4B ❚ TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 ❚ USA TODAY MONEY
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MARKETS.USATODAY.COMMARKET PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR
Sector Close Chg. 4wk^1 YTD^1
COMMODITIES
Commodities Close Prev. Chg. % Chg. % Y TDTOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS
ETF, ranked by volume Ticker Close Chg. % Chg %Y TDFOREIGN CURRENCIES
Currency per dollar Close Prev. 6 mo. ago Yr. agoFOREIGN MARKETS
Countr y Close Prev. Change %Chg. %Y TDTechnology 93.48 +5.11 -3.2% +2.0%
Utilities 65.84 +3.66 -4.9% +1.9%
Telecom 59.82 +1.60 -4.0% -2.6%
Consumer staples 61.09 +3.10 -3.3% -3.0%
Consumer discret. 119.81 +3.98 -5.1% -4.5%
Health care 96.95 +4.34 -3.1% -4.8%
Industrials 75.65 +2.57 -6.7% -7.1%
Financials 27.95 +1.36 -7.4% -9.2%
Materials 54.98 +2.26 -6.6% -10.5%
Energy 47.10 +1.83 -10.7% -21.6%
SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY 309.09 +12.83 +4.3% -4.0%
iShs Emerg Mkts EEM 41.40 +0.88 +2.2% -7.7%
SPDR Financial XLF 27.95 +1.36 +5.1% -9.2%
iPath Sh Term Fut VXX 22.03 -0.78 -3.4% +45.7%
Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ 216.42 +10.62 +5.2% +1.8%
VanE Vect Gld Miners GDX 27.29 +1.07 +4.1% -6.8%
iShares EAFE ETF EFA 63.04 +0.80 +1.3% -9.2%
ProShs UltPro ShtQQQ SQQQ 20.07 -3.33 -14.2% -10.4%
iShs iBoxx HY CpBd HYG 86.31 +0.27 +0.3% -1.9%
SPDR S&P O&G ExpPdtn XOP 15.37 -0.01 -0.1% -35.1%Cattle (lb.) 1.10 1.13 - 0.03 +2.3% -11.7%
Corn (bushel) 3.75 3.67 +0.08 +2.3% -3.4%
Gold (troy oz.) 1,592.30 1,564.10 +28.20 +1.8% +4.8%
Hogs, lean (lb.) .63 .62 +0.01 +0.9% -12.1%
Natural Gas (Btu.) 1.76 1.68 +0.08 +4.3% -19.8%
Oil, heating (gal.) 1.53 1.49 +0.04 +3.5% -24.6%
Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 46.75 44.76 +1.99 +4.5% -23.4%
Silver (troy oz.) 16.68 16.39 +0.29 +1.8% -6.4%
Soybeans (bushel) 8.90 8.84 +0.06 +0.8% -5.6%
Wheat (bushel) 5.26 5.29 -0.03 -0.5% -5.8%British pound .7828 .7818 .8286.
Canadian dollar 1.3356 1.3403 1.3328 1.
Chinese yuan 7.0008 6.9919 7.1721 6.
Euro .8959 .9068 .9116.
Japanese yen 107.87 107.85 106.19 112.
Mexican peso 19.5227 19.7353 20.1467 19.Fr a n k f u r t 11, 8 57. 8 7 11, 8 9 0. 3 5 -3 2. 4 8 - 0. 3 % -10. 5%
Hong Kong 26,291.68 26,129.93 +161.75 +0.6% -6.7%
Japan (Nikkei) 21,344.08 21,142.96 +201.12 +1.0% -9.8%
London 6,654.89 6,580.61 +74.28 +1.1% -11.8%
Mexico City 42,167.24 41,324.31 +842.93 +2.0% -3.2%DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
SOURCE Morningstar, Dow Jones Indexes, The Associated PressS&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS
Company (ticker) Price $ Chg. % Chg. Y TD
Costco Wholesale (COST) 309.14 +28.00 +10.0 +5.
Apple Inc (AAPL) 298.81 +25.45 +9.3 +1.
Crown Castle Intl (CCI) 156.24 +12.95 +9.0 +9.
AES Corp (AES) 18.22 +1.49 +8.9 -8.
S&P Global Inc (SPGI) 289.31 +23.40 +8.8 +6.
S&P 500’S BIGGEST LOSERS
Company (ticker) Price $ Chg. % Chg. Y TD
Live Nation Entert (LYV) 57.96 -2.81 -4.6 -18.
Norwegian Cruise Ln (NCLH) 35.59 -1.67 -4.5 -39.
Ventas Inc (VTR) 52.36 -1.41 -2.6 -9.
Gap Inc (GPS) 14.03 -.30 -2.1 -20.
Expedia Inc (EXPE) 96.73 -1.89 -1.9 -10.MARKET NOTEBOOK
Issues NYSE NASDAQ
Advancing 2,
Declining 469
Unchanged 28
Tot a l 2 ,74 82,
816
99
3,
Issues at^55
New 52 Week High 12
New 52 Week Low 164171
Share Volume
Advancing 4,955,335,
Declining 1,216,121,
Unchanged 48,984,3,105,138,
977,525,
6,916,Total 6,220,441,193 4,089,580,+1293.
