Nasdaq, S&P rises as Tesla soars, yields pull back
Tesla jumps after strong sales forecast
UPS advances following quarterly profit beat
Boeing down after workers reject latest contract
Weekly jobless claims lower than forecasts
Indexes: Dow down 0.37%, S&P 500 up 0.16%, Nasdaq up 0.64%
Updated at 2:12pm ET/6:12pm GMT
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal, Purvi Agarwal and Carolina Mandl
Oct 24 (Reuters) -The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 gained on Thursday, driven by Tesla's positive earnings forecast and a decline in Treasury yields from a three-month high, which buoyed market sentiment despite declines from some corporate results.
Shares of Tesla soared 20.85%, with the EV-maker set to add more than $100 billion to its market capitalization, after it reported robust third-quarter profits and surprised investors with a prediction of 20% to 30% sales growth next year.
This helped take the Consumer Discretionary .SPLRCD sector 3.11% higher.
However, sentiment was shaky elsewhere. Most of the S&P sectors were in the red, as other earnings reports and pressure from still high Treasury yields weighed.
"We've got pretty divergent performance between sectors and companies and that really is a function of being a third of the way through their earning season," Bill Northey, senior investment director at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. "That has really been a mixed bag."
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note US10YT=RR eased on the day, at 4.18%, after reaching a three-month high the day before. It went as high as 4.26% in Wednesday's session, which saw all three major equity indexes lose ground.
Other megacap growth stocks reversed early gains, with Nvidia NVDA.O flat and Apple AAPL.O losing 0.2%.
IBM IBM.N lost 6.81% after missing third-quarter revenue estimates, while Honeywell's HON.O 4.5% decline after it forecast annual sales below estimates also weighed on the blue-chip Dow.
At 02:12 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 158.96 points, or 0.37%, to 42,355.99, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 9.31 points, or 0.16%, to 5,806.73 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 116.54 points, or 0.64%, to 18,393.20.
Materials .SPLRCM dropped 1.5%, dragged down by Newmont NEM.N as higher costs and weaker Nevada output saw it miss profit estimates.
Boeing BA.N also lost 1.64% after factory workers voted on Wednesday to reject a contract offer and continue a more than five-week-long strike.
Stocks have eased from record levels over the past few sessions due to a reassessment of bets on the Federal Reserve's rate cuts, rising Treasury yields, corporate earnings and uncertainty surrounding the upcoming U.S. election.
The pullback, however, was to be expected, Dennis Dick, trader at Triple D Trading said. "The story is still in tech, and that story is not going away, I would still say dips in tech need to be bought."
Southwest Airlines LUV.N lost 6.52% after earnings and after the company reached an agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management.
On a brighter note, UPS UPS.N added 4.5% after the parcel service provider reported a rise in third-quarter profit, on rebounding volumes and cost cuts.
Of the 159 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported results this earnings season, 78.6% have beaten analyst expectations, according to data compiled by LSEG.
On the economic front, S&P Global's flash PMI data showed U.S. business activity increased in October, amid strong demand. Weekly jobless claims also fell unexpectedly for the week ended Oct. 19.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.06-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. There were 113 new highs and 45 new lows on the NYSE.
The S&P 500 posted 41 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 68 new highs and 75 new lows.
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Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Pooja Desai and Aurora Ellis
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