Morgans Financial Limited

US equity markets mixed as investors waded through the latest round of corporate earnings releases and eyed results from the first of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cohort of mega-capitalisation stocks after the closing bell of tonight’s AEST session - Dow rose +179-points or +0.40%. Amgen Inc (up +3.32%) and Merck & Co Inc (+2.90%) were the leading performers in the 30-stock index. Nvidia Corp (down -2.54%) was the weakest Dow component overnight.