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(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock | |
markets, click or type LIVE/ in a news window.)*PCE index up 0.6% m-o-m in Jan after 0.2% rise in Dec*Boeing slides on 787 Dreamliner jets temporary halt*Adobe falls as DoJ to block Figma deal - report*Indexes down: Dow 0.91%, S&P 1.04%, Nasdaq 1.56%Feb 24 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on | |
Friday, on course for their worst weekly performance of the | |
year, as data signaling strong consumer spending and inflation | |
sparked worries that the Federal Reserve will stick to its | |
hawkish stance for longer.All the three indexes were set for weekly declines of around | |
3% each, with the blue-chip Dow on track for its biggest | |
weekly decline in five months.After a strong performance in January, stocks have retreated | |
this month as a slew of economic data amplified worries that the | |
U.S. central bank might have to keep rates higher for longer | |
amid signs of sticky inflation and a resilient labor market.Data on Friday showed the personal consumption expenditures | |
(PCE) price index, the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation, shot | |
up 0.6% last month after gaining 0.2% in December.Another set showed consumer spending, which accounts for | |
more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 1.8% last | |
month, higher than the economists' forecast of a 1.3% rise."The headline and core PCE numbers were well above | |
expectations. What worries us most is that the data since the | |
last Fed meeting has been extremely strong," said Gene Goldman, | |
chief investment officer at Cetera Investment Management."If the Fed had this data at the last meeting they probably | |
would've raised by 50 bps and the tone from the press conference | |
would've been a lot different."Traders of futures tied to the Fed's policy rate added to | |
bets that the central bank will raise rates at least three more | |
times this year, with the peak rate seen in the range of | |
5.25%-5.5% by June.Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said the Fed should | |
err on raising interest rates higher than necessary if need be | |
in order to get inflation fully under control.At 11:52 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average | |
was down 302.42 points, or 0.91%, at 32,851.49, the S&P 500 | |
was down 41.64 points, or 1.04%, at 3,970.68, and the | |
Nasdaq Composite was down 181.32 points, or 1.56%, at | |
11,409.09.All the 11 major S&P sectors fell, with technology | |
and consumer discretionary indexes leading losses.Megacap stocks including Tesla Inc, Amazon.com Inc | |
and Nvidia Corp slid in the range of 1.3% and | |
2.3% as Treasury yields rose.The yield on two-year Treasury notes, which are | |
highly sensitive to Fed policy, climbed to 4.826% - its highest | |
in nearly four months.Boeing Co slid 4.3% after the Federal Aviation | |
Administration said the planemaker temporarily halted deliveries | |
of its 787 Dreamliner jets.Beyond Meat Inc surged 13.5% as the plant-based | |
meat maker's results indicated that its cost-control measures | |
were finally bearing fruit.Adobe Inc sank 7.3% on reports the U.S. Justice | |
Department would block the Photoshop maker's $20 billion bid for | |
cloud-based designer platform Figma.Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 4.28-to-1 ratio | |
on the NYSE and 3.19-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.The S&P index recorded one new 52-week highs and seven new | |
lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 26 new highs and 131 new lows. | |
(Reporting by Johann M Cherian and Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru, | |
additional reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Arun Koyyur and | |
Sriraj Kalluvila) |