Wall Street ends sharply lower as anxiety rises, earnings heat up
TSMC reverses course after upbeat results
Domino's Pizza slumps after Q2 same-store sales miss
Warner Bros Discovery jumps on report of mulling break-up plan
VIX touches multi-month high
Updates to market close
By Stephen Culp
NEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) -U.S. stocks tumbled onThursday, reversing early gains as investors continued to rotate away from high-priced megacap growth stocks and second-quarter earnings season gathered steam.
All three major U.S. stock indexes suffered steep losses, and theblue-chip Dow fell the most, halting a series of consecutive record closing highs.
The sell-off resumed a day after the Nasdaq posted its biggest one-day drop since December 2022 and the chip sector .SOX suffered its largest daily percentage plunge since the pandemic-related shutdown panic of March 2020.
But anxiety remained elevated. The CBOE Market Volatility index .VIX, often called the "fear index," touched its highest level since early May.
"What's different from yesterday is you did see money going into other sectors ... but today it’s a pretty broad selloff," said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist at Ingalls & Snyder in New York.
The Russell 2000 .RUT fell for the second day in a row after an apparent rotation into smallcaps sent the index soaring 11.5% in its most robust five-day gain since April 2020.
"Over the last two weeks we've seen a rotation into other sectors including midcaps and smallcaps, which have been huge laggards," Ghriskey added. "But today it’s reversing. The market is flailing around trying to find a direction."
"Investors (are) just pulling back and saying 'we're going to cash out now, it's been a great run.' They’re unsure what’s going to happen in terms of politics," Ghriskey said.
U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing TSM.N weighed on chips .SOX following a report saying the United States is considering tighter curbs on tech exports to China.
In economic news, initial jobless claims data landed above analysts' estimates, providing further evidence that the labor market is softening. This is a necessary step toward putting inflation on a sustainable downward path, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 43.18 points, or 0.77%, to end at 5,545.09 points, while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC lost 125.70 points, or 0.70%, to 17,871.22. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 529.41 points, or 1.29%, to 40,668.67.
Second-quarter earnings season gained momentum, with 60 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 85% have delivered consensus-beating results, LSEG data showed.
Analysts now see aggregate year-on-year S&P 500 earnings growth of 11.1%.
Domino's Pizza DPZ.N tumbled after falling short of estimates for quarterly same-store sales.
Shares of Homebuilder D.R. Horton DHI.N rose after the company beat profit estimates and delivered more new homes than expected, but tightened its annual forecast.
The move lifted the Philadelphia SE Housing index .HGX to a record high.
Warner Bros Discovery WBD.O jumped following a report that the company had discussed a plan to split its digital streaming and studio businesses from its legacy TV networks.
Netflix NFLX.O is expected to post its quarterly results shortly.
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Reporting by Stephen Culp; Additional Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Ankika Biswas in Bengaluru; Editing by Richard Chang and Rod Nickel
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