Wall Street closed this Wednesday in red and the Dow Jones Industrials, its main indicator, lost 1.81% as fear of recession once again prevailed in the market.
At the close of operations on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones cut 613.89 points, up to 33,296.96 units, while the selective S&P 500 fell 1.56% or 62.11 whole points, up to 3,928.86 points .
The Nasdaq composite index, which brings together the large technology companies, fell 1.24% or 138.10 units, to 10,957.01 integers.
The New York parquet began the day with gains, but investors changed their minds and bet on share sales, intensifying the falls in the last minutes of operations.
Analysts said worse-than-expected sales figures for the retail sector at Christmas time and the large number of layoffs being carried out by Microsoft and Amazon played a role.
The opinions of two Federal Reserve officials who advocated continuing with the aggressive policy of raising interest rates, despite the fact that inflation is subsiding, were also echoed.
All sectors fell, led by companies of essential goods (-2.65%), public services (-2.41%) and industrial (-1.84%).
Among the 30 Dow Jones stocks there were no winners either, with the biggest losses going to Honeywell (-3.77%), IBM (-3.33%), 3M (-3.06%) and JPMorgan (-3.02%). ).
In other markets, Texas oil fell to $79.48 a barrel, and at the close of the stock market gold fell to $1,906.10 an ounce, the ten-year bond yield fell to 3.372% and the dollar depreciated against the euro, with a change of 1,079.
With information from EFE / Photo: EFE / JAC
