The stock market is trading near session highs as crude oil prices fall 1.8%.
Eight of the ten economic sectors at trading at or near their session
peak. Meanwhile, energy (-0.2%) and materials (+0.5%) have been
trending lower, and are now trading near their session troughs.
There has been notable strength within large-cap tech names, as the Nasdaq 100 advances 1.2%. Heavyweights Microsoft (MSFT 30.38, +0.45), Apple (AAPL 188.51, +2.25) and Qualcomm (QCOM 44.83, +0.70) are lending support.