Closing: 26,703.
Change: +5.1%
YTD % Chg: -6.4%S&P 500 • STANDARD & POOR’S+136.
Closing: 3,090.
Change: +4.6%
YTD % Chg: -4.4%NASDAQ COMPOSITE+384.
Closing: 8,952.
Change: +4.5%
YTD % Chg: -.2%RUSSELL 2000+42.
Closing: 1,518.
Change: +2.9%
YTD % Chg: -9.0%News from across the USAALABAMA Montgomery: The state’s
Black Belt region would become a
National Heritage Area eligible for
funding and other benefits under a
bipartisan move supported by the
state’s congressional delegation.
ALASKA Juneau: A group of Native
tribes has started a food and supplies
drive for communities struggling with
a lack of ferry service, an official said.
The Central Council of Tlingit and
Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is pre-
paring to make the first shipment,
The Juneau Empire reports.
ARIZONA Tucson: The mayor and a
councilwoman are calling for the
removal of Confederate flags from the
annual Tucson Rodeo Parade.
ARKANSAS Fayetteville: Several
universities in the state have can-
celed study abroad programs in Italy
amid fears about the COVID-19 virus.
CALIFORNIA Running Springs: Snow
showers fell in the mountains of
Southern California on Monday, and
some Sierra Nevada peaks sported
new coats of white. The turnabout
followed a February that set records
for dryness in parts of the state.
COLORADO Loveland: March came
with a cost to outdoor enthusiasts:
It’ll now cost $1 more to enter Colora-
do State Parks’ 41 sites.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: State envi-
ronmental officials are asking for the
public’s help in finding bobcat track-
ing collars that have been pro-
grammed to fall off as part of one of
the largest studies of its kind.
DELAWARE Dover: State officials
have abruptly ended their contract
with a company providing medical
care to prison inmates and chosen a
new provider, Centurion.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing-
ton: The debate over whether the
Washington Redskins football team
should change its name has some
new data. A study from the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, in the
journal of Social Psychological and
Personality Science, finds at least
half of Native Americans offended by
the moniker, WUSA-TV reports.
FLORIDA Indian River Shores: A
trove of Spanish coins dating back to
a 1715 shipwreck during a storm has
been found along a beach in the Sun-
shine State. Jonah Martinez located
the coins using a metal detector.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Staffing levels for
screeners at the city’s busy airport
are prompting some to fear it will
lead to long lines.
HAWAII Honolulu: A bill that would
require publicly traded corporations
based in the state to include women
on their boards of directors has ad-
vanced in the state Senate but faces
resistance from business advocates.
IDAHO Boise: Legislation introduced
Monday would make abortion a crime
in Idaho should the U.S. Supreme
Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Officials have pro-
posed a plan to address affordable
housing concerns near the site of the
planned Obama Presidential Center.
INDIANA Indianapolis: A plan to
switch to an entirely electric fleet of
public city buses by 2035 is in ques-
tion due to problems with range.
IOWA Des Moines: U.S. Sen. Joni
Ernst wheeled a mountain of signed
petitions into the Iowa secretary of
state’s office Monday morning to file
for reelection.
KANSAS Garden City: The number
of suicides in the state has in-
creased by more than half in recent
years, particularly in its northwest
rural areas.KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Salato
Wildlife Education Center reopens
Tuesday. Visitors have indoor and
outdoor viewing opportunities for
wildlife including a bear, eagle, bob-
cats, deer, bison and birds of prey.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The his-
tory behind a bell that stood in front
of Tulane University’s McAlister
Auditorium has prompted university
officials to remove it. President Mike
Fitts and Board Chairman Doug
Hertz said officials were informed
last week that the “Victory Bell” was
originally used to direct the move-
ments of enslaved people on a plan-
tation, The Times-Picayune/The
New Orleans Advocate reports.MAINE Rockport: The Maine Fish-
ermen’s Forum will take place at the
Samoset Resort from Thursday
through Saturday.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A once-
segregated West Baltimore school
where future U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall received
his early education is set to receive
a $6 million makeover, turning His-
toric Public School 103 in Upton,
also known as Henry Highland Gar-
net School, into a legal resource
center and museum space for the
surrounding community.MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A task
force charged with reducing hate
crimes has released a set of recom-
mendations aimed at helping the
state’s schools address the problem.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Some home-
owners struggling with property
taxes can sign up for affordable
payment plans to help them stay in
their houses under new legislation.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the
“Pay as You Stay” bill Monday.MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The
Roman Catholic archbishop of St.
