01:29 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Energy stocks were higher Friday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index rising 0.9% and the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) up 0.7%. The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector index climbed 1.5%, and the Dow Jones US Utilities index was adding 0.4%. Front-month West Texas Intermediate crude oil was declining 2.1% to $58.00...

12:42 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Block (XYZ) shares fell 21% in recent Friday trading after multiple analysts downgraded the stock. Among those that cut the stock's rating were BMO, to market perform from outperform; Seaport Global, to neutral from buy; and Benchmark, to hold from buy. Intraday trading volume was about 35.4 million shares against a daily average...

12:35 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US equity indexes rose in Friday midday trading as strong jobs data countered bearish signals from Apple (AAPL) and Amazon.com (AMZN). The Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.8% to 18,020.9, the S&P 500 rose 1.6% to 5,693.1 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.5% to 41,372.6. All sectors rose with communication services, financials and...

01:14 PM EDT, 05/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Broad Market Indicators Broad-market exchange-traded funds IWM and IVV rose. Actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) was up 1.7%. US equity indexes rose in Friday midday trading as strong jobs data countered bearish signals from Apple ( AAPL ) and Amazon.com ( AMZN ) . Energy IShares US Energy ETF (IYE) and the...