Thu OCTOBER 31, 2019 / 4:27 pm
Wall Street retreats from record on trade cloudiness
DJ: 27,186.69 +115.27 NAS: 8,303.98
+27.12 S&P: 3,046.77
+9.88 10/30
DJ: 27,046.23 -140.46 NAS: 8,292.36 -11.62 S&P: 3,037.56
-9.21 10/31
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.
stocks fell on Thursday as conflicting tones surrounding a possible trade deal
between the United States and China eclipsed strong earnings reports from Apple
and Facebook. Mixed signals around trade
gave investors reason for caution after a Bloomberg report said Chinese
officials have doubts about whether it is possible to reach a comprehensive
long-term trade deal with Washington and U.S. President Donald Trump. But Trump later said the two countries would
soon announce a site where a “Phase One” trade deal will be signed after Chile
canceled a planned summit set for mid-November that was to be the venue for a
signing.
The decline was the
second for the S&P 500 in the past seven days, after the benchmark index notched intraday record highs
in the past three sessions and a closing record in two of the past three days. “They rallied this market so much in anticipation of not
only the trade deal
- but interest rates and everything else - this market would come in very quickly if in fact, word
got out the Chinese are completely walking away,” said Ken Polcari,
senior market strategist at SlateStone Wealth LLC in Jupiter, Florida. “Today’s action, with the market down, is
absolutely nothing for anyone to get super concerned about because after the
rally we have had for two weeks, you have to suspect at some point the market
has to back off a little bit.”
The trade-sensitive industrials sector .SPLRCI lost 1.14%, while
China-exposed chipmakers also fell, sending the Philadelphia Semiconductor
index .SOX down 0.62%. However, corporate earnings were a bright
spot. Apple
Inc (AAPL.O) rose 2.26% after the iPhone maker forecast sales
for the holiday shopping quarter ahead of expectations. Facebook Inc (FB.O) gained 1.81% after
reporting an uptick in users in lucrative markets and its third straight rise
in quarterly sales growth..
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 140.46 points, or 0.52%, to 27,046.23,
the S&P 500 .SPX lost 9.21 points, or 0.30%, to 3,037.56 and
the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 11.62 points, or 0.14%, to 8,292.36.
Earnings for the
quarter are now expected to decline 0.8%, according to Refinitiv data, an
improvement from the 2.2% decline expected at the start of the month.
Data on Thursday showed a marginal rise in consumer spending in September,
casting doubts on consumers’ ability to continue driving the economy, a key
pillar of the current economic environment.
The Labor Department’s October jobs data on Friday will be closely
watched after the Fed signaled on Wednesday there would be no further cuts
unless the economy takes a negative turn.
Among other stocks, Estee Lauder Cos Inc (EL.N) fell 3.62% after the
cosmetics maker cut its forecast for full-year profit. Kraft Heinz Co (KHC.O) jumped 13.44% as the
packaged foods company said it was spending more on marketing key brands next
year, after reporting a better-than-expected third-quarter profit.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a
1.66-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.67-to-1 ratio favored decliners. The S&P 500 posted 26 new 52-week highs
and 5 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 71 new highs and 83 new
lows.
Note: It seems they’ve
stopped publishing volume data at Reuters as this is the fifth consecutive day
that there’s been no reporting. However,
per the CBOE, 7.9 billion shares were traded.
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