Saturday, April 9, 2022

US stocks mostly lower amid unease over interest rates

File picture shows a worker cleaning the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), US, March 20, 2020. — Reuters pic
File picture shows a worker cleaning the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), US, March 20, 2020. — Reuters pic

Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates.


NEW YORK, April 8 — Wall Street stocks were mostly lower early today amid lingering unease over tightening monetary policy as US Treasury bond yields pushed higher.

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note approached 2.7 per cent, part of an ascent that has accompanied hawkish Federal Reserve statements about plans to counter inflation.

Markets also have weighed worries over Russia’s ongoing siege of Ukraine and the escalating international sanctions on Moscow, as well as fresh Chinese lockdowns due to the latest Covid-19 wave.

About an hour into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1 per cent at 34,627.90.

But the broad-based S&P 500 dipped 0.3 per cent to 4,487.78, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index declined 0.8 per cent to 13,781.81.

Stocks have shown periods of resilience this week on the sense that the unfavourable dynamics “have already been discounted in stock prices,” said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O’Hare.

“That’s a highly debatable takeaway,” O’Hare added. “We point it out simply to provide some context for why the stock market isn’t buckling to selling pressure like it did earlier in the year.” — AFP




Source: Malay Mail

A word from our sponsor:

Need Help With Your Personal Finance / Money Issue or need a coach to help you structure or just want to learn the financial skill to self manage your financial matters and retirement. iLearnFromCloud.com

Need to solve a problem quickly, now you can solve it by learning the art of problem solving Art Of Problem Solving

Feeling hungry. Latest food news from Best Restaurant To Eat Malaysian Food and Travel Blog

Memory loss. Need to organize better. Solve problem fast with Free Mind Mapping Software Mind Mapping 101

Need A Customized System Development for your business or Going Paperless XPERT TECHNOLOGIES - Empowering The Paperless Economy

No comments:

Post a Comment