Norfolk Southern Corp., through its Norfolk Southern Railway Company, operates approximately 19,500 route miles in 22 eastern states and the District of Columbia. The railroad serves all major eastern ports and connects with rail partners in the western U.S. and Canada. Norfolk Southern also has an extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S. The stock is a component of the S&P 500. Based on Atlanta, GA, the company has about 20,700 employees.

The S&P 500 couldn't hold 6,000 on Tuesday, finishing down a modest 0.3%, while the NYSE couldn't hold 20,000, dropping 0.8%. The Nasdaq, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 100 were flat. The larger losses came from recent leaders, with the S&P MidCap 400 falling 1% and the S&P SmallCap 600 dipping 1.5%. Has the fear of large, round numbers on some of the major indices replaced the fear of missing out (FOMO)? Or can we just call it profit taking on a very short, but torrid, advance higher? With the smaller and less-concentrated indices falling the most, the reading for market breadth was very bad. The reading for NYSE advances-decliners was -1,917; the reading for NYSE advancing issues/total issues was a weak 20% (one of the worst days in recent months); and the reading for NYSE advancing volume/total volume was 29%. The S&P 500 sectors didn't inspire a lot of confidence, but it's only one day. Materials dropped 1.7%, Healthcare gave up 1.4%, Consumer Discretionary and Real Estate fell 1.3%, Utilities dipped 1.2%, and Industrials fell 0.9%. Communication Services led with a 0.5% gain. Bitcoin reached $90,243 intraday despite the continued rally in the U.S. Dollar Index. So much for the consistent negative correlation between the two assets. However, gold futures fell to $2,606/oz., the lowest mark since September and a clear trend break. Silver futures finished near $31/oz., after hitting $35/oz. late in October. The COT data for metals remains bearish and the COT data for the greenback remains bullish -- so additional weakness in metals is quite possible.

Class-I railroad Norfolk Southern operates in the Eastern United States. On more than 20,000 miles of track, the rail hauls shipments of coal, intermodal traffic, and a diverse mix of automobile, agriculture, metal, chemical, and forest products.

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