Dow tumbles nearly 300 points as stocks fall for a third straight day and yields pop: Live updates

  • 📰 CNBC
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 29 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 15%
  • Publisher: 72%

Australia News News

Australia Australia Latest News,Australia Australia Headlines

Stocks dropped Thursday as investors digested the Federal Reserve's latest commentary that future rate hikes are not out of the picture.

Large cap tech stocks also pulled back Thursday as bond yields ran higher. Out of the "Magnificent Seven," only Alphabet shares managed to post gains, up 0.9%. Meta and Tesla shares fell 3.1% and 2.8%, respectively. Apple and Microsoft shares also lost more than 1% for the day.Bullish sentiment among individual investors nosedived in, to 35.9% looking out across the next six months, from 44.7% last week and 49.0% two weeks ago.

For contrarian investors, declining optimism and rising pessimism actually signal diminished risk in the stock market.Growing minority opinion that the Fed's going to go once more by yearend Odds of another quarter point hike at the Nov. 1 Federal Open Market Committee meeting are up to 33.3% now from 27.8% a week ago, and 31.1% by the time of the December meeting versus 24.7% last week and just 20.9% one month ago.The chance of a quarter point reduction in the overnight fed funds rate by December was only 16.5% a month ago. Today the odds stand at 8.1%.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 12. in AU

Australia Australia Latest News, Australia Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Dow ends almost 300 points lower, stocks fall for third straight day as bond yields jumpU.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday, with the selloff in equities gathered steam in late-day trade, as government bond yields touched their highest level in...
Source: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »

Dow ends nearly 300 points lower as U.S. stocks fall for 3 straight sessions with rising bond yields weighing on tech stocksU.S. stocks finished lower on Thursday, extending the losing streak to a third session as rising bond yields spurred weakness in some of the so-called...
Source: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »

Stock market today: Dow closes lower as spike in Treasury yields rattles stocks By Investing.comStock market today: Dow closes lower as spike in Treasury yields rattles stocks
Source: Investingcom - 🏆 450. / 53 Read more »

Stock market today: Dow stumbles as surging U.S. yields keep stocks in firing line By Investing.comStock market today: Dow stumbles as surging U.S. yields keep stocks in firing line
Source: Investingcom - 🏆 450. / 53 Read more »