Dow Jones Futures: President Biden Set To Pick Fed Chief As Market Rally Diverges; Time To Buy Rivian?

Dow Jones futures unfastened connected Sunday evening, on with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The banal marketplace rally diverged past week, with Apple (AAPL) and different megacap techs thriving, which masked immoderate underlying weakness. That comes arsenic President Joe Biden is astir to denote whether helium volition nominate Federal Reserve main Jerome Powell for a 2nd word with ostentation astatine a 30-year high. Finally, Rivian Automotive (RIVN) is consolidating aft the initial-post RIVN IPO surge. Is it clip to bargain this EV startup?

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Apple stock, Amazon.com (AMZN), Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA) and Microsoft (MSFT) drove the Nasdaq composite to grounds highs. The Nasdaq and particularly the Nasdaq 100 are looking extended. But the Nasdaq advance-decline has been weakening. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones and Russell 2000 fell past week arsenic tumbling lipid prices and Treasury yields deed vigor stocks and financials. Blame renewed Covid fears and restrictions, which are besides hitting question names.

Will Biden Nominate Fed Chief Powell For Second Term?

President Biden connected Tuesday suggested helium would denote his Federal Reserve seat information successful "about 4 days," though a White House authoritative aboriginal said a determination would travel earlier Thanksgiving.

Will Biden instrumentality with Fed main Powell, oregon spell with idiosyncratic else, specified arsenic Fed Gov. Lael Brainard?

Stock and enslaved markets intelligibly favour Powell, whose existent word arsenic Fed president ends aboriginal adjacent year.

Fed main Powell is simply a known quantity, and gets precocious marks connected Wall Street for his swift enactment during the coronavirus crash. Now, the Fed is conscionable starting to standard backmost plus purchases with ostentation a large issue. There's speculation that policymakers could measurement up the gait of the Fed taper, possibly arsenic soon arsenic the December meeting. But resurgent Covid cases could derail economical maturation erstwhile again. This is simply a delicate time.

Many observers judge that, astatine slightest connected monetary policy, Fed Gov. Brainard would beryllium rather akin to Powell. But there's ever the unknown. And it's not conscionable policy.

Communicating to fiscal markets is simply a cardinal relation for the Federal Reserve chair, explaining not lone what the cardinal slope is doing now, but what it whitethorn bash arsenic economical trends develop. Powell had immoderate rocky moments connected argumentation and connection aboriginal on, but has grown much deft successful his property conferences. Part of that besides reflects analysts and investors learning however to construe Powell's statements.

A play Fed main prime could beryllium seen arsenic giving banal and enslaved markets much clip to digest it, suggesting idiosyncratic different than Powell. On the different hand, Biden mightiness person wanted to hold until aft the House passed the reconciliation measure connected Friday. That would suggest Biden mightiness beryllium apt to renominate Powell.

One cardinal origin successful favour of Fed main Powell is that galore GOP senators would apt enactment a 2nd term. President Trump picked Powell. Another choice, specified arsenic Brainard, mightiness conflict to get confirmation. However, a fewer Democratic senators person urged Biden to not renominate Powell.

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Tesla, Microsoft and Nvidia banal are connected IBD Leaderboard. Apple banal is connected SwingTrader. MSFT banal is an IBD Long-Term Leader. Tesla banal and Nvidia are connected the IBD 50.

The video embedded successful this nonfiction analyzed the analyzable marketplace rally. It besides discussed Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH) and Louisiana-Pacific (LPX).

Dow Jones Futures Today

Dow Jones futures volition unfastened astatine 6 p.m. ET connected Sunday, on with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures.

Remember that overnight enactment successful Dow futures and elsewhere doesn't needfully construe into existent trading successful the adjacent regular stock market session.

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Coronavirus News

Coronavirus cases worldwide reached 257.42 million. Covid-19 deaths topped 5.16 million.

Coronavirus cases successful the U.S. person deed 48.55 million, with deaths supra 793,000.

Austria announced a nationwide lockdown Friday and acceptable a vaccine mandate, amid dense caller infections successful the state and successful overmuch of Europe. The U.S. is besides experiencing higher cases arsenic radical caput indoors arsenic temperatures drop. Earlier vaccinations besides whitethorn beryllium losing their potency, though they inactive supply beardown extortion vs. hospitalization and deaths. Coronavirus deaths successful the U.S. proceed to inclination lower.

The FDA OK'd Pfizer (PFE) and Moderna (MRNA) coronavirus vaccine boosters for each adults connected Friday. Late Friday, the CDC  gave last support to booster shots. Several states, including California and New York, already had opened up booster shots to each adults, but respective pharmacies had been pursuing national guidelines.

Stock Market Rally

The banal marketplace rally progressively diverged during the week, with big-cap techs masking weakness elsewhere.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 1.4% successful past week's stock marketplace trading. The S&P 500 scale edged up 0.3%. The Nasdaq composite roseate 1.2%, with the Nasdaq 100 up 2.35%. The small-cap Russell 2000 slumped 2.8%

The 10-year Treasury output fell 5 ground points past week to 1.54%, reversing little from a midweek highest of 1.65%. Crude lipid futures tumbled 5.8% to a seven-week low.

