Dow closes at another record high as chip stocks, retail data support
Dow ends at record peak for fourth session in five
TSMC gains after forecasting Q4 revenue jump
Travelers, Blackstone at record closes after Q3 profit beats
Elevance Health biggest dip in 4.5 years on profit forecast cut
Indexes: Dow up 0.37%, S&P 500 down 0.02%, Nasdaq up 0.04%
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By David French
Oct 17 (Reuters) -The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced onThursday to its fourth record close in the last five sessions, as stronger-than-expected monthly retail sales indicated a robust U.S. consumer and TSMC's upbeat forecast buoyed chipmakers' stocks.
Theother main Wall Street benchmarks were largely unchanged, as theS&P 500 dipped to a fractional loss andthe Nasdaq Composite eked out a tiny win.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co 2330.TW, the world's largest contract chipmaker, beat market estimates for profit and forecast a jump in fourth-quarter revenue, driven by demand for artificial intelligence chips.
The chipmaker's U.S.-listed shares TSM.N soared 9.8%, while artificial intelligence-trade favorite and TSMC customer Nvidia NVDA.O gained 0.9%.
The optimism spread to other chip stocks, sending the broader Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index .SOX 1% higher.
Fresh U.S. data confirmed healthy growth in the world's largest economy, while keeping bets on a 25-basis-point rate cut at the Federal Reserve's next meeting largely intact at 89.4%, according to CME's FedWatch.
U.S. retail sales increased 0.4% in September, slightly more than expected, while weekly jobless claims fell unexpectedly.
A broadly upbeat start to the third-quarter earnings season, strong economic data and the Fed kicking off its policy-easing cycle have pushed the Dow and the S&P 500 to record highs in recent sessions, with the latter close to the psychologically important 6,000 mark.
The S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.00 points, or 0.02%, at 5,841.47 points, while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC climbed 6.53 points, or 0.04%, to 18,373.61. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 161.35 points, or 0.37%, to 43,239.05.
Josh Jamner, investment strategy analyst at ClearBridge Investments, said investors have been revising economic and earnings growth expectations as robust data eased worries about a recession.
However, investors were trying to figure out which companies and sectors will lead the market higher, and when to rotate into them, after months of megacap stocks driving market rallies.
"Overall, it's allowing the market to advance, but maybe in a somewhat more restrained fashion than what otherwise might be expected," Jamner said.
While theDow advanced for the second straight day, small cap indexes fell. The Russell 2000 .RUT dipped 0.3% andthe S&P Small Cap 600 .SPCY slipped 0.2%, a day after closingat their highest in nearly three years.
A majority of S&P 500 sectors were also weaker, including rate-sensitive indexes such as utilities .SPLRCU and real estate <.SPLRCR>, which slipped 0.9% and 0.7%, respectively.
One other quirk is that U.S. equity benchmarks have advanced in recent days even as U.S. Treasury yields have crept up. On Thursday, the benchmark 10-year note yield US10YT=TWEB rose 7.5 basis points to 4.091%.
In earnings-related moves, Travelers Companies TRV.N and Blackstone Group BX.N advanced 9% and 6.3%, respectively, to record closing highs after both the insurer and the money manager posted third-quarter profit which beat market expectations.
The S&P Banks index .SPXBK edged up 0.1%, advancing for afifth straight session, matching its mid-August run and just one off its six successive wins in April, as a slew of larger regional banks posted third-quarter numbers. M&T Bank MTB.N and Synovus Financial SNV.N rose more than 5%, but Truist Financial TFC.N dropped 3.5% and Huntington Bancshares<HBAN.O> slipped 2.6%.
Outside financials, health insurer Elevance Health ELV.N plummeted 10.6%, its biggest one-day drop since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, afterslashing its full-year profit forecast.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.34 billion shares, compared with the 12.08 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru and David French in New York; Editing by Pooja Desai and Richard Chang
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