(Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened slightly down Tuesday, while investors remain concerned about the impact of a possible judgment of the federal government’s activities as I approach butoir time to achieve an agreement on the American budget.

In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index loses 21.08 points, or 0.05%, at 46,294.99 points and the Standard & Poor’s 500, wider, fell 0.10% to 6,654.51 points.

The Nasdaq Composite gives way 0.07%, or 15.09 points, to 22,576.06 points.

Washington is preparing for an imminent “Shutdown” of the American government, the Republicans and Democrats seeming for the moment that are unlikely to reach an agreement which would extend the financing of the administration beyond the deadline set this Tuesday at midnight.

A closure of the federal administration could unemployment hundreds of thousands of civil servants and delay the publication of a series of key data for the Federal Reserve (Fed), including the highly followed report on American employment, scheduled for Friday.

If the previous judgments have had a limited impact on the markets, some analysts have warned that the current situation could be more worrying for investors, who are looking for indices on the health of the labor market in order to anticipate the next Fed movements.

“I do not think that will disrupt the long -term market. However, this adds more uncertainty to monetary policy and budgetary policy,” said Eric Teal, director of investments at Comerica Wealth Management.

Prolonged government closure could indeed prevent the Fed from having a clear vision of the economy at its meeting on October 29.

While waiting to know if the employment report can be published on Friday, investors will be very attentive this Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. GMT at the JOLTS survey on job offers.

At the values, Spotify, which announced Tuesday that its founder and managing director Daniel Ek will leave his duties to become executive president in January, while Gustav Soderstrom and Alex Norstrom, two long-standing executives, will replace him as general co-director, fell by 2.9%.

Coty takes 1.1%, the manufacturer of cosmetics who announced Tuesday that he has launched a strategic review of his general public beauty activity, in order to focus on perfumery, more profitable.

The manufacturer of Wolfspeed fleas is advancing 28% in the aftermath of chapter 11, the bankruptcy law in the United States.

Coreweave, who announced an agreement of $ 14 billion with Meta to provide calculation power, takes more than 13% in the first exchanges, a new sign of business efforts to meet demand in artificial intelligence applications.

Echostar took 3.9% after the Bloomberg agency reported on Monday that Verizon Communications was in talks with the telecommunications services company to buy part of its wireless spectrum.

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(Written by Diana Mandiá, edited by Kate Entringer)

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