US stocks dip; small caps slump

The S&P 500 fell 0.3% in a day of widespread losses, as the number of constituents that dropped outnumbered those that rose by 218.

The Nasdaq 100 had a smaller retreat of 0.2%, while the Russell 2000 tumbled 1.8% in its worst session in over two months.

Most sectors fell. Materials, health care, and consumer discretionary fell more than 1% as Tesla tumbled 6.1%, giving back some of its massive postelection gains. Pockets of strength came from communication services, buoyed by a solid advance from Netflix.

Tyson Foods was a standout performer, up 6.5% in its best day since February 2022 on the strength of its chicken business.

Bonds fell, with 10-year Treasury yields climbing back toward their postelection highs. The US dollar extended its advance, with the Dollar Spot Index up 2.4% since November 5.

Updated to correct sector performance as of 5:22 p.m. 11/12/2024.

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Shares of JetBlue spiked more than 15% midday Wednesday following a Semafor report that the airline is exploring merger partners.

The company has explored Washington’s regulatory temperature around a potential merger with United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Alaska Air, per the report. When Semafor reached out to JetBlue regarding the exploration, it declined to comment.

JetBlue’s attempt to acquire budget rival Spirit was blocked by the Biden administration in 2024.

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Sandisk, Micron dive as Google Research unveils AI algorithm to reduce memory demands

This might be an unfortunately memorable day for the memory trade.

Memory stocks Sandisk, Micron, Seagate Technology Holdings, and Western Digital sank Wednesday after Alphabet’s Google Research group published details of a new algorithm known as TurboQuant.

Per Google’s extremely technical release, TurboQuant is an algorithm that allows for a data technique called “vector quantization” to be used while addressing the issue of so-called “memory overhead,” allowing data in AI models to be compressed without reductions in accuracy or requiring retraining, while reducing the memory storage requirements at data centers.

And that outlook seems to be enough for the market to be sending memory stocks down for the day.

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Fundrise’s venture fund extends rally, trading more than 2 dozen times above asset value

Fundrise Innovation Fund, a publicly traded venture fund that owns stakes in private companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX, is continuing to rally as the gap between the value of its stock price and its underlying assets grows.

Shares of the fund, which uses the ticker VCX, closed at $314.99 on Tuesday and rose to $533 by Wednesday morning — a nearly 70% jump for the day and a more than 1,500% increase in the value of its stock since it went public on March 19.

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

Fundrise’s venture fund, which owns private tech giants like Anthropic and SpaceX, surges as retail investors pile in

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

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