Markets News, Oct. 3, 2023: Dow, S&P 500 Fall to 4-Month Lows as Bond Yields Rise on Jobs Data

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Stocks slumped and the bond rout continued Tuesday after surprisingly strong jobs data raised fears a tight labor market could put more p🐼ressure on the Fed to raise interest rates further.

The Nasdaq plummeted 1.9% Tuesday, its biggest one-day drop in two months. The 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:S&P 500 and 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 1.4% ♔and 1.3%, respectively, both dropped to 🌼their lowest levels since June.

The yield on the 30-year Treasury surged to more than 4.9%, its highest since 2007, while the 🐲10-year yield topped 4.8% for the first time since August 2007. The dollar traded sideways and oil crept up, while crypto prices fell.

Job openings unexpectedly rose in August to 9.6 million, their highest since May, raising concerns a tight labor market will continue to trouble the Fed's fight against inflation.

澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Stocks ended yesterday mixed with mega-cap tech stocks lifting the Nasdaq and the🐼 Dow slippinꦫg.

S&P 500 Gains and Losses Today

October 03, 2023 05:13 PM EDT

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A table with the S&P's biggest gainers and losers for Oct. 3, 2023.

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Dow Plunges Mo💜re Than 400 Points, Turning Negati♏ve For the Year

October 03, 2023 04:44 PM EDT

The 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 430 points, or 1.3%, plunging the index into tꦺhe red for the year, as stronger-than-expected job data dashed investors’ hopes for interest rate cuts next year. With Tuesday’s loss𓆉es, the index is down about 0.4% year-to-date.

Intel (INTC) shares moved higher by 0.7% after KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded its revenue forecast for the chipm🍸aker, citing improved product demand. 

Boeing (BA) shares gained 0.6% on reports that United Airlines (UAL) woul🐠d order 50 of its 787 Dreamliners in a major bet on air travel demand. The company also set a goal of producing a record 57 737s per month by July 2025, another sign🌄 of optimism around travel demand.

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) shares are on a three-session winning streak after rosing 0.6% today amid reports it may soon have 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:a new CEO

Shares of Goldman Sachs (GS) fell nearly 3.9% and American Express (AXP) dropped 3%, making them the index’s worst performers today. The financial sector dropped 1.7% in the session, underperforming the broader market as rising rates force banks to tighten lending standards. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) shares dipped 0.7%.

Microsoft (MSFT) shares dropped 2.6% as CEO Satya Nadella testified in the FTC’s antitrust case against Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL). Nadella warned that Google’s search monopoly ♔gave it an advantag🎃e in the race to dominate the artificial intelligence industry.

Apple (AAPL) shares declined 0.8% after it requested that apps inౠ its China app store provide ꦇproof of a government license.

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Amazon Sinks as Details of FTC Suit Emerge

October 03, 2023 03:28 PM EDT

Shares of Amazon (AMZN) sank 4% Tuesday as reports outlined the company’s use of a secret algorithm that's at the center of 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:the Fe♐deral Trade Commission's antitr𒐪ust case against the e-commerce giant.

The algorithm, nicknamed “Project Nessie,” was used until 2019 and essentially forced Amazon's competitors into a game of e-commerce chicken. The system was designed to boost revenue and pad margins by testing how much Amazon could raise prices before competitors stopped following, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Project Nessie is one of the Federal Tr🙈ade Commission’s core complaints in its case against the company, which it alleges wields its e-c🐽ommerce monopoly to raise prices for consumers and force sellers into using its services.

The Wall Street Journal cited one person familiar with Project Nessie as saying the pricing system earned Amazon at least $1 billion in revenue. The FTC’s complaint contains a redacted estimate of the “excess profit” the algorithm generated for Amazon.

Midday Market Movers

October 03, 2023 02:00 PM EDT

Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (APLS): Shares of the drug developer rose more than 5% after its Empaveli Injector was approved by the FDA as an ဣon-body device for the medicinal self-administration by💯 patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a rare blood disorder.

Utilities: Utilities stocks rebounded slightly from yesterday’s major sell-off that saw the S&P 500 Utilities Sector Index plunge nearly 5%. NiSource Inc. (NI) and FirstEnergy Corp. (FE), bꦑoth up about 3%, were the S&P 500’s best performers Tuesday afternoon. 

McCormick & Co. Inc. (MKC): Shares of the spice and food൲ seasoning company fell about 9% after its third-quarter sales fell short of analysts’ estimates. The stock was on track for its lowest close since markets plunged in March 2020.

Viatris Inc. (VTRS): Shares of the pharmaceutical company fell 6% after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied its legal challenge to Novo Nordisk’s patents behind it﷽s blockbus🅷ter weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy.

Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL): The airline’s shares fell 3% after it became the fourth major airline to disclose it has found unauthorized parts in some of its jets’ engines. American Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL), and Southwest Airlines (LUV) had previously announced similar discoveries.

Breaking Down the Jobs Report that Jolted Markets

October 03, 2023 01:16 PM EDT

The number of job openings 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:rose♋ for the first time in four months, jumping to 9.6 million in August from 8.9 million in July, reversing the previous two months of declines, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.

