PARIS (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened in dispersed order Thursday with low gains for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and Nasdaq indices, in a context of wait -and -see before the publication of the official monthly report on American employment Friday.
In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index lost 37.78 points, or 0.08%, at 45,233.45 points.
Standard & Poor’s 500, larger, increased by 5.51 points, or 0.09%, to 6,453.77 points.
The Nasdaq Composite takes 27.23 points, or 0.13%, at 21,524.96 points.
Key statistics in the United States on the creations of non-agricultural positions, the unemployment rate and the evolution of wages will be published on Friday. In the meantime, weekly unemployed registrations show an increase of 237,000 during the week for August 30 against 229,000 the previous week. The ADP cabinet, for its part, said Thursday that the private sector had created fewer jobs than expected in August, 54,000 after 106,000 in July.
These two indicators bear witness to a slowdown in the labor market while the traders are now betting with a probability of 97% on a drop in loan costs of the American Federal Reserve (Fed) at the meeting of September 16-17.
On the bond market, the yield of treasury bills is falling by approximately two basic points (PB), at 4.19%, and the one at 30 years old declines 2.3 pb, at 4.87%, while this last maturity had exceeded the very monitored threshold of 5%on Wednesday.
The interventions expected during the day of Fed officials like John Williams and Austan Goolsbee are also monitored, as is the hearing of economist Stephen Miran before the Senate for his confirmation to take the seat of the Fed Adriana Kugler’s governor, who resigned last month.
At values, Salesforce weighs on the trend, with a fall of 7.70%. The “cloud” specialist has announced to anticipate a turnover for the current quarter of expectations, noting a delay in monetizing its AI agent platform. This is reflected in the semiconductor sector (-0.60%) and that of technological new (-0.13%).
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, however, nibbles 0.70% thanks to a quarterly than expected quarterly turnover.
American Eagle Outfitters flies 32.08%, the clothing manufacturer who has announced to expect comparable sales in the current quarter to forecasts.
(Written by Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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