(Finance) – After a little moved opening, Wall Steet turns in red on the prospects of an escalation of commercial tensions. President Donald Trump told Republican legislators who intend to announce mutual rates, wrote Reuters, citing sources aware of the plans. The move would maintain the promise of the Trump campaign to impose rates on American imports equal to the rates that commercial partners impose on American exports. Before the bell, it emerged that the non -agricultural payroll increased by 143,000 a Januaryfalling compared to the revised level of the rise of 307,000 in December, according to the data of the Department of Labor. It is a figure lower than the expectations of analysts, equal to 169,000, while the unemployment rate decreased to 4% and the average remuneration continued to increase.
The January figures “have given continuity to the excellent figures of recent months – commented Filippo Diodovich, Senior Market Strategist of IG Italia – with the exception of the bass given on the creation of new jobs in January, all the remaining figures have shown a healthy job market. The strong revision when the new uses of the previous months (December above 300 thousand, best given from January 2023), the descent of the unemployment rate to 4% and the growth of wages very strong are encouraging figures that push the Federal Reserve a Maintain interest rates on current levels and to have no doubts about potential cuts in the cost of money “.
On the front of corporate resultsbad Amazonwhich provided for sales for the first quarter of 2025 from 151 billion to 155.5 billion dollars, weaker of estimates of $ 158.33 billion, despite the e-commerce giant has exceeded expectations for the accounts of the last quarter of 2024. Among the other quarterly, Pinterest recorded a better turnover than expected of $ 1.15 billion in the fourth quarter, exceeding the 1 billion finish for the first time, while Affirm He recorded a surprising quarterly profit in the wake of a solid season of Christmas purchases and provided for a positive annual turnover.
Looking at main indexes of Wall Streetmoves under equality the Dow Joneswhich drops to 44,447 points, with a percentage of 0.67%; On the same line, it moves in reverse the reverseS & P-500which slips to 6,038 points. Downhill the Nasdaq 100 (-1.06%); On the same line, the negative theS & P 100 (-1.01%).
Positive result in the S&P 500 basket for the sector energy. At the bottom of the ranking, the major falls occur in the sectors Secondary consumer goods (-2.00%), telecommunications (-1.36%) e informatics (-1.03%).
Al top among the Wall Street giants, Chevron (+0.95%), Cisco Systems (+0.88%) e Coca Cola (+0.84%).
The worst performances, on the other hand, are recorded on Amazonwhich gets -4.19%. Sales on Nikewhich records a discount of 2.04%. Negative session for Applewhich shows a loss of 1.69%. Modest descent for Home Depotwhich gives up a small -1.46%.
Al top among the Wall Street technological giantsare positioned Take-Tlat Interactive Software (+13.99%), Palo Alto Networks (+4.10%), Booking holdings (+3.33%) e Airbnb (+2.64%).
The strongest reductions, however, occur on Enlightenwhich continues the session with -7.91%. Black session for Marvell Technologywhich leaves a loss of 6.70%on the carpet. At loss Technology microchipwhich drops by 4.46%. Heavy Amazonwhich marks a descent of well -4.19 percentage points.