Wall St tumbles as higher Treasury yields hit tech companies

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Wall St tumbles as higher Treasury yields hit tech companies

6:30 chiều giờ GMT, 23 Tháng 10 2024

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McDonald's falls after E. coli outbreak

Coca-Cola boost revenue outlook, keeps profit forecast

Boeing falls after results; contract vote awaited

Tesla earnings expected after the bell

Indexes down: Dow %, S&P 500 %, Nasdaq %

Updated at 2:07pm ET/6:07pm GMT

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal, Purvi Agarwal and Carolina Mandl

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street fell on Wednesday, led lower by megacap stocks as U.S. Treasury yields climbed and investors grew less confident about the outlook for strong rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, while corporate news pressured McDonald's and Coca-Cola.

Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields reached a three-month high with investors reassessing the Fed rate-cut outlook over the next few months against the backdrop of strong economic data and the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

"What's driving things more than anything else is the backup in rates," said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager, Globalt Investments, adding the closer the electoral race gets, markets are likely to get more jittery.

Among rate-sensitive megacaps, Nvidia NVDA.O fell 3.9% and Apple slid 3.37%, pulling Information Technology .SPLRCT stocks 2.5% lower and dragging on the tech-laden Nasdaq.

McDonald'sMCD.N slumped5.24% after an E. coli infection linked to itsQuarter Pounder hamburgers killed one and sickened many. Coca-Cola KO.N fell 1.66% after the company reiterated its annual profit growth forecast despite expecting higher revenue.

The broader Consumer Discretionary .SPLRCD sector dropped 2.22%.

"You also have to balance the fact that the U.S. equity market is expensive on a valuation basis, so we could (be) due for profit-taking," said Michael O'Rourke, chief market strategist at JonesTrading.

Tesla TSLA.O, the first of the so-called Magnificent Seven companies scheduled to report results after market close, lost 2.53%.

At 2:07 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 564.63 points, or 1.32%, to 42,360.26, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 81.21 points, or 1.39%, to 5,769.99 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC lost 406.65 points, or 2.19%, to 18,166.48.

The benchmark S&P 500 appeared headed for its third consecutive daily decline.

U.S. markets are near record-high levels, but a combination of earnings, a changing monetary policy outlook and the upcoming presidential election will test the rally and could stoke volatility, analysts said.

Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said the central bank's fight to return inflation to its 2% target may take longer than expected, limiting interest rate cuts.

Boeing BA.N dropped 1.12% after the planemaker reported a quarterly loss of $6 billion owing to a crippling strike. Factory workers at Boeing will vote later in the day on a new contract proposal that could end the standoff after more than five weeks.

Starbucks SBUX.O fell sharply before the opening bell but pared losses and was down 0.72% the day after the coffee shop chain suspendedits annual forecast.

Semiconductorcompany Texas Instruments TXN.O gained 3.20% after its third-quarter profit beat forecasts, while AT&T T.N rose 3.56% aftergaining more wireless subscribers than expected in the third quarter.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 4.92-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. There were 82 new highs and 54 new lows on the NYSE.

The S&P 500 posted 23 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 50 new highs and 81 new lows.

Reporting by Lisa Mattackal and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur, Pooja Desai and David Gregorio

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