The S&P 500 has extended today's gain to 30 points, or 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite is outperforming, up 0.75%.

Here is something the bulls will be happy to see. The AAII member survey is down to 37% bullish, which certainly isn't a red flag around sentiment, especially going into the most-bullish month of the year.

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What's difficult about this is that various sentiment survey are all over the place.

In terms of stock sectors, chipmakers are leading the way today on a report that the US restrictions on chip exports to China won't be as strict as feared.

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