(Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened almost unchanged Tuesday after a session marked the day before by the development of the technological sector, while investors focus on the speech of the president of the Federal Reserve (Fed) planned for the evening.

In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index earns 68.06 points, or 0.15% to 46,449.60 points and the Standard & Poor’s 500, wider, fell from 0.02% to 6.692.70 points.

The Nasdaq Composite gives way 0.04%, or 9.81 points, to 22,779.16 points.

The New York Stock Exchange evolves Tuesday in peace in the first transactions, the NASDAQ is slightly backing compared to records recorded on Monday after the announcement by NVIDIA of an investment of up to $ 100 billion in Openai.

The partnership between the technological giant and the startup of artificial intelligence, owner of Chatgpt, however arouses fears in the sector, the experts believing that it could give the two companies a disloyal advantage over their competitors.

Without losing sight of the technology, the session will above all be marked by economic policy, since Jerome Powell, president of the Fed, will be expressed at 4:35 pm GMT on economic prospects, while investors assimilate a series of comments from Fed officials, who are not all necessarily going in the same direction with regard to the appropriate evolution of interest rates.

The Fed said last Wednesday that it would gradually lower its rates during the year after a first reduction of 25 base points this month and analysts are betting on an identical drop at the end of the next meeting scheduled for October 28 and 29.

However, Fed officials questioned the need for these possible new decreases in a context of high inflation on Monday, while the new governor Stephen Miran warned that current monetary policy could be too restrictive and pleaded in favor of a more aggressive approach.

Michelle Bowman, vice-president of the Fed responsible for supervision, said Tuesday that the institution could arrive too late to support the labor market and may have to accelerate the rate of rate cuts.

“It is time for the Committee to act decisively and proactive to deal with the decline in the dynamism of the labor market and the emerging signs of fragility,” she said, referring to the slowdown in hires.

At the values, Nvidia sold 1.3% after taking almost 4% the day before thanks to the announcement of an investment in Openai.

Kenvue rebounds 6% on Tuesday in the first exchanges, the day after a fall of 7.5% in reaction to the words of President Donald Trump which claims that there would be a link between the use of Tylenol, the an up – – -way analgesic of the laboratory, and the development of autism during pregnancy. This assertion is challenged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and by many doctors.

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(Written by Diana Mandiá, edited by Kate Entringer)

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