Stock Market Update

[BRIEFING.COM] The S&P 500 is little changed in the early going while the Nasdaq (+0.4%) outperforms.

Five sectors display early gains with technology (+0.8%) and consumer discretionary (+0.4%) in the lead while financials (-1.0%) and real estate (-1.0%) are the weakest performers in the early going.

Treasuries have added to their early gains with the 10-yr yield down four basis point at 4.42%.

Just reported, Factory Orders were down 3.7% in April (Brieifng.com consensus -3.1%) after increasing a revised 3.4% (from 4.3%) in March while job openings increased to 7.391 million from a revised 7.200 million (from 7.192 million) in March.