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The US shares fell the most in two months because he showed out gloomy economic data among consumers, and the companies cooled a month in Donald Trump’s Presidency.
The S&P 500 fell 1.7 percent on Friday, the worst plot of the Blue Chip index on Wall Street from December 18, when federal reserves reduced interest rates, but signaled a slower pace relief of monetary policy in 2025.
Nasdaq composite focused on technology dropped by 2.2 percent in its fiercest slide from January 27, when Great technology Stocks were affected as worries about the progress of Chinese starting artificial intelligence Deep-up Deepseek spoiled the sector.
Sharp declines came as a series of reports, stated that the world’s greatest economy He is facing growing winds from elevated rates and inflation. Trump’s tariffs also began to alleviate feelings among consumers and companies.
The data published on Friday showed that the sale of homes of the earlier ownership fell 4.9 percent in January from the previous month, while customers fought with permanently high mortgage rates and elevated prices in large parts of the country.
Meanwhile, a carefully observed consumer confidence measure issued by the University of Michigan has dropped sharply in February since January. The study also found that long -term expectations of inflation reached the highest level since 1995.
“The short answer is that the consumer has problems,” said the chief economist of Interactive Broker Steve Sosnick, pointing to less information, including soft retail data last week.
Separately, closely observed research by S&P Global indicated that the activity in the large US sector contracted the fastest pace in more than two years. Manufacturers noted that the input costs suddenly increased as a result of increasing price and salary pressure.
“A distinct mood seen among US companies at the beginning of the year evaporated, replaced with a darkened picture of enhanced uncertainty, stopping business activities and growing prices,” said Chris Williamson, the main business economist in S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Reflecting the width of the sale on Friday, almost four of the five S&P 500 stocks decreased, and the small Russell 2000 aimed at CAP, consisting of groups concentrated on the Domoče, fell more than 2 percent.
Friday also marked the expiration date for a large number of shares options. Such sessions often tend to characterize them unstable strokes of stock prices.
The prevalence was accompanied by a set in the treasures in the treasury, as investors sought relative safety of government debt, and at the end of the week continuous geopolitical insecurity.
President Donald Trump said this week that he would introduce 25 percent of car imports – as early as April 2 – and also marked the prospect of installing the levies on imported semiconductors and medicines. Now they also said they would impose huge tariffs against Mexico and Canada, his greatest trade partners.
The administration also reduced thousands of federal workers, and Trump aroused the political nerves by opening peacekeeping negotiations with Russia at the end of the Ukraine war and called President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “dictator.”
The yield on the reference 10-year-old US Treasury has been reduced by 0.08 percentage points to more than two weeks lower than