to have a wide range of good news, and the U.S. stock market will rise due to the economic recovery. Many of the largest U.S. banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, will report their first quarter results as of March 31 this week. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated on Sunday that the Federal Reserve would like to see the inflation rate rise to more than 2% over a long period of time before taking action to raise interest rates. he added that with the accelerated deployment of the new vaccine and strong financial support, the US economy seems to be at a turning point. investors will also pay close attention to US President Biden's efforts to promote an important infrastructure proposal called the American jobs plan. Biden and other Democrats pledged in the 2020 election to significantly improve U.S. infrastructure. (Liu Chun)