Börse Express – New York Stocks Conclusion: Rising number of corona cases are unsettling investors

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – After new course records at the beginning of the week, the corona pandemic put the US stock markets under pressure on Tuesday. In addition, there was surprisingly weak data from the important retail trade. The leading index Dow Jones Industrial
, which had reached another record high in the last few minutes of trading the previous day, lost 0.79 percent to 35,343.28 points.

The market-wide S&P 500 , which had also reached a record high at the beginning of the week, fell by 0.71 percent to 4,448.08 points. For the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100
it went down 0.91 percent to 15,002.83 points. The selection index temporarily slipped to its lowest level in two weeks and moved further away from the record high of early August./bek/he

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