CNBC Business News Update - Market Midday: Stocks Mixed, Home Prices Hit Record High in May, Delta Raises Its Dividend 6/21/24

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

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I'm Jessica Edinger, CNBC. Markets have been just kind of churning this afternoon on Wall Street. NVIDIA's been struggling. This is the first full day of summer trading, and the indexes are on pace for a winning week. The Dow is down 28 points this afternoon. The S&P 500 index popped into the green, up four points. The Nasdaq now up 61 points. Companies whose shares have hit

fresh all-time highs today include Colgate, Palmolive, Aflac, McKesson, Regeneron, and Walmart. Home prices hit a record high in May as sales fell. The median price of an existing home sold last month, $419,300, an all-time high and up more than 5% from the same month last year. It's a big options expiration date today, some reweighting and rebalancing happening in the markets. Plus, with NVIDIA and other chip makers continuing to pull back, NVIDIA is no longer the most valuable company in the world. So the makings for a enough for now moment for the momentum sector of the market was absolutely there. NVIDIA obviously embodies everything in an amplified way as well, opens up three and a half percent, ends up down three and a half percent

on the day. I think you can sort of be prepared for the at least possibility that this could result in rotation as it did yesterday, or it could create a little bit more of a more chop. CNBC's Mike Santoli. Meantime, an AI chip maker to rival NVIDIA, Cerebros, has confidentially filed to sell shares to the public. Car sales are in trouble across the country after hacks into the software that dealerships use. Car dealerships across the U.S. will likely be out of service for days.

Billions of dollars and soon to be trillions that are tied up that can't be funded, that are frozen. And it's going to start affecting manufacturers, the finance companies. And that's the big downfall here because if you can't fund these contracts and pay off these cars that are sitting on a floor plan,

you've got an issue. Celebrity motor car CEO Tom Maioli speaking on last call. This is following a second major cyber attack. Reportedly, there is no estimated time frame for a resolution. Now, thousands of car dealerships rely on CDK software to run their day-to-day operations. CNBC's Silvana Hanau, used car retailer CarMax, posted a 33% drop in first quarter profit. Profitability's just gotten worse in the used car business as more new vehicles continue to come on the market after the pandemic, pushing used prices down. Mall chain Forever 21 looking for rent concessions at various locations as the fast fashion brand faces financial issues. Delta Airlines investors are profiting from the company's success

post-pandemic. Delta Airlines is raising its quarterly dividend by 50 percent to 15 cents a share. The payout represents an annual yield of about 1.2 percent based on yesterday's closing price. Delta reinstated its dividend at June of 2023 at 10 cents a share after suspending those payments during the pandemic. CNBC's Frank Holland. Jessica Ettinger, CNBC. The Olympic Games are coming. But first, the best American athletes have to make Team USA. The U.S. Olympic Team Trials on NBC and Peacock.