Dow holds onto seven day win streak as markets close higher

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is holding its head high as it closes its seventh straight session of gains, with the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) following the former's example after starting the day off in the red.

Market Domination Overtime's Julie Hyman reviews the intraday market performance while Senior Markets Reporter Jared Blikre parses through leaders and laggards across sectors.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

Video Transcript

And now it's market domination.Over time, we are joined by Jared B to get you up to speed on the action from today's session sponsored by Tasty trade.So let's start with where the major averages ended up the Dow ending at the highs of the session here and still leading the games that we saw up almost 9/10 of 1% or about 331 points.Here, the S and P 500 up about a half of 1% and the NASDAQ up about a quarter of 1% here, so sort of drift up.Check on the S and P Equal Weight Index because we have had a lot of investors in recent days, including Eric Friedman from US Bank at the top of the show, talk about the equal weight and the broadening out of the rally.That theme has been surfacing once again, and indeed the equal weight index of three quarters of a percent outperforming the S and P 500 which is market way.So just a little tidbit for you to take with you today.I'm sure Jared's got many more tidbits for you, Jared.What are you seeing today?Well, thank you, Julie.I'll tell you what I think that's a really interesting observation.And yes, the the rally appears to be broadening once again.Here is what happened in sector action today.Real estate number one utilities number two And that's been something that's been a common occurrence recently, though two interest rate sensitive sectors that are usually sleepy are leading.In fact, let me show you what's happened this month of May.This is all seven days.Utilities up 7%.That's the number one sector.Then you have communication services.So just wanted to break off and just kind of highlight that utilities.It's typically not a leading sector, but now it's an A. I play because you got to build those data centres.Anyway, here's the NASDAQ 100.You're gonna see tech not having the best day.NVIDIA down 1.84%.In fact, let me just skip to the semiconductor heat map you're gonna see more red than green.There pretty similar story for software, though you so see a little bit more because of Microsoft.And then if you go to unprofitable tech, you actually see the most screens.So, uh, kind of a little bit backwards here, But nevertheless, in this particular group, we're seeing Robin Hood down 3% roadblocks down 22%.Both of those earning stories.And let's take a look at the leaders here.We got cannabis in the forefront.MJ harvest ETF up 3.5%.Then you have home builders, Chinese stocks, retail, solar pretty broad group here that we're looking at, uh, in terms of gainers.And let me just show you what's happening with gold miners here.We have seen gold kind of tick up today, and we're seeing a lot of movement in this sector, not seeing it get a lot of attention, but, uh, when gold miners pick up, that's usually a sign that gold is something is doing something interesting as well.And in fact, it is.Here's gold of 1.24% today, and here's that year to day look up 13.89% guys

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