(Finance) – A “bad” day for the US stock market, down 1.25% on Dow Jones; on the same line, theS&P-500which slips to 5,026 points.
Negative the Nasdaq 100 (-1.05%); with similar direction, negative variations for theS&P 100 (-1.17%).
Appreciable increase in the S&P 500 for the sector utilities. At the bottom of the S&P 500 ranking, significant declines are evident in the sectors telecommunications (-4.71%), secondary consumer goods (-1.03%) e financial (-0.87%).
At the top of the rankings American giants components of the Dow Jones, Merck (+2.68%), United Health (+1.49%), Intel (+1.13%) e Wal-Mart (+0.91%).
The strongest sales, however, occur at IBMwhich continues trading at -8.91%.
Collapses Caterpillarwith a decline of 6.65%.
Sales up Microsoftwhich recorded a decline of 3.21%.
Negative session for Amazonwhich shows a loss of 2.41%.
Between protagonists of the Nasdaq 100, Astrazeneca (+5.74%), Keurig Dr Pepper (+4.65%), Nvidia (+3.38%) e Broadcom (+3.06%).
The steepest declines, however, occur at Meta Platformswhich continues the session with -11.19%.
Sales galore Comcast Corporationwhich suffers a decrease of 6.20%.
Bad performance for Sirius XM Radiowhich recorded a decline of 5.22%.
Under pressure O’Reilly Automotivewhich suffered a decline of 3.75%.
Among the data relevant macroeconomic factors on US markets:
Thursday 04/25/2024
2.30pm USA: Unemployment Claims, weekly (expected 214K units; previously 212K units)
2.30pm USA: Wholesale inventories, monthly (expected 0.2%; previously 0.4%)
2.30pm USA: GDP, quarterly (expected 2.5%; previously 3.4%)
4:00 pm USA: Home sales in progress, monthly (expected 0.3%; previously 1.6%)
Friday 04/26/2024
2.30pm USA: Personal income, monthly (expected 0.5%; previously 0.3%).