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US equity markets rebounded following a volatile session on Monday (21 March) - Dow up +254-points or +0.74% . Goldman Sachs Group Inc rose +1.18% and JP Morgan Chase & Co +2.13% The broader S&P500 +1.13%, with Consumer Discretionary (up +2.45%) and Communication Services (+2.01%) both rising over >2% to lead ten of the eleven primary sectors higher. Energy (down -0.66%) was the only primary sector not to advance. Tesla Inc rose +7.% pushing its market capitalisation back above >US$1trillion for the first time since January after the electric carmaker opened a plant in Grünheide, Germany. The Nasdaq +1.96%. Big tech names Alphabet Inc (up +2.78%), Meta Platforms Inc (+2.44%) and Amazon.com Inc (+2.10%) all gained more than >2%. Nvidia Corp (down The small capitalisation Russell 2000 %. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s American Depository Receipts (ADRs) rallied +11% after the Chinese e-Commerce company announced late Monday (21 March) that it was boosting the size of its share-buyback program, authorising repurchases of as much as US$25B in shares, up from US$15B. |