U.S. stocks traded lower on Tuesday following a tug-of-war on Tuesday as market participants returned from the holidays, ending a volatile month, but last week’s strong moves still helpedDow JonesandS&P 500 IndexRecovering the lost ground this month, the monthly line is almost flat.
The U.S. stock market had a bad start in May. A series of profit warnings from corporate earnings reports made the threat of inflation lingering. Many industries such as technology and retail stocks were sold off one following another, and the S&P once fell into a bear market.
Among the 11 S&P sectors, energy was the worst performer on Tuesday, with gains in the session but soft footing in late trade, with Chevron (CVX-US) fell 2%, Schlumberger (SLB-US) fell 4%, with industrial stocks vulnerable to changes in the economic cycle falling, as Honeywell (HON-US) and Boeing fell regarding 1.4 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively, with healthcare stocks also among the laggards.
China concept stocks bucked the trend, Bilibili (BILI-US) rose 5.2%, NIO (NIO-US) and JD.com (JD-US) also rose nearly 5%.
Tuesday’s move underscored concerns that high inflation would be a drag on economic growth.EURThe district announced on Tuesday that the May inflation rate soared 8.1%, hitting a record high for seven consecutive months. The Russian-Ukrainian war continued to push up food and energy costs. On the other hand, the U.S. Michigan consumer confidence index in May was also higher than in previous months. Slightly down.
In political and economic news, EU leaders reached a compromise agreement on Tuesday to reduce Russian oil imports by more than two-thirds, but crude oil transported by land pipelines can be exempted. International oil prices rose following hearing the news, and then pared gains.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will meet at the White House later on Tuesday to discuss the state of the U.S. and global economy ahead of this week’s nonfarm payrolls report.
In terms of the epidemic, before the deadline, data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States showed that the number of confirmed cases in the world has reached nearly 530 million, and the number of deaths has exceeded 6.29 million. More than 11.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered in 184 countries worldwide.
The performance of the four major U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday (31st):
Focus stocks
The five kings of technology were mixed. apple (AAPL-US) 跌 0.53%; Meta (FB-US) fell 0.76%; Alphabet (GOOGL-US) rose 1.29%; Amazon (AMZN-US) rose 4.40%; Microsoft (MSFT-US) fell 0.50%.
Dow JonesConstituent stocks rose less and fell more. Nike(US-US) rose 2.47%; Disney (DIS-US) rose 1.02%; JPMorgan Chase (JPM-US) rose 0.73%; Salesforce (CRM-US) fell 2.94%; UnitedHealth (UNH-US) fell 2.04%; Chevron (CVX-US) fell 2.03%; Coca-Cola (KO-US) fell 2.01%.
half feeConstituent stocks were sluggish. NXP (NXPI-US) fell 3.15%; Mywell (MRVL-US) fell 2.75%; Yingcai (AMAT-US) fell 1.83%; ASML (ASML-US) fell 1.22%; Huida (NVDA-US) fell 0.74%; Broadcom (AVGO-US) fell 0.54%; Intel (INTC-US) fell 0.29%; Qualcomm (QCOM-US) rose 2.48%; Micron (MU-US) rose 0.71%.
Taiwan stocks ADR collectively closed higher. TSMC ADR (TSM-US) rose 1.63%; ASE ADR (ASX-US) rose 0.99%; UMC ADR (UMC-US) rose 0.46%; Chunghwa Telecom ADR (CHT US) rose 0.68%.
corporate news
The good news from the unblocking drove the Chinese concept stocks higher, and Weilai Automobile (NIO-US) closed up 4.95%, JD.com (JD-US) closed up 4.55%, Alibaba (BABA-US) rose 2.9 percent, Baidu (START US) rose 0.9 percent. After a two-month lockdown, Shanghai will finally be lifted on Wednesday (1st).
Unilever (ULVR-US) closed up 6.71% following the company announced the appointment of activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board of directors to discuss the company’s strategy, operations, sustainability and shareholder value.
Salesforce(CRM-US) closed lower on Tuesday, but upbeat earnings and forecasts sent shares up more than 7 percent in following-hours trading. The company announced following the market that its Q1 revenue increased by 24% to $7.41 billion, and (Non-GAAP) EPS was 98 cents, both of which were better than expected. Although the full-year revenue outlook was revised down due to exchange rate fluctuations, it also raised the full Annual profit forecast.
American Eagle Outfitters(AEO-US) closed down 7.49%, Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to “underweight” citing profit margins and sales risks, and expects the stock to fall further.
Economic data
- US March S&P Case-Shiller home price index increased 20.6% year-on-year, the previous value was 20%
- US March FHFA house price index increased 19% year-on-year, the previous value was 19.4%
- US May Chicago PMI reported 60.3, expected 55.9, the previous value of 56.4
- U.S. consumer confidence index in May reported 106.4, expected 103.9, the previous value of 108.6
Wall Street Analysis
“The market is digesting last week’s strong rally and trying to get its footing, but we’re still far from out of the woods when it comes to inflation, monetary tightening and rate hikes,” said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.
Edward Park, chief investment officer of Brooks Macdonald, believes that there is still uncertainty regarding the rapid rebound in the stock market, and whether this situation can continue, inflation is obviously a factor to be considered.
Gregory Faranello, head of U.S. rates trading and strategy at AmeriVet Securities, also said: “There is still a lot of uncertainty regarding inflation, it’s one thing to have an energy price shock, but it’s another to see the shock persist for a longer period of time.”
Faranello believes that if inflation remains high ahead of the September rate meeting, the Fed will be ready to do more unless the market is seriously misplaced.
The figures are updated before the deadline, please refer to the actual quotation
