MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE - Sept 7,2021

 

MARKETS: YEAR-TO-DATE

Nasdaq 15,363.52 +19.21%

S&P 4,535.43 +20.75%

Dow 35,369.09 +15.56%

Bitcoin $52,628.26 +81.47%

10-Year 1.344% +42.5 bps

NVIDIA $228.43 +75.11%

*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 1:00am ET. Here's what these numbers mean.

Markets: Investors head back to work today hoping to avoid a repeat of last September, when the S&P 500 fell 3.9% after five straight months of gains. Today's stock spotlight is tech giant Nvidia, which has had one of the best performances of any company in the S&P this year. Covid: While overall cases appear to have plateaued in the US, deaths have continued to climb, hitting a 7-day average of 1,500 per day on Friday (they were in the low 200s in early July). In Kentucky, where hospitalizations and new cases are increasing at the fastest pace since the pandemic began, the governor said the situation was “dire.”