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Equity Alert: US mkts end lower Fri on fall in tech stocks, inflation worries

 

MUMBAI--0739 IST--Benchmark indices in the US ended lower Friday with fall in technology stocks being a major drag and a rise in US Treasury yields adding pressure on the market after some policymakers speak out against easing of monetary policy by the central bank in the near future. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended more than 1% lower on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.51% lower. 

 

US Treasury yields rose Friday after a group of Federal Reserve officials, who had voted against an interest rate cute at the latest monetary policy meeting of the central bank, expressed their worries that inflation remains too high to warrant lower borrowing costs, Reuters reported. In the Nasdaq index, shares of Broadcom fell over 11% after the chipmaker warned of lower margins in future. This led to concerns about the profitability of surging artificial intelligence investments, as per the Reuters report. 

 

Technology major Oracle fell 4.5?ter the cloud software company's weak financial forecast. The stock was also under pressure due to a Bloomberg report saying the company's data centres for ChatGPT's OpenAI were being delayed. The company had denied the report. 

 

The Labour Department's report on non-farm payrolls, consumer inflation and retail sales data are due this week. These data can offer greater insight into the US economy after the October government shutdown, which led to a delay in the release of data that starved the investors. 

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Friday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S%P 500	6827.41	(-)1.07
NASDAQ Composite	23195.169	(-)1.69
Dow Jones Industrial Average	48458.05	(-)0.51

 

(Adhithya Aji)

 

US$1 = INR 90.41

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

 

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