While job openings have been on a downward trend since peaking at more than 1🥀2 million in March 2022, they’ve stayed well above pre-pandemic levels as the chart below shows.

The jump in job openings was unexpected and mostly due to mor🐽e than 500,000 job openings being added in the professional and business services sector.

That may indicate this is more of a bump in the road to a cooling labor markeಞt than a reversal of the trend, Nick Bunker, head of economic research at the hiring lab at job hunting website Indeed, in a commentary.

“Yes, the job market is still retaining a lot of heat, but it hasn't gone back on the boil,” Bunker said.

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Dow Turns Negative For the Year

October 03, 2023 12:07 PM EDT

The Dow Jones Industrial Average 💎fell more than 350 points, or 1.1%, Tuesday morning, taking the index into negative territory for the year.

The index finished 🎉2022 at 33,147.25 and traded around 33,072ꦇ midday Tuesday.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell further Tuesday but were faring slightly better𓂃 for the year. The S&P was up more than 10% from the beginning of the year, while the Nasdaq was 25% higher than its 2022 close.

30-Year Treasury Yield Tops 4.9%

October 03, 2023 11:28 AM EDT

The yield on the 30-year꧟ Treasury bond climbed Tuesday morning to more♑ than 4.9%, a 16-year high.

10-year yields, already their highest since 2007, rose even further to 💧4.77%.

Yields jumped at exactly 10 a.m. when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Job Openings and Labor💦 Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report, which showed job openings unexpectedly rose 7% to more than 9.6 million in August. Meanwhile, the number of separations—including quits and layoffs—was nearly unchanged.

Markets and the Federal Reserve are looking for signs of a modestly weakening labor market, which officials expect will help ease price pressures and bring inflation back to the central bank's 2% goal.

Passive Funds Come Out on Top in Fight for Assets

October 03, 2023 10:45 AM EDT

Assets in passively managed fun💝ds could surpass those in active funds within a year, according to resea🅘rch from Cerulli Associates. 

As of the end of August, 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:actively🍸 managed mutual funds andꦕ ETFs held $12.79 trillion in assets while 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:passive funds held $12.33 trillion. The $462 billion difference could be made up in less than a year if flow trends persist.

Active mutual funds and ETFs saw outflows of $239.5 billion in the first 8 months of the year. Over the same period, passiv🎃e fund inflows totaled🔯 $275.9 billion. 

Yet active management has proved a better strategy in 2023 than it has in years. In the 12 months through June 2023, about 57% of active funds survived and outperformed their average index peer. That’s an impressive feat considering many of the first half’s top-performing stocks—Nvidia (NVDA), Amazon (AMZN), and Microsoft (MSFT), for example—are also major index components.

Stocks Making the Biggest Moves Premarket

October 03, 2023 09:25 AM EDT

Gains:

  • POINT BioPharma Global Inc. (PNT): Shares of the biopharmaceutical company jumped more than 84% after drug giant Eli Lilly said it would buy the company and the cancer treatments it is developing for $12.50 a share, or about $1.4 billion.
  • Warby Parker Inc. (WRBY): The online eyewear retailer’s shares rose 5% after an upgrade from analysts at Evercore ISI, who cited margin improvement and revenue growth.
  • HP Inc. (HPQ): Shares of the PC maker gained more than 2% after Bank of America upgraded the stock to buy from underperform, citing improving fundamentals. 

Losses: 

  • Airbnb Inc. (ABNB): Shares of the vacation rental platform fell more than 3% after Keybanc downgraded the stock, citing the easing of travel demand after a post-pandemic boom. 
  • McCormick & Co. (MKC): Shares of the food seasoning maker fell 5% after reporting third-quarter revenue below Wall Street’s expectations amid a sputtering economic recovery in China. 

5 Things to Know Before Markets Open

October 03, 2023 08:55 AM EDT

Here's 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:what investors need to know to start their day:

  1. 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Meta Platforms (META) is reportedly planning to start charging European users a monthly subscription fee for ad-free versions of apps like Facebook and Instagram.
  2. Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) laid off 500 workers as a result of the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, adding to the more than 2,000 workers laid off by the two companies last month.
  3. Tesla (TSLA) shares dipped 1% in premarket trading after reporting third-quarter deliveries on Monday that came in below expectations.
  4. Shares of Kellanova (K) rebounded 1% in premarket trading after its shares and those of its cereal brands spin-off WK Kellogg (KLG) 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:tumbled yesterday in their first day of trading as separate entities.
  5. The 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Job Openings and Labor Turnover Surv💙ey 👍(JOLTS) for August is projected to show job openings staying steady at 8.8 million in August when that data is released at 10 a.m. ET.

-Terry Lane

Stock Futures Slump Amid Bond Market Jitters

October 03, 2023 08:27 AM EDT

Futures contracts connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were dow🦋n 0.4% in premarket trading.

Dow futures (Oct. 3, 2023)

S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%.

S&P 500 futures (Oct. 3, 2023)

Nasdaq 100 contracts slumped 0.6%.

Nasdaq 100 futures (Oct. 3, 2023)
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