The Dow Jones fell a timid 0.05% at 48,950 points, the S&P 500 gained 0.13% to 6,911 points, while the Nasdaq advanced 0.29% at 23,463 points.
The Dow Jones closed yesterday Monday at new all-time highswith markets recovering after the United States captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in the weekend military attack on Venezuela, while Trump encourages major investments by US oil companies.
«I think the situation in Venezuela has had no impact on stocks in general,» said Barry Knapp, research director at Ironsides Macroeconomics, speaking to CNBC.
In yesterday’s session, the Dow Jones It gained almost 595 points, 1.23%, reaching an all-time high of 48,977.49 points. He S&P 500 gained 0.64%, to 6,902.09 points, while the Nasdaq Composite it gained 0.69%, to 23,395.82 points.
Companies and oil
The macroeconomic agenda It comes with hardly any references in the North American country, beyond the publication of the Composite PMI once the session opens. However, investors will be attentive to the employment data that will be published throughout the week.
Energy sector stocks continue their climb, adding to the strong gains of the previous session, as traders bet that companies in the sector will benefit from Maduro’s removal.
Chevron and Exxon Mobil advance 0.35% and 0.15%, respectively, after rising more than 5% and 2% in the previous session.
NVIDIA announces that it is working with robotaxis operators in the hope that they will use the company’s AI chips and Drive AV software suite to power their fleets of autonomous vehicles starting in 2027.
By then, the chipmaker hopes to boost its partners’ deployment of «Level 4» robotaxis, or vehicles capable of driving without human intervention in predefined regions, according to Xinzhou Wu, Nvidia’s vice president of automotive, at an autonomous driving demonstration held last month in San Francisco.
«We will probably start with limited availability, but we will work with our partners to get a foothold,» Wu said.
According to Wedbush’s Dan Ives, the market is underestimating the value that NVIDIA and Microsoft will bring.
On CNBC’s «Closing Bell» program, Ives pointed out that investors «are a little bored with what Nvidia stock is doing right now. And I think that within six or nine months, we will have a unique opportunity to buy Nvidia, Microsoft and, obviously, names like Oracle,» said the global director of technology research at Wedbush Securities. «I think investors are underestimating what demand will be for Nvidia… I see 2026 as a golden year for Microsoft.»
Ives states that he believes that Microsoft is still in the early stages of the artificial intelligence cycledespite investor concerns over declining Azure growth rates.
Precisely, one of Nvidia’s strongest competitors, Advanced Micro Devices, showed several artificial intelligence chips at the CES fair in Las Vegas, including its advanced MI455 AI processors, components of the data center server racks that the company sells to firms such as OpenAI.
It also introduced the MI440X, a version of the MI400 series chip designed for local enterprise use. The so-called enterprise version is intended to fit into infrastructures that are not specifically designed for AI clusters. The MI440X is a version of an older chip that the United States plans to use in a supercomputer. Its shares lost 0.5% at the beginning of the session.
Shares of American International Group fell 5.6% at the opening, after the company announced that its CEO, Peter Zaffino, will resign in 2026 and will become executive chairman of the board of directors.
Eric Andersen, who served as president of Aon from 2020 to 2025, will replace Zaffino as president and CEO-elect, effective February 16.
On the other hand, the benchmark 10-year US bond offers a secondary market yield of 4.170%.
In the raw materials market, oil prices They rise moderately after initial falls, as the market weighs expectations of ample global supply this year against the uncertainty surrounding Venezuelan crude production following the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the United States.
Thus, West Texas Intermediate oil futures rose 0.6% to $58.67 a barrel, while Brent crude futures, a benchmark in Europe, rose 0.55% to $62.10.
Spot gold rises 0.48%, to $4,470.10 per ounce, continuing its particular rise.
Regarding currencies, the Euro Dollar fell 0.07%, establishing the exchange rate at 1.1714 dollars for each community currency.