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Wall Street set for slow start as economic uncertainty weighs

September 15, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 15, 2021

By Ambar Warrick

(Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes were set for a muted open on Wednesday as a slowing economic recovery and uncertainty over higher taxes weighed on sentiment, even though signs of inflation peaking eased fears of an early cut to monetary stimulus.

The S&P 500 had sunk to a more than three-week low on Tuesday, while the Dow hit a near two-month trough as investors fretted over the potential impact of a tax hike on corporate profits.

While signs of cooling inflation have made early tapering by the Federal Reserve seem unlikely, they have also raised the question of when exactly the bank would begin scaling back its massive pandemic-induced stimulus plan.

Economically sensitive sectors such as energy rose in premarket trading after largely underperforming their peers in the previous session.

But financial stocks, particularly big banks, fell as Treasury yields retreated on expectations of loose monetary policy in the near term. [US/]

“It’s just a softening of economic activity, not just in the U.S. but globally … we still have the COVID Delta variant that’s causing problems in a lot of areas,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives for the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

“We were at all-time highs just a week-and-a-half ago, the market tends to be sensitive to any kind of news, any kind of bad economic data when it’s at all-time highs.”

U.S. S&P 500 E-minis were up 2.5 points, or 0.06%, at 8:12 a.m. ET. Dow E-minis were down 23 points, or 0.07%, while Nasdaq 100 E-minis were up 21.25 points, or 0.14%.

U.S.-listed Chinese stocks extended recent losses, as weak retail sales data pointed to a possible economic slowdown in the mainland.

A growing debt crisis in the country’s No. 2 property developer, China Evergrande Group, has raised fears of a possible impact to major lenders.

“The Asian banks will get hit hard if there’s a default, but then there will be a 10-year recovery process. The market’s getting a hang of it. The way they’ve managed the news flow seems quite clever. They haven’t let a swathe of bad news at once,” said Keith Temperton, sales trader at Forte Securities.

Concerns over Evergrande’s default have further dented appetite for Chinese stocks after a series of regulatory moves by Beijing against major technology firms wiped out billions in market value this year.

But U.S. technology stocks have fared better than other sectors this month, with investors preferring relatively safer spaces due to seasonally weak trends in September.

Apple Inc rose around 0.1% after tumbling 1% in the last session on a somewhat lukewarm response to the unveiling of its Phone 13 and a new iPad mini.

Among other movers, lending platform GreenSky Inc shot up more than 44% after Goldman Sachs Group Inc said it will buy the firm in an all-stock deal valued at $2.24 billion.

Goldman Sachs shares fell 0.9%.

(Reporting by Ambar Warrick and Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur and Maju Samuel)

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David Barret
David Barret

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