(Updates to mid-day)
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Consumer data shows jump in inflation expectations
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Nonfarm payrolls rose 143,000 in January vs 307,000 in
December
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New tariff announcements expected as soon as Friday:
Reuters
exclusive
By Stephen Culp
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Wall Street turned sharply
lower and benchmark Treasury yields jumped on Friday in the wake
of a mixed payrolls report, weak consumer sentiment data and
revived trade war jitters.
All three major U.S. stock indexes were lower, and the
selloff gathered velocity after a report that U.S. President
Donald Trump will shortly announce new tariffs.
The much-anticipated employment report showed the U.S. added
143,000 jobs in January, 53.4% fewer than December's upwardly
revised 307,000.
The report, distorted by annual benchmark revisions, along
with California wildfires and unusually cold weather, also
showed hotter-than-expected wage growth and a surprise dip in
the unemployment rate, to 4.0% from 4.1%.
"It's a mixed bag," said Rob Williams, chief investment
strategist at Sage Advisory Services in Austin, Texas, adding
the market was trying to digest the data.
"It was a miss on the headline, but the revisions over the
last two months were positive, and hourly earnings were also
up."
Trump is preparing to announce a fresh round of reciprocal
tariffs as early as Friday, according to a Reuters exclusive.
The news revived trade war jitters.
"We're going to see more volatility this year," Williams
said. "With trade, there's the bark and the bite and maybe the
bite's not going to be terrible, but there's going to be a lot
of barking."
Late Thursday, Amazon ( AMZN ) reported disappointing growth
in its cloud computing segment and provided lower-than-expected
first quarter revenue and profit.
Similar disappointments from Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Alphabet
earlier in the week have fueled suspicions that the
megacap tech and tech-adjacent stocks are losing some momentum.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 315.98
points, or 0.71%, to 44,431.65, the S&P 500 fell 50.42
points, or 0.85%, to 6,031.81 and the Nasdaq Composite
fell 257.63 points, or 1.33%, to 19,529.73.
European shares followed U.S. stocks lower in the wake of
the January employment report.
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe
fell 5.60 points, or 0.61%, to 869.97. The STOXX 600
index fell 0.38%, while Europe's broad FTSEurofirst 300 index
fell 8.54 points, or 0.39%.
Emerging market stocks rose 3.83 points, or 0.35%,
to 1,106.30. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares
outside Japan closed higher by 0.36%, to 582.10,
while Japan's Nikkei fell 279.51 points, or 0.72%, to
38,787.02.
U.S. Treasury yields rose on the strength of upward
revisions to previous-month job adds and a surprise decline in
the unemployment rate, despite the job report's disappointing
headline number.
The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes
rose 5.7 basis points to 4.495%, from 4.438% late on Thursday.
The 30-year bond yield rose 4.6 basis points to
4.6926% from 4.647% late on Thursday.
The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in
step with interest rate expectations for the Federal Reserve,
rose 6.9 basis points to 4.277%, from 4.208% late on Thursday.
The dollar gained ground in choppy trading in the wake of
the jobs report.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback
against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro,
rose 0.41% to 108.10, with the euro down 0.51% at
$1.0328.
The Japanese yen strengthened 0.11% against the
greenback to 151.31 per dollar.
Sterling weakened 0.36% to $1.2389.
The Mexican peso weakened 0.58% versus the dollar at
20.593.
The Canadian dollar weakened 0.06% versus the
greenback to C$1.43 per dollar.
In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin gained 1.08% to
$97,865.00. Ethereum declined 0.55% to $2,693.98.
Oil prices were just barely higher, but remained on track
for their third consecutive weekly decline due to tariff
worries.
U.S. crude rose 0.06% to $70.64 a barrel and Brent
rose to $74.33 per barrel, up 0.05% on the day.
Gold resumed its uphill climb as renewed trade jitters added
luster to the safe-haven metal.
Spot gold rose 0.13% to $2,860.22 an ounce. U.S. gold
futures rose 0.47% to $2,869.50 an ounce.