Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] The S&P 500 is sitting at its highs of the day in a session that has been largely devoid of concerted selling interest, notwithstanding the brief headline-driven dip roughly an hour ago.

Trading order, though, was quickly restored with participants embracing the pre-dip trend that included the outperformance of the small-cap stocks, the communication services sector (+1.2%), the energy sector (+2.2%), and the semiconductor stocks.

Most areas, however, have benefited from buying interest in today's trade, albeit in modest fashion. Outside of the communication services and energy sectors, gains for seven other sectors range from 0.05% to 0.9%.