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Housing Market Jan 1, 1970 at 12:00 AM EST Live

Existing home sales in the U.S. rose 1.7% month over month in February, defying expectations for a 0.8% decline and suggesting housing demand remains resilient despite elevated borrowing costs. Meanwhile, the median price for existing homes edged up to $398,000, a 0.3% increase from a year earlier, signaling that home values are holding firm even as affordability pressures persist.

This article will be updated throughout the day, so check back often for more daily updates. 

After roaring back in yesterday’s sessions on headlines that the Iran war could be over sooner than expected, the markets are watching and waiting to see what oil will do to today. While all three of the stock market averages are treading lightly, oil has been falling for the most part. The Brent Crude oil price has retreated from the $120/barrel area back down to $92 per barrel while WTI is hovering below the $90/barrel threshold, though price movements remain extremely headline sensitive.

Tech majors including Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META), Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO and Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) are keeping the Nasdaq Composite afloat this morning. Meta scooped up an AI-agent-powered social media platform called Moltbook.

Here’s a look at where things stand as of morning trading:

Dow Jones Industrial Average: 47,503.34 Down 237.46 (-0.50%)
Nasdaq Composite: 22,674.01 Down 31.93 (-0.14%)
S&P 500: 6,768.69 Down 27.30 (-0.38%)

Tech Talk

Oracle (Nasdaq; ORCL) is down 1% ahead of the company’s earnings report after the market close today. Investors will be watching and listening for any progress around the company’s massive AI-powered data center plans, particularly for OpenAI after a partnership expansion between the companies hit a snag in recent days.

Back to technology, Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, who is set to address the industry at next week’s company event, described AI as a “five layer cake,” one that extends to energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications – aka software. Separately, reports indicate Nvidia is backing AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, with its super chips powering the company’s AI models.

According to reports, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s other company, is eyeing the Nasdaq for a future public listing in what could be the blockbuster new issue of the century. Speaking of Nasdaq, the trading platform has partnered with crypto exchange Kraken for a tokenized asset push.