Shares of Williams-Sonoma rose Monday as it and three other companies were added to the benchmark
S&P 500 index
before trading opened.
Williams-Sonoma (
WSM
), a retailer whose brands include Pottery Barn and West Elm, was recently up 3.6%. The other three companies
joining the index
today—DoorDash (
DASH
), Expand Energy (
EXE
) and TKO Group (
TKO
)—were ahead nearly 4%, 1.5% and a bit less than 1%, respectively.
Those four companies replaced BorgWarner (
BWA
), Teleflex (
TFX
), Celanese (
CE
) and FMC (
FMC
). The changes were part of a periodic rebalance of the index.
Among other index changes today: Palantir Technologies (
PLTR
), Intuitive Surgical (
ISRG
) and ServiceNow (
NOW
) replaced Dow (
DOW
), Kraft Heinz (
KHC
) and Ford (
F
) in the S&P 100, an index of large American companies, while remaining in the S&P 500.
Stocks
generally rose Monday
amid the latest reevaluation of Trump administration trade policy. The S&P 500 was recently up 1.6%.
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