us stocks pared some earlier losses toward the end trading with the nasdaq jumping 2 on thursday us president biden during his press briefing on ukrainerussia said he has authorized additional us military deployments today after russia’s president vladimir putin announced that the country’s armed forces would carry out a “special military operation” in ukraine the dow traded down 066 to 3291279 while the nasdaq rose 2 to 1329818 the sp also rose gaining 035 to 424012 check out this insiders buy more than 170m of 4 stocks communication services shares climbed by 09 on thursday meanwhile top gainers in the sector included globalstar inc nyse gsat up 17 and tremor international ltd nasdaq trmr up 13 moderna inc nasdaq mrna reported betterthanexpected results for its fourth quarter and announces a new 3 billion buyback program moderna posted quarterly earnings of 1129 per share beating analysts’ estimates of 990 per share the company’s quarterly sales came in at 720 billion versus expectations of 679 billion moderna also raised its 2022 signed advance purchase agreements to around 19 billion with additional signed options of about 3 billion transmedics group inc nyse tmdx shares shot up 26 to 1579 following strong quarterly sales shares of south jersey industries inc nyse sji got a boost shooting 40 to 3295 after the company announced it will be acquired by the infrastructure investments fund south jersey industries also reported upbeat quarterly earnings lantheus holdings inc nasdaq lnth shares were also up gaining 35 to 3894 after the company reported betterthanexpected q4 eps and sales results and issued q1 adjusted eps and sales guidance and fy22 sales guidance above estimates also check this tesla and 4 other stocks sold by insiders orphazyme as nasdaq orph shares tumbled 33 to 13601 as the company said it has been notified by the european medicines agencys committee for medicinal products for human use of a negative trend vote on marketing authorization application for its investigational product candidate arimoclomol for the treatment of niemannpick disease type c shares of bandwidth inc nasdaq band were down 33 to 3137 after the company issued a weak q1 forecast versus systems inc nasdaq vs was down falling 41 to 12150 as the company reported the pricing of its public offering also check out 5 penny stocks insiders are buying in commodity news oil traded up 22 to 9415 while gold traded up 06 to 192120 silver traded down 01 thursday to 24535 while copper fell 02 to 44740 european shares closed lower today the eurozone’s stoxx 600 dropped 328 london’s ftse 100 fell 388 while spain’s ibex 35 index fell 286 the german dax tumbled 396 french cac 40 fell 383 and italy’s ftse mib index dipped 414 the consumer confidence index in france declined by 1 point to 98 in february while the cbi distributive trades survey’s retail sales balance in the uk declined to 14 in february from 28 in the previous month the us economy expanded an annualized 7 on quarter during the fourth quarter up from 69 in the advance estimate us initial jobless claims fell by 17000 to 232000 in the week ended february 19th the chicago fed national activity index in rose to 069 in january from a revised level of 007 in the prior month new home sales dropped 45 to an annual rate of 801000 in january us naturalgas stocks dropped 129 billion cubic feet last week the energy information administration said us crude oil inventories increased 4515 million barrels in the week ended february 18th the eia said federal reserve governor christopher waller will speak at 800 pm et check out this 5 penny stocks insiders are buying check out the full economic calendar here the us has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world reporting a total of 80372400 cases with around 966530 deaths india confirmed a total of at least 42881170 cases and 512950 deaths while brazil reported over 28485500 covid19 cases with 646490 deaths in total there were at least 430661700 cases of covid19 worldwide with more than 5939600 deaths