Dow ends at another record high as Wall Street buoyed by banks, small-caps
Dow posts third record closing high in four sessions
Russell 2000, S&P Small Cap 600 at highest levels since Nov 2021
Morgan Stanley record high as Q3 profit jumps; banks buoyant
Utilities climb; Amazon nuke accord benefits Dominion
Indexes up: Dow 0.79%, S&P 500 0.47%, Nasdaq 0.28%
Adds closing prices, Dow milestone
By David French
Oct 16 (Reuters) - TheDow Jones Industrial Average rose on Wednesday and closed at a record high, and WallStreet's two otherbenchmark indexes also endedhigher, weathering declines in megacap tech shares thanks to small-caps gains and financial shares buoyed by strong earnings.
It was the third time in four sessions the Dow .DJI has recorded a best ever finish, ending above 43,000 points again and recouping losses from the previous session.
Also a whisker away from setting another closing milestone was the S&P 500 .SPX, but ultimately it finished just short, up 27.21 points, or 0.47%, to 5,842.47 points.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC rose 51.49 points, or 0.28%, to 18,367.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI advanced 337.28 points, or 0.79%, to 43,077.70.
On a broadly positive day for Wall Street, it was financial stocks which led the way.
"I think investors have rotated a little bit out of some of the big tech companies and into the big financial companies," said Michael Kantrowitz, chief investment strategist at Piper Sandler.
He said some movement from investors made sense as the rate environment has become more conducive for bank earnings, while a lot of optimism around artificial intelligence (AI) is priced into tech companies.
Morgan Stanley MS.N posted a record close, jumping 6.5%, afterit joined peers such as JPMorgan Chase JPM.N in reporting strong profits following a sharp increase in investment banking revenue.
Larger regional banks, traditionally less reliant on investment banking activities, were also higher. First Horizon FHN.N rose 4.1% andU.S. Bancorp USB.N advanced 4.7% afterreporting third-quarter results.
The broader Banks .SPXBK index was up 1.2%, and anindex tracking regional banks .KRX gained 1.5%.
Investors also focused onsmall-cap stocks, with some rotation from expensive tech megacaps to less expensive sectors.
The Russell 2000 index .RUT rose 1.6%, and the S&P Small Cap 600 .SPCY gained 1.4%. Both had their highest finishes since November 2021.
While acknowledging some buying in recent days, Piper Sandler's Kantrowitz said he was yet to be convinced of a wider rotation into small caps.
"I think people are broadening out their portfolio exposure, but still sticking with the same flavor of fundamentals," adding people were buying high-quality small-caps but not digging into the kinds of deep-value names you would expect to attract attention if the full rotation was underway.
Among the big-tech names which dragged, Apple AAPL.O dipped 0.9% afterhitting a record high in the previous session. Alphabet GOOGL.O, Meta Platforms META.O, and MicrosoftMSFT.O all declined between 0.2% and 1.6%.
Chip heavyweight Nvidia NVDA.O, however, bucked the megacap slide, rising 3.1% after slumping nearly 5% in the previous session.
Gains in the so-called Magnificent Seven group of tech stocks have driven most of Wall Street's record-breaking run this year. However, with valuations increasingly stretched and a brighter economic outlook, investors have been seeking opportunities elsewhere.
Four of the 11 S&P sectors registered record closing highs: financials .SPSY, utilities .SPLRCU, materials .SPLRCM and industrials .SPLRCI.
Utilities ledsectoral gains, leaping 2%, with Dominion Energy's D.N 5.1% increaseamong the catalysts after it was one of the power companies with which Amazon.com AMZN.O announced agreements for developing nuclear technology to power data centers.
The second best-performing S&P sectors year to date, Piper Sandler's Kantrowitz said he remains bullish on utilities as they benefit from both the higher power demand coming from AI, but also the lower interest rate environment.
The economically sensitive Transport index .DJT jumped 1.9%, lifted by United Airlines' UAL.O best one-day performance in six months. It gained 12.4% after it forecast better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and announced a $1.5-billion share buyback program on Tuesday.
Delta Air Lines DAL.N and American Airlines AAL.O also benefited, advancing 6.8% and 7.1%, respectively.
Attention now turns to more corporate earnings are due through the week, along with key economic data including the retail sales and industrial production figures for September on Thursday.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.63 billion shares, compared with the 12.13 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru and David French in New York; Editing by Pooja Desai and David Gregorio
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