** S&P 500 .SPX snaps three-week winning streak, retreats 1.6% as jitters over stretched tech valuations, the economy curb risk appetite .N
** Dow .DJI falls 1.2%, while tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite .IXIC tumbles 3% for its worst week since early Apr
** U.S. 10-Year Treasury yield US10YT=RR ticks lower to end around 4.09%. Yields fell on Thurs on worries over a weakening U.S. labor market, along with uneasiness around the government shutdown and legality of President Trump's tariffs US/
** In the end, only a minority of sectors perturbed: Technology most agitated, while defensive plays exhibit composure
** Tech .SPLRCT tanks 4.2%. AI darling Palantir PLTR.O slides from peak after qtrly results surpass Wall Street's expectations; "Big Short" investor Michael Burry discloses bearish bets against PLTR and Nvidia NVDA.O
AI server maker Super Micro SMCI.O plummets 23% on week after qtrly miss on GPU delivery delays
Qualcomm QCOM.O falls despite upbeat qtrly forecast as potentially smaller Samsung 005930.KS business weighs
Semiconductor index .SOX sheds nearly 4%
** Consumer Discretionary .SPLRCD drops 1.5%. DoorDash DASH.O dives after Q3 profit miss on mounting costs, new investment plan unnerves investors
Tesla TSLA.O down; shareholders approve CEO Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package
Though Amazon.com AMZN.O leaps on Mon after $38 bln AWS deal with OpenAI. AMZN ekes out fractional weekly gain
And McDonald's MCD.N rises slightly after Q3 global comp sales beat, aided by value meal offers
** Consumer Staples .SPLRCS up 0.8%. Tylenol-maker Kenvue KVUE.N jumps on nearly $49 bln buyout deal from Kleenex tissue maker Kimberly-Clark KMB.O, but KMB slumps
** Meanwhile, investor optimism wanes in latest week - AAII survey
** SPX performance YTD:
Tech | 23.8% |
Comm Svcs | 23.7% |
Utils | 18.2% |
Industrials | 16.3% |
SPX | 14.4% |
Financials | 9.0% |
Healthcare | 6.0% |
Discretionary | 5.5% |
Energy | 4.6% |
Materials | 2.6% |
Real Estate | 1.6% |
Staples | 0.2% |
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com))