The benchmark S&P 500 index and Nasdaq indices hit record all-time highs on Friday (27 June) albeit US equity markets settled off their session highs (and briefly turned negative in afternoon trading) as investors digested a mixture of trade policy news - Dow rose +432-points or +1.00% to 43,819.27, still sitting ~2.7% below its record high. Nike Inc soared +15.19% to pace gains in both the Dow and S&P 500 after athletic apparel maker topped fiscal fourth-quarter estimates after the close of last Thursday’s (26 June) session. Boeing Co rallied +5.91%, buoyed by news of Washington and Beijing agreeing on a framework of a trade deal after a months-long tariff war. Nvidia Corp (+1.76%) insiders sold over >US$1B worth of company stock in the past year, with a notable uptick in recent trading activity as executives capitalise on surging investor interest in artificial intelligence (AI), the Financial Times (FT) reported on Sunday (29 June). More than >US$500M of the share sales took place this month as the chip designer's share price climbed to an all-time high. Nvidia last week usurped Microsoft Corp (down -0.30%) as the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation. A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing recorded that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jensen Huang started selling shares last week for the first time since September.
