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Indexes down: Dow 0.02%, S&P 0.31%, Nasdaq 0.54%
(Updated at 09:38 a.m. ET/ 1338 GMT)
By Sruthi Shankar and Shristi Achar A
May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes fell on Wednesday,
dragged by losses in Tesla and Uber ( UBER ), while a rebound in bond
yields further pressured megacap stocks as investors sought
clarity on the Federal Reserve's rate path.
Uber ( UBER ) lost 5.4% after the ride-hailing platform
forecast second-quarter gross bookings below expectations and
posted a surprise first-quarter loss.
Tesla fell 3.1% after Reuters reported that U.S.
prosecutors were examining whether the company committed
securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers
about its electric vehicles' self-driving capabilities.
Among other megacap stocks, Microsoft ( MSFT ), Nvidia ( NVDA )
and Alphabet fell between 0.3% and 1.1%,
following a rise in the 10-year Treasury yield after
five days of declines.
The day's losses come after the S&P 500 closed higher
for a fourth straight session on Tuesday, its best winning run
since March, while the blue-chip Dow scored a fifth
session of gain in its longest positive run since December 2023.
Markets have mostly traded higher so far in May, as
investors took comfort from an upbeat earnings season as well as
a recent softer-than-expected labor market report, which
tempered concerns about the Fed keeping interest rates higher
for longer.
Traders are pricing in a 65% chance of the U.S. central bank
cutting interest rates by at least 25 basis points in September,
according to the CME Group's Fedwatch tool, up from about 54% a
week ago.
"The market has now priced in the Fed's move for the rest of
the year, so the reaction function will be lower moving forward
and investors will start to focus more on the economic and
earnings backdrop," said Dylan Kremer, chief investment officer
at Certuity.
"The bond yields aren't necessarily reflecting the expected
Fed activity..and that's primarily due to still resilient
growth."
Investors will closely monitor comments from Fed speakers --
Vice Chair Philip Jefferson, Boston President Susan Collins and
Governor Lisa Cook during the day -- for fresh clues on the
central bank's monetary easing plans.
With the earnings season at its tail-end and only a few
economic reports expected this week, markets are now awaiting
next week's consumer prices reading to gauge if inflation is
cooling.
Rate-sensitive real estate led sectoral declines,
down 0.8%.
At 09:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
fell 7.11 points, or 0.02%, to 38,877.15, the S&P 500
lost 16.17 points, or 0.31%, to 5,171.53 and the Nasdaq
Composite lost 88.08 points, or 0.54%, to 16,244.48.
Intel ( INTC ) lost 2.2% after the chipmaker said the U.S.
Department of Commerce was revoking certain export licenses for
its consumer-related items to a customer in China, a move that
would impact its second-quarter revenue.
Uber ( UBER ) rival Lyft ( LYFT ) climbed 7.8% after projecting
higher-than-expected gross bookings and a core profit for the
current quarter.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 3.08-to-1 ratio
on the NYSE and a 2.57-to-1 ratio on Nasdaq.
The S&P 500 posted 12 new 52-week highs and 2 new lows while
the Nasdaq recorded 22 new highs and 38 new lows.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Shristi Achar A in Bengaluru;
Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)