Major stock market indexes recovered a fraction of their Monday losses in early Tuesday trading as the tenor of Covid-19 news continued to fuel investor concerns that the rapidly spreading Delta variant of the virus could hurt economic activity, all while the start of second-quarter earnings season sheds light on the supply shortages starting to cripple certain industries.... [+]After falling 2.1% and 1.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq added back about 0.5% after falling 1.1% Monday—boosted once again by healthcare stocks, including top-performers Neurobo Pharmaceuticals, Immunome and Mediwound, which climbed 45%, 30% and 15%, respectively. Travel and leisure stocks, which led the market's Monday decline, posted only small gains, with Carnival Corp, American Airlines and Norwegian Cruise Lines climbing about 1% each after falling as much as 5%.
Meanwhile, a trio of big industrial companies—appliance-maker Electrolux, paint-supplier PPG and auto-manufacturer Volvo—fell as much as 7% following worse-than-expected earnings as a result of intensifying supply chain issues. Electrolux CEO Jonas Samuelson says the company expects"significant regional" disparities for the rest of the year and warned that industry-wide"supply challenges" should remain"for an extended period of time." about $100 billion in overnight trading, pushing the price of bitcoin down 6% to less than $30,000 by Tuesday morning.
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