(Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened on Friday, while investors digest the figures on employment in the United States, the latest news from the commercial front and a series of results, including those of Amazon, who disappointed expectations on Thursday.
In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index loses 381.53 points, or 0.86%, at 43,749.45 points and the Standard & Poor’s 500, wider, fell from 0.97% to 6,277.62 points.
The Nasdaq Composite gives in 1.34%, or 283.58 points, to 20,838.87 points.
The markets digest the latest news from the data front. The American economy created fewer jobs than scheduled in July, according to official data published on Friday.
The monthly report of the Labor Department lists 73,000 non -agricultural jobs created over the month, while economists questioned by Reuters provided an average of 110,000 net creations after 14,000 in June (revised figure of 147,000).
On the commercial front, American president Donald Trump presented a decree on Friday establishing an increase in customs duties imposed on imports from dozens of countries, including Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, India and Taiwan.
In addition, investors learned of Amazon’s results on Thursday, the group having communicated a sales forecast for the current quarter greater than expectations. However, the dematerialized IT division (“Cloud”) of the American giant, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was not up to high expectations in the second quarter, during which its competitors did better than anticipated by Wall Street.
To values, the title of the American giant drops by 7.22%. On the other hand, Apple takes 1.84% after announcing on Thursday forecasts for turnover for in progress far superior to estimates.
Coinbase Global fell by 13.53% after announcing a drop in its adjusted profit for the second quarter on Thursday, the gains made on income linked to subscriptions and services having been offset by a slowdown in trading activity in a context of reduced volatility of cryptocurrencies.
(Written by Mara Vîlcu, edited by Augustin Turpin)
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