Apple banal surged 7% past week, breaking retired of a cup-with-handle base, according to MarketSmith analysis, and hitting a grounds high. Amazon banal popped 4.3%, besides clearing a cup-with-handle base. Nvidia banal changeable up 8.5% connected net aft pausing for respective sessions pursuing a metaverse-led spike. Tesla banal rebounded 10%, reclaiming its 21-day enactment and recouping overmuch of the anterior week's 15% tumble. And Microsoft stock? It roseate a coagulated 1.9% to a caller precocious successful its seventh consecutive play gain.

ETFs

Among the best ETFs, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY) slid 1%, portion the Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT) edged up 0.2%. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) sank 0.9%, adjacent with MSFT banal arsenic a immense IGV holding. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) jumped 3.7%, with NVDA banal a large component.

SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME) plunged 7.2% and Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE) edged down 0.6%. U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) descended 5.7%. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) climbed 1.9%, its seventh consecutive play gain. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) tumbled 5% and the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF) gave up 2.9%.

Reflecting more-speculative communicative stocks, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) skidded 4.4% and ARK Genomics ETF (ARKG) 6.7%, with the second astatine a 52-week low. Tesla banal remains the No. 1 holding crossed ARK's ETFs.

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Rivian Stock

Rivian banal deed a grounds 179.47 intraday connected Tuesday, much than treble the RIVN IPO terms of $78 from Nov. 9. Shares past tumbled 15% connected Wednesday and 15.5% connected Thursday. But with a 4.2% bounce connected Friday, Rivian banal finished down conscionable 1% astatine 128.60 for the week.

Is it clip to bargain RIVN stock? While it's tempting to bargain a red-hot IPO similar Rivian Automotive, investors should hold for immoderate terms find connected a caller issue. Look for an IPO base to form. IPO bases tin beryllium precise short, but the Rivian IPO banal illustration isn't determination yet.

When a Rivian IPO basal forms, look for aboriginal entries. Early entries person respective advantages implicit accepted bargain points, particularly for IPO stocks successful 2021.

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Market Rally Analysis

The bifurcated banal marketplace rally, contiguous for overmuch of 2021, whitethorn beryllium coming back.

Just a fewer weeks ago, the banal marketplace rally looked healthy, with a broad-based advance. Now, the marketplace is simply a spot similar idiosyncratic who has gorged connected junk food, simultaneously stuffed and malnourished. On the 1 hand, Apple, Amazon banal and different tech megacaps are powering higher. On the other, marketplace breadth and respective sectors are struggling.

The Nasdaq composite is present 5.8% supra its 50-day line, conscionable beneath the 6% level signaling it's extended. The Nasdaq 100 is present 7.1% supra its 50-day. That raises the risks of a pullback, with higher likelihood that immoderate specified pullback volition beryllium much serious.

The Nasdaq can turn adjacent much extended and enactment that mode for rather immoderate clip earlier pulling back. In August 2020, the Nasdaq became progressively extended, fueled by Apple and Tesla banal surging, stock divided quality and immense options activity. On Sept. 2, 2020, the Nasdaq closed 11.2% supra its 50-day line. But that marked a top, with a marketplace correction and choppy enactment implicit the adjacent mates of months.

Meanwhile, adjacent arsenic the megacaps are getting extended, the Nasdaq advance-decline enactment has deteriorated considerably, signaling increasing weakness adjacent among galore techs. A fig of caller breakouts, specified arsenic DASH banal oregon SoFi Technologies (SOFI), person fizzled oregon failed implicit the past week.

Also, the Dow Jones and particularly the Russell 2000 person retreated implicit the past 2 weeks, and are starting to determination backmost toward their 50-day lines. Energy and financials are driving those declines, with the XLE and XLF ETFs undercutting their 50-day lines connected Friday.

The S&P 500, arsenic a wide marketplace index, is faring comparatively well. It's close astatine grounds highs portion not being extended.

Perhaps the wide banal marketplace rally volition creaseless retired gracefully, with tech giants pausing portion different areas enactment up. Other scenarios are little inviting. If Tesla banal and different giants' advances assistance the remainder of the market, past the rally volition go highly extended precise fast. Alternatively, if Apple banal and different megacaps retreat solidly with different sectors extending pullbacks, the marketplace rally could witnesser immoderate notable losses. That could beryllium constructive successful the mean term, but not truthful overmuch amusive successful the abbreviated term.

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What To Do Now

While the S&P 500 looks conscionable fine, a marketplace rally that simultaneously looks excessively beardown and excessively anemic makes it hard to consciousness comfy astir the near-term outlook.

It's not a large clip to beryllium adding exposure. Outside of the tech titans, a batch of stocks are struggling. And if the wide marketplace rally pulls back, astir caller buys are going to beryllium underwater quickly.

Investors whitethorn privation to instrumentality immoderate much partial profits to marque it easier to upwind immoderate near-term turbulence, some financially and mentally. Also merchantability losing stocks, oregon humble winners that are giving up the bulk of their gains, particularly successful weakening sectors. Such steps escaped up capital, truthful erstwhile marketplace conditions look intelligibly favorable again, you'll beryllium capable to instrumentality advantage.

Beef up your watchlists and marque definite to formed a wide net. With assemblage rotation returning aft respective weeks of broad-based gains, marque definite you aren't missing retired connected the adjacent assemblage upswing.

Read The Big Picture every time to enactment successful sync with the marketplace absorption and starring stocks and sectors.

Please travel Ed Carson connected Twitter astatine @IBD_ECarson for banal marketplace updates and more.

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