US stocks rebound, cybersecurity sector surges to record highs
US stocks rebound, cybersecurity sector surges to record highs
Publish Date: 2026-05-21 16:09:00
Source Domain: finance.yahoo.com
Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. 00:00 Speaker A Nasdaq pulled it out for the win along with the S&P 500 and the Dow. Kind of a photo finish there. So we got all three in the green. 00:08 Speaker A Let’s check out the intraday price action here and we’ll see if we can get that up. 00:13 Speaker A Here we go. Here’s the Dow. You can see it spent the first half of the day in the red and closed in the green. 00:20 Speaker A Similar story for the Nasdaq, although the game was very small and the S&P 500 just a little bit higher there. 00:26 Speaker A Russell 2000 by the way, really holding on to a quite a bit more of its gains up about 80th of 1%. 00:32 Speaker A And let’s get over to the intraday uh sector leaders here. 00:37 Speaker A utilities finished the day up over 1%. Tech not too far behind up 8/10 of a percent. Healthcare, consumer discretionary, materials behind each of those up more than half a percent. 00:46 Speaker A Energy and staples traded to the downside each off more than 1%. 00:51 Speaker A Quick look at the Nasdaq 100 here. kind of a mixed board. Uh stand out is Walmart, that was down 7%. 00:57 Speaker A and in the mega caps, a little bit more red than green and Nvidia down a little more than 1 and a half percent, although Amazon up more than 1%. 01:04 Speaker A Want to show you what’s going on with semiconductors besides Nvidia and Broadcom there and Intel, we got some decent green from SanDisk up another 10%, Western Digital up five, Micron up four. 01:12 Speaker A But it’s not just chip stocks that have been catching my eye recently. I want to show you what’s been going on with cyber security. 01:17 Speaker A I’m actually writing this up as my chart of the day for Friday morning. You can catch it first thing there. 01:21 Speaker A Here’s the the cyber security heat map. Want to point out that PANW, that’s Palo Alto Networks up 2 and a half% and DDOG, that’s Data Dog up over 2%. 01:32 Speaker A Both of those hit record highs and Crowdstrike which finished the day in the red, well, that’s pretty close to a record high. 01:37 Speaker A Just want to show you what they’ve done over these last six days because it is notable. 01:41 Speaker A Semiconductors kind of flagged, they had a three-day sell-off, uh but in the meantime, software managed to rise and cyber security actually did pretty well here. 01:48 Speaker A Uh, you can see a lot of green over these last few days. 01:51 Speaker A And I just want to show you cyber security and we’re using the CIBR ticker, that’s the First Trust Cybersecurity ETF versus the iShares semi ETF that tracks the uh SOX, the Philly Chip Index. 02:00 Speaker A This is year to date. So no surprise, semiconductors are winning there up over 70%. 02:05 Speaker A Meanwhile, uh cyber is up 15%, but over these last six days, it’s really been a nice come from behind story. You can see uh cyber’s up 8% and I shares uh semi ETF that is uh almost break even but not quite. 02:13 Speaker A So while I would not count out the semiconductor semiconductor, it’s nice to have that come from behind story.
