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Investors have been monitoring developments in Ukraine on a daily basis for several weeks. The Russia-Ukraine turmoil has weighed on the market in recent weeks, sending the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY ) down 10% year to date. Investors can look back at previous periods of U.S. wars for a potential gauge of what to expect if the U.S. gets involved in the Ukraine conflict in a significant way. War On Terror: The most recent example of an unexpected U.S. military conflict came during and after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. In the two years following the attack, the U.S. launched large-scale military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the stock market struggled. From Sept. 10, 2001 to Sept 10, 2003, the S&P 500 dropped 7.4% overall. Tech sector stocks were hit particularly hard. The … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Put-Sellers & The Incredible Feb 24th Intraday-Reversal As we noted earlier, today''s stunning rebound in stocks (most notably Nasdaq, which swung from down 4% overnight to close up 3%)… ...was the biggest intraday rebound since The Fed ''saved the world'' in March 2020 . The reversal began at the US cash market open, stalled a little, then exploded higher after President Biden''s sanctions speech was not as harsh as feared. The question is - WTF Happened!!! We offered some preview hints on Tuesday when we noted that market sentiment has barely ever been worse and everyone is hedged-and-wedged... Everyone is hedged for a crash: "we have been averaging $1 Trillion worth of puts per day. Largest on record." - GS pic.twitter.com/zRrpCgbJYZ — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 31, 2022 But, as always, SpotGamma has the detailed answer of what drove today''s shocking swing (and why it may not last) ... On Thursday 2/24 the market opened down nearly 2.5% on news that Russia had invaded Ukraine. Off of that opening low, the S&P500 staged a remarkable 4% intraday rally, moving from a low of 4114 to a high of 4294.

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U.S. indices finished higher as stocks sharply rebounded after falling following the Russian invasion of Ukraine . The Nasdaq composite finished higher by 3.34% to 13,473; The Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ: QQQ ) gained 3.36% to $340.49 The S&P 500 traded higher by 1.50% to 4,288; The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NASDAQ: SPY ) gained 1.50% to $428.30 The Dow Jones composite traded higher by 0.79% to 11,179; The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (NASDAQ: DIA ) finished higher by 0.25% to $332.34 Here are the day''s winners and losers from the … Full story available on Benzinga.com

U.S. markets stabilized and ended higher Thursday after an early swoon brought on by Russia''s invasion of Ukraine. Technology stocks in particular rebounded strongly, erasing an early drop of 3.4% in the Nasdaq and leaving the tech-focused index up 3.3%. The S&P 500 also came back from an early loss and ended up 1.5%. Oil prices had surged earlier but ended with moderate gains. Markets in Europe, whose economy has closer ties to Russia, ended lower as traders worried the conflict could further disrupt supply chains. President Joe Biden announced new sanctions that fell short of what some had suggested.

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 ended sharply higher on Thursday in a dramatic reversal from the start of the session as U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled harsh new sanctions against Russia after Moscow began an all-out invasion of Ukraine.

As dire as the news from Ukraine and Russia is, the selloff in equities sparked by the crisis appears to have already hit bottom. The S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) fell…

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S&P 500 Turns Positive Amid Dip-Buying in Tech After Russia Invades Ukraine

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq turn positive in afternoon trading on Thursday, but the Dow still is down 200 points as market digests fallout from Russia’s military assault in Ukraine. Read Full Story The post Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks claw back sharp losses after Biden details new sanctions on Russia after invasion of Ukraine appeared first on ForexTV .

Russia Invades Ukraine A couple of weeks ago, we shared Russian journalist Anatoly Karlin''s prediction of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and suggested readers hedge in light of it tracking ETFs such as the SPDR S&P 500 Trust (NYSE: SPY ) or the Invesco QQQ ETF (NYSE: QQQ ). Hopefully, some of you took that opportunity to hedge. As we write this, the invasion is happening, and as Anatoly Karlin predicted, Russia has decided to go big. Since Germany had already canceled the Nord Stream 2 pipeline system, which is majority owned by Russian energy company Gazprom (OTC: OGZPY ), and Russia was going to be subjected to sanctions for its Ukraine incursion anyway, it had little to lose. As of early morning Ukraine time, airports across the country had been struck. The tweeter above, Julia Skripka-Serry, is a Ukrainian pharmaceutical securities analyst and investor we''ve corresponded with for years. Footage of the airport pictured above being struck by a Russian cruise missile is in the tweet below.

The S&P 500 could drop quite a bit from the highs, according to the chart.

Stellar 7Y Treasury Auction Concludes Week''s Issuance After two stellar coupon auctions this week, when both the 2Y and 5Y saw record low dealer awards, moments ago the week''s auction cycle concluded with the sale of $50 billion in 7 Year paper in another stellar auction. The high yield of today''s just concluded auction stopped at 1.905%, stopping through the When Issued 1.915% by 1 basis point. And while this was sharply higher compared to last month''s 1.769%, and the highest yield for the tenor since July 2019, it priced in a day when there has been a lot of market chaos, which helped boost demand for the safe haven. The bid to cover of 2.364 was also solid, the highest since November, and well above the six-auction average of 2.304%. The internals, while not nearly as impressive as the week''s prior two auctions, were still remarkable with Indirects awarded 63.85%, the most since December and one of the highest foreign bidder awards on record. And with Directs taking down 23.82%, the most since February 2019, Dealers were left holding just 12.32%, which while not a record low was the fourth lowest going back to 2009.

Investors who have owned stocks in the past year generally have experienced some decent gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust''s (NYSE: SPY ) total return in the past 12 months is 10.3%. But there is no question some big-name stocks performed better than others along the way. Salesforce''s Bumpy Ride: One company that has been a disappointing investment in the past year is customer relationship management software leader salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM ). In the past seven years, Salesforce has been extremely aggressive in ramping up its acquisitions. In 2016 alone, the company completed 12 major acquisitions including a $6.5 billion deal for MuleSoft. In December 2020, Salesforce went even bigger with a $27.7 billion buyout of Slack Technologies . Slack first went public back in June 2019 at an … Full story available on Benzinga.com

"Shark Tank" star and renowned investor Kevin O’Leary has predicted the cryptocurrency industry — which includes Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC ), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH ) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE ) — will become the 12th sector of the S&P 500 Index (SPX) in the next few years. What Happened: O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETFs, made the comments on Twitter. Crypto is going to become the 12th sector of the S&P 500. It’s going to happen over the next few years, watch. — Kevin O''Leary aka Mr. Wonderful (@kevinolearytv) February 23, 2022 Full story available on Benzinga.com