Recovery in chips, megacaps drives Nasdaq, S&P 500 higher
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TSMC rises, lifts chips stocks after upbeat results
Domino's Pizza slumps after Q2 same-store sales miss
Warner Bros Discovery jumps on report of mulling break-up plan
Jobless claims higher than expected
Indexes up: Dow 0.03%, S&P 0.32%, Nasdaq 0.57%
Updated at 9:39 a.m. ET/1339 GMT
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Ankika Biswas
July 18 (Reuters) - The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 bounced back on Thursday, boosted by a recovery in megacaps, as an upbeat forecast from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing lifted chip stocks after a sharp sell-off in the previous session.
U.S.-listed shares of TSMCTSM.N jumped 2.1% afterthe world's largest contract chipmaker raised itsfull-year revenue forecast on surging demand for AI chips.
AppleAAPL.O and Nvidia NVDA.O, both TSMC customers, rose 0.5% and 2.4%, respectively.
Other chipmakers such as AdvancedMicro Devices AMD.O, Intel INTC.O andMarvell Technology<MRVL.O> also rose between 0.4% and 2%.
This comes after chip stocks lost over$500 billion in market value on Wednesday, followinga report that theU.S. was considering tightercurbs on exports of advanced semiconductor technology to China, as well as Trump's Taiwan comments.
The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index .SOX rose1.4% after loggingits worst day in four years on Wednesday.
Most of the so-called "Magnificent 7" stocks rose, including Microsoft<MSFT.O>, Tesla TSLA.O and Meta Platforms<META.O>.
The S&P 500 Tech index .SPLRCT led sectoral gains with a 1% rise, while Healthcare .SPXHC was the worst hit.
This quarterly earnings season will be a significant test for whether expensively valued megacaps can keep investors satisfied with strong results.
"Risks in the technology sector got pointed out yesterday, with continuing trade issues between the U.S. and China," said Paul Nolte, senior wealth adviser and market strategist for Murphy & Sylvest.
In corporate results, Domino's Pizza DPZ.N slumped12.7% after falling short of estimates for quarterlysame-store sales.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton DHI.N jumped8.1%, reversing its premarket course after higherquarterly profit and a $4-billion share buyback plan, lifting the PHLX Housing index .HGX to a record high.
Thesmall-cap Russell 2000 <.RUT> rose 0.10% aftersnapping a five-day winning streak in the previous session.
Nolte expects the rotation from large tech stocks to small-cap and value companies to continue, although "not in a straight line".
The Dow, however, was flat after the index notched its third consecutive closing high in the last session.
Elsewhere, the Labor Department reportedjobless claims rose to 243,000 for the week ended July 13 - higher than previously forecast - another signal that the jobs market was cooling.
Traders are pricing in a 93.5% chance of a 25-basis-point rate cut from the Federal Reserve by September, according to CME's FedWatch.
Comments from Fed officials Lorie Logan, Mary Daly and Michelle Bowman are also expected later in the day.
At 9:39 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 13.09 points, or 0.03%, at 41,211.17, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 18.07 points, or 0.32%, at 5,606.34, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 102.41 points, or 0.57%, at 18,099.33.
Warner Bros Discovery WBD.Ojumped 3.7% after a report that the CNN and HBO owner had discussed aplan to split its digital streaming and studio businesses from its legacy TV networks.
Netflix NFLX.O rose 0.7% ahead of its results, due after markets close.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.07-to-1 ratio on the NYSE, and by a 1.17-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 15 new 52-week highs, while the Nasdaq recorded 25 new highs and nine new lows.
Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Ankika Biswas in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Pooja Desai
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