Crude Oil Up 2%; Siyata Mobile Shares Jump

Benzinga · 10/21 18:50

U.S. stocks traded lower toward the end of trading, with the S&P 500 falling around 0.4% on Monday.

The Dow traded down 0.87% to 42,901.38 while the NASDAQ slipped 0.03% to 18,484.12. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 0.36% to 5,843.72.

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Leading and Lagging Sectors

Information technology shares jumped by 0.4% on Monday.

In trading on Monday, real estate shares fell by 1.9%.

Top Headline

Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NYSE:SAVE) announced that on October 11, it modified its card processing agreement to extend the deadline for its 2025 notes from October 21 to December 23 and the early maturity date from December 31 to March 3.

Equities Trading UP
                       

  • Viad Corp (NYSE:VVI) shares shot up 17% to $41.91 after the company announced it entered into a deal to sell its GES business to Truelink Capital for $535 million.
  • Shares of Construction Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROAD) got a boost, surging 11% to $83.11 after the company issued FY25 revenue above estimates. Also, Construction Partners announced it will acquire Asphalt Inc for a mix of cash $654 million in cash and 3 million in class A common stock
  • Siyata Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:SYTA) shares were also up, gaining 75% to $1.77 after the company announced its next-generation SD7 Ultra series 5G mission-critical push-to-talk cellular radio handsets will be available on T-Mobile’s 5G network.

Equities Trading DOWN

  • Sezzle Inc. (NASDAQ:SEZL) shares dropped 14% to $192.77. Sezzle will release its third quarter results after the market close on Nov. 07.
  • Shares of Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ:INV) were down 7% to $11.60.
  • IGM Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:IGMS) was down, falling 9% to $15.27.

Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded up 2.1% to $70.66 while gold traded up 0.3% at $2,739.00.

Silver traded up 2.4% to $34.040 on Monday, while copper fell 0.6% to $4.3595.

Euro zone

European shares were lower today. The eurozone's STOXX 600 fell 0.66%, Germany's DAX fell 1% and France's CAC 40 fell 1.01%. Spain's IBEX 35 Index fell 0.71%, while London's FTSE 100 fell 0.48%.

Producer prices in Germany fell 1.4% year-over-year in September compared to a 0.8% decline in the prior two months.

Asia Pacific Markets

Asian markets closed mostly lower on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 falling 0.07%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dipped 1.57%, China's Shanghai Composite Index gaining 0.20% and India's BSE Sensex falling 0.09%.

The People’s Bank of China cut its one-year loan prime rate by 25bps to 3.1% at the October fixing.

Economics

No major economic reports are scheduled for release today.

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