TGT - What Happened in the Stock Market Today
Investors trying to divine the state of the trade war with China were heartened by optimistic comments from President Trump on Monday, sending major benchmarks higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) both gained about 1%. The communication services and technology sectors led the buying.
Data source: Yahoo! Finance.
As for individual stocks, Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) announced plans to sell a blockbuster drug to Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), and Target (NYSE: TGT) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) are forming a retail collaboration.