ASX set to slide as Wall Street drifts lower

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By Stan Choe

May 9, 2024 — 5.17am

US stocks are drifting arsenic Wall Street remains successful a lull.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.1 per cent successful day trading aft a large three-day winning streak gave mode to a tiny summation the anterior day. The Dow Jones was up by 0.3 per cent and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3 per cent. The Australian sharemarket is acceptable to retreat, with futures astatine 5am AEST pointing to a autumn of 23 points, oregon 0.3 per cent, astatine the open. The ASX added 0.1 per cent connected Wednesday.

Wall Street slid little connected Wednesday.

Uber Technologies slumped 8.6 per cent aft reporting worse results for the latest 4th than analysts expected. It besides gave a forecasted scope for bookings successful the existent 4th whose midpoint fell beneath analysts’.

Shopify tumbled 19.6 per cent contempt reporting amended nett and gross for the latest 4th than analysts expected. The company, which helps radical and businesses merchantability things online, said its gross maturation would apt dilatory this 4th and that it would apt marque little nett disconnected each $1 successful revenue.

Match Group sank 6.2 per cent contempt topping nett expectations. The institution down Tinder, Hinge and different apps gave a forecast for gross successful the existent 4th that fell abbreviated of analysts’. It said its efforts to marque Tinder amended for women and Gen Z customers successful peculiar person wounded immoderate show measurements successful the abbreviated term.

Intel fell 2.8 per cent aft saying the US Commerce Department revoked licenses for exports to a Chinese customer. That could origin its gross for the existent 4th to autumn beneath the midpoint of the forecasted scope it had earlier given.

They helped to offset Lyft, which revved 5.4 per cent higher aft topping expectations for nett and revenue. It said maturation was peculiarly beardown for early-morning, commute and weekend-evening trips.

Reddit was different victor and roseate 3 per cent aft delivering its archetypal quarterly study arsenic a publically traded company. It reported a milder nonaccomplishment and amended gross than expected, portion besides giving a stronger-than-expected forecast for gross successful the existent quarter.

Arista Networks climbed 7.1 per cent for 1 of the biggest gains successful the S&P 500 aft topping expectations for some nett and revenue.

Most companies person been reporting stronger profits for the commencement of the twelvemonth than analysts expected. That and recently revived hopes for coming cuts to involvement rates by the Federal Reserve person helped the US banal marketplace to retrieve from its unsmooth April.

Treasury yields person mostly been easing since Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said past week that it remains person to cutting its main involvement complaint than hiking it, contempt a drawstring of stubbornly precocious readings connected ostentation this year. A cooler-than-expected jobs study connected Friday, meanwhile, suggested the US system could propulsion disconnected the balancing enactment of staying coagulated capable to debar a atrocious recession without being truthful beardown that it keeps ostentation excessively high.

The output connected the 10-year Treasury recovered immoderate of those losses to adhd much unit connected the banal market. It roseate to 4.49 per cent from 4.46 per cent precocious Tuesday.

The output connected the two-year Treasury, which moves person with expectations for enactment by the Fed, roseate to 4.84 per cent from 4.83 per cent precocious Tuesday.

In banal markets abroad, indexes fell crossed overmuch of Asia. Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 1.6 per cent aft Nintendo forecast that its nett net would autumn successful the upcoming fiscal twelvemonth and announced that quality of a successor merchandise to its fashionable Switch instrumentality volition beryllium made by March 2025.

Stock indexes roseate modestly successful Europe.

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