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Equity Alert: US indices end lower amid rising bond yields, higher oil prices

 

MUMBAI--0745 IST--US indices closed lower Thursday as bond yields rose once again and also as a rally in oil prices added to inflation worries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average underperformed its peers and ended 1.32% lower. The S&P 500 closed 0.87% down, while the Nasdaq Composite ended 1% lower. 

 

Bond yields rose Thursday, with the yield on 10-year treasury notes gaining more than 5 basis points to 4.704%. The yield on 30-year treasury bonds rose more than 5 bps to 5.248%, reaching its highest level in 20 years, according to a report by CNBC. The US treasury department Wednesday said that it will double its repurchase of long-term debt over the next few months. The debt buyback operation could be more than $4 billion, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to CNBC. 

 

Shares of Walmart fell more than 9% Thursday after the retail heavyweight missed Wall Street's expectations for its quarterly results as higher gasoline prices impacted retail spending, according to Reuters. This dragged down the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Other competitor retailers, like Costco, Dollar Tree, and Alberston, were also down 1–2%. Goldman Sachs fell more than 4% and put further pressure on the Dow.

 

Crude oil prices rose further on Thursday by around 2% to $93.78 per barrel, adding to the pressure. Oil prices were up more than 3?rly in the session after US President Donald Trump threatened Iran with the "MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!" Bessent told CNBC that the president's comments were being misinterpreted. "I'm not sure why oil has popped up on this. If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely there will not be a large-scale kinetic restart," Bessent told CNBC. 

 

Following are the closing levels of major US indices Thursday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
Dow Jones Industrial Average	52759.21	(-)1.32
NASDAQ Composite	26067.166	(-)1.00
S&P 500	7641.16	(-)0.87

 

(Vidhi Thacker)

 

US$1 = INR 95.71

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

 

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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