Paul and Minneapolis is asking
priests in the state to forgo voting in
the presidential primary election
Tuesday amid concerns about the
privacy of voter party preferences.MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: The mayor
says federal officials are responding
to his call for attention to road and
erosion damage that have closed
nearly a third of Vicksburg National
Military Park after heavy rains.MISSOURI Jefferson City: More
than 800 appeals have been filed by
companies that were denied state
permits to grow, sell or distribute
medical marijuana.
MONTANA Gardiner: Yellowstone
National Park has started capturing
bison migrating outside the park
and will hold them in pens for pos-
sible slaughter as part of a pop-
ulation reduction program.NEBRASKA Lincoln: The city’s bike-
share program is getting a boost
from the temporary use of electric-
assist bikes.
NEVADA Reno: Mormon crickets,
grasshopper-like insects that pose
threats to crops and drivers, are
hatching early this year.NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Regis-
tered Democrats now outnumber
Republicans in the state, though
even more remain independent.
NEW JERSEY Penns Grove: A state
judge has vacated an arbitrator’s
ruling that a school district cannot
fire a tenured teacher accused of
using a racial slur in class.NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The New
Mexico Forestry Division will be
planting 1,200 trees across the state
in celebration of Arbor Month.
NEW YORK Albany: The state’s ban
on plastic bags took effect Sunday,
but regulators will wait at least a
month to enforce it on store owners.NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: “Flash-
bang” grenades often used by law
enforcement officials are weapons
of “mass death and destruction,”
the state’s Supreme Court has de-
clared, reversing an appeals court.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Two
people charged in a man’s January
death have pleaded not guilty. The
Bismarck Tribune reports Earl How-
ard, 41, and Nikki Entzel, 38, plead-
ed not guilty Friday to charges filed
against them in the death of Chad
Entzel, 42.OHIO Columbus: While rates of sexu-
al victimization in the state’s youth
prisons are dropping, any victimiza-
tion is unacceptable, an official with
the Department of Youth Services
testified to a panel of lawmakers.OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Law-
makers appear divided on party lines
about how to pay for the state’s share
of Medicaid expansion.
OREGON Salem: A permit system
intended to limit crowds on the John
Day River will officially be in place
this May 1 to July 15. The first block of
permits will be available at 7 a.m.
Wednesday on Recreation.gov.PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Four
groups are asking a federal judge to
let them intervene in a lawsuit filed
against Allegheny County elections
officials by a conservative group that
wants to prune voter rolls.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: More
than $3.3 million in grants were
awarded to help communities and
local groups protect open space, ac-
cording to the state Department of
Environmental Management.SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: An
incarcerated, pregnant woman was
transported while in labor last month
to a hospital in Columbia, where she
was put in shackles. That shouldn’t
have happened, according to prison-
system officials who blamed a break-
down in communication between the
staffs at the prison and the hospital.
SOUTH DAKOTA Deadwood: The
Deadwood Mountain Grand, an en-
tertainment and lodging resort over-
looking the heart of downtown, is up
for sale, asking price $27.5 million.TENNESSEE Nashville: Lawmakers
plan this week to introduce legisla-
tion legalizing medical marijuana and
create a legal infrastructure to grow
and sell marijuana products.
TEXAS Austin: The luchador grackle
statue outside City Hall appears to
have burned to the ground in what
fire officials suspect was arson.VERMONT South Burlington: The
Vermont Air National Guard will be
doing night flight training with its
new F-35 fighter jets this month.
VIRGINIA Charlottesville: The city
will celebrate the demise of slavery
Tuesday, rather than marking Jef-
ferson’s birthday April 13, The Wash-
ington Post reports. Liberation and
Freedom Day commemorates when
Union troops arrived in the city in
1865 and freed enslaved people.WASHINGTON Yakima: A rock slab
from a ridge is continuing to slide,
but the rate of its descent has slowed
over time, officials said. A section of
Rattlesnake Ridge continues to slide
at a rate of 2 to 3 inches per week,
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Gov. Jim
Justice on Monday signed a proposal
to penalize physicians who don’t
provide medical care to a child born
after an abortion, a largely symbolic
measure due to existing laws.WISCONSIN Madison: School offi-
cials will be required to tell the public
each time students are isolated or
restrained under a new law signed
Monday by Gov. Tony Evers.
WYOMING Casper: The U.S. attor-
ney’s office in the state has an-
nounced support for the goals set by
the Northern Arapaho Tribe to stop a
worsening methamphetamine crisis.
From USA TODAY Network and
wire reportsHIGHLIGHT: UTAH
This license plate’s approval caused an uproar in Utah. MATT PACENZA VIA APSalt Lake City: State lawmakers have passed a tighter ban on personalized li-
cense plates that have disparaging words or messages after a plate partially
spelling out “deport them” sparked debate on social media. The Friday vote at the
Utah Senate sends to Gov. Gary Herbert the bill that would further restrict what
can be said on vanity plates, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The bill would ban
plates that disparage anyone based on race, color, national origin, religion, age,
gender, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or a physical or mental disability.
The current ban prohibits plates that are offensive to good taste and decency.