Wall Street indexes reverse after opening higher; Dow lags, off ~0.5%
Energy leads S&P 500 sector declines; real estate up the most
In Europe STOXX falls ~0.16%
Dollar falls 0.8%, gold up ~1.5%, U.S. crude dips ~3%, bitcoin barely up
US 10-yr Treasury yield falls to 4.07%, hits lowest level since April
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Welcome to the home for real-time coverage of markets brought to you by Reuters reporters. You can share your thoughts with us at markets.research@thomsonreuters.com
WALL STREET TURNS RED, RECONSIDERS INITIAL WELCOME FOR WEAK JOBS DATA
After opening higher, U.S. stock indexes started going into reverse within the first half hour of trading and turned into negative territory before the first hour of trading was done.
The Dow .DJI was the biggest loser with heavyweights such as Nvidia NVDA.O, JPMorgan JPM.N and Microsoft MSFT.O losing the most.
While a clouder than expected August jobs report came with a silver lining of expectations for a more dovish Federal Reserve, investor optimism on that front appeared to be overcome by worries about what cracks in the labor market might mean for the economic outlook.
Gary Schlossberg, global strategist at Wells Fargo Institute told Reuters that the jobs report "pretty much cements a rate cut by the Federal Reserve at the September FOMC meeting. It would take an awfully big increase in the (Consumer Price Index) to raise doubts about that at this point."
But Schlossberg pointed to signs of "real caution" in the labor market.
"To some extent it's a deer-in-the-headlights phenomenon with companies. They don't want to let workers go just yet until they get a sense of just how the economy is going to perform but, they're not hiring either," the strategist said.
"Our view looking ahead is that the economy will lose momentum. We're not looking for a recession but we think there will be a growth slowdown later this year extending into early 2026 as some of those tariff increases are passed through to the consumer, just not as bluntly or as rapidly as we expected back in the spring."
Economically sensitive bank stocks were taking the brunt of slowdown worries with the S&P 500 bank index .SPXBK down more than 2% compared with a 0.5% drop in the broader S&P 500 .SPX. Enery .SPNY was the S&P's weakest sector on the day, down 2%.
Falling U.S. Treasury yields, however, appeared to cheer up real estate and housing market investors. The PHLX housing index .HGX, including homebuilders and building materials companies, was up 2% on the day. The rate sensitive S&P 500 real estate sector .SPLRCR was up 0.8%, leading S&P 500 sector gains.
Here is your snapshot from 12:03 p.m ET/ 1603 GMT:
(Sinéad Carew)
*****
EARLIER LIVE MARKETS POSTS:
US SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS GROWTH JUST SHY OF FIRST QUARTER CLICK HERE
SUMMER BUYBACKS HIT RECORD HIGHS AS CORPORATE AMERICA FLOURISHES CLICK HERE
STOCK FUTURES GAIN; JOBS MISS FUELS RATE CUT BETS CLICK HERE
DO EQUITY INVESTORS NEED TO WORRY ABOUT BOND SELLOFF? NAHH CLICK HERE
FRANCE COULD USE SOME MORE MARKET PRESSURE CLICK HERE
GO LONG FRENCH 30-YEAR BONDS, UBS SAY CLICK HERE
TEMENOS STANDS OUT IN SUBDUED EARLY TRADING CLICK HERE
EUROPE BEFORE THE BELL: CAUTIOUSLY HIGHER AHEAD OF PAYROLLS CLICK HERE
MORNING BID: MARKETS BET BIG ON GOLDILOCKS PAYROLLS NUMBER CLICK HERE
Wall Street equity futures rise https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/gkvlakbjmpb/Pasted%20image%201757077209844.png
Wall Street equities turn red https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/movadowrxpa/Pasted%20image%201757088262854.png
(Reporting by Sinead Carew)
((sinead.carew@thomsonreuters.com))