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Adobe up after lifting full-year revenue forecast
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Arm shares gain as stock to join Nasdaq 100 index
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US consumer sentiment ebbs in June; inflation worries
linger
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For the week: Dow set to fall, S&P and Nasdaq to rise
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Indexes down: Dow 0.33%, S&P 0.30%, Nasdaq 0.17%
(Updated at 12:03 p.m. ET/1603 GMT)
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Johann M Cherian
June 14 (Reuters) -
U.S. stock indexes fell on Friday, with the Nasdaq and the
S&P 500 slipping from record highs as investors booked profits
and weighed hawkish Federal Reserve projections against slowing
economic data.
Limiting losses on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, Adobe
jumped
14.5
% and was on track to mark its biggest one-day jump in four
years after the company
raised its annual revenue forecast
on more demand for its AI-powered software.
The Nasdaq and S&P 500 were set for their
first session in the red this week, after both notching four
consecutive record closing highs.
"What we're seeing is some mild profit taking, we've had
a good run up and set record highs almost every day this week,"
said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital
Securities.
The week's strong performance came as markets persisted
with expectations of a September start to policy easing - seeing
an over 70% chance of a cut at that meeting, as per the CME's
FedWatch tool - while traders are pricing in two cuts by
year-end.
However, that clashed with the central bank's own
forecasts released on Wednesday, where policymakers dialed back
their projections for three cuts this year to just one.
Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said the trend of
inflation moving lower is good news for the economy and the
central bank.
Hopes of easing Fed policy, combined with megacaps'
strength, have seen major indexes rally with the S&P 500 and the
Nasdaq on pace for their seventh week of gains out of eight.
"The market is also just pricing in a probability, even if
it's a small one, of a second half recession where the Fed has
to cut rates a lot," said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy
analyst at Baird.
The blue-chip Dow was on track to end the week lower.
A preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's
Consumer Sentiment Index
slipped to 65.6 in June, sharply lower than expectations.
Nine of the 11 S&P 500 sectors fell, led by a
1.6
% slide in industrials, and the economically
sensitive small-cap Russell 2000 index lost
1.8
%.
At 12:03 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
was down 126.96 points, or 0.33%, at 38,520.14, the S&P
500 was down 16.29 points, or 0.30%, at 5,417.45, and the
Nasdaq Composite was down 30.57 points, or 0.17%, at
17,636.99.
Among others, Broadcom ( AVGO ) extended Thursday's gains
with a 1.7% rise after an upbeat forecast and announcing a
10-for-one stock split.
Sirius XM slipped 0.8% after the Nasdaq said the
stock would be removed from the Nasdaq 100 index, and replaced
with Arm Holdings. Shares of Arm rose 2.2%.
Comments from Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and
Fed Governor Lisa Cook are also expected on Friday.
A BofA Global Research report showed U.S. value stock funds
saw $2.6 billion of outflows, while investors poured $1.8
billion into U.S. growth stock funds in the week to Wednesday.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 3.34-to-1
ratio on the NYSE and for a 2.77-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded eight new 52-week highs and 16
new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 19 new highs and 149 new
lows.