“Wall Street stocks edged lower on Thursday, with the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note hitting its highest level since April in quiet post-Christmas trading.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Wall Street stocks edged lower on Thursday, with the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note hitting its highest level since April in quiet post-Christmas trading. This is reported by the Reuters agency. The moderate but broad-based decline dragged down all three major U.S. stock indexes, despite the so-called “Christmas rally,” when stocks typically rise on low liquidity, tax loss optimization and annual bonus investments. Uncertainty surrounding the policies of President-elect Donald Trump helped gold prices rise and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to near an 8-month high.Advertisement: “Volume is light and we are now recovering some of the earlier losses due to profit-taking after Tuesday’s rally,” — noted Peter Cardillo, chief economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York. “I think we are still in the framework of the ‘Christmas rally’, although there were some difficulties today. It can be said that the upswing of the market until the end of the year will probably continue.” With just a few trading days left before the end of the year, the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow are poised for respective gains of 33%, 26% and 14% in 2024.Advertisement: The main concerns for 2025 are the degree to which the Federal Reserve eases monetary policy , tariffs and other measures by the Trump administration, as well as geopolitical tensions. On the economic front, the number of new claims for unemployment benefits came in slightly below analysts’ expectations, but the number of current claims reached the highest level since November 2021. This shows that it is becoming more and more difficult for laid-off workers to find a new job. We will remind: On Thursday, gold prices rose against the background of increased demand for safe assets and low trading volumes after the Christmas holidays.