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S&P 500, Dow slip as monthly jobs growth slows; tech stocks lift Nasdaq

September 3, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 3, 2021

By Shashank Nayar

(Reuters) -The S&P 500 and the Dow fell on Friday as a slowdown in U.S. jobs growth raised questions about the pace of the economic recovery, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped as the report also calmed fears of an imminent tapering in monetary policy.

Eight of the 11 S&P sectors were down in morning trading, with real estate and utilities stocks leading declines.

Banking stocks, which generally perform better when bond yields are higher, dropped 0.1% even as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield jumped following the report. [US/]

“The number’s a big disappointment and it’s clear the Delta variant had a negative impact on the labor economy this summer,” said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.

“You can tell because leisure and hospitality didn’t add any jobs and retail actually lost jobs. It suggests areas that are highly sensitive to the pandemic suffered as the Delta variant surged.”

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq had scaled all-time highs over the past few weeks on support from robust corporate earnings, but investors had recently grown cautious on hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve and the jump in infections.

The labor market remains the key touchstone for the Fed, with Chair Jerome Powell hinting last week that reaching full employment was a pre-requisite for the central bank to start paring back its asset purchases.

On Friday, the Labor Department’s closely watched report showed nonfarm payrolls increased by 235,000 jobs in August, widely missing economists’ estimate of 750,000. Payrolls had surged 1.05 million in July.

At 10:25 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 61.21 points, or 0.17%, at 35,382.61, the S&P 500 was down 4.77 points, or 0.11%, at 4,532.18, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 19.31 points, or 0.13%, at 15,350.48.

Technology heavyweights, including Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook, rose as much as 0.4%. Tech stocks tend to perform better in a low interest-rate environment.

Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Global gained 6.0% after a media report that the city of Beijing was considering moves that would give state entities control of the company.

Biotechnology firm Forte Biosciences slumped 81.1% to be among the top decliners across U.S. exchanges after its experimental treatment for eczema, a skin disease, failed to meet its main goal.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.67-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.36-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 26 new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 70 new highs and 11 new lows.

(Reporting by Shashank Nayar in Bengaluru and Stephen Culp in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Sagarika Jaisinghani and Arun Koyyur)

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David Barret
David Barret

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