New York (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange ended up on Friday after the publication of a mixed employment report and the announcement by Donald Trump of the upcoming establishment of new customs duties, likely to feed the ‘inflation.

The Dow Jones index sold 444.23 points or 0.99% to 44.303.40, S&P 500 57.58 points or 0.95% to 6.025.99 and the NASDAQ Composite fell from 1.36% to 19.523 , 40.

Over the past week, according to provisional data, the S&P lost 0.24%, the Dow Jones 0.54%and the NASDAQ 0.53%, a low drop thanks to a series of results of companies above expectations.

The US economy has created fewer jobs than scheduled in January – 143,000 against 170,000 expected – but the slight drop in the unemployment rate to 4% and the rise in the average salary in the private sector left estimates on unchanged rates: the Fed should not have to rush to lower rates before June, which has increased bond yields on both sides of the Atlantic.

The consumer confidence index published by the University of Michigan dropped down in February to 67.8 in the first estimate, against 71.1 in January, against expectations, in particular due to the anticipations of an increase in ‘inflation.

This fear of an increase in prices was also fed by Donald Trump’s announcement of new “reciprocal” customs duties, corresponding to the customs duties imposed by other countries on exports from the United States. We still do not know which countries would be affected.

“I will probably have a meeting on it on Monday,” said the American president at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

On the values ​​side, Uber distinguished himself on the rise (+6.6%) after the billionaire Bill Ackman, boss of the Pershing Square Capital Management fund, revealed on X having acquired 30 million shares from the VTC company.

The Amazon course fell by 4%, the online commerce giant reporting on growth in Thursday of expectations for Amazon Web Services (AWS), its dematerialized computer division (“Cloud”).

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(Written by Abigail Summerville and Shashwat Chauhan; Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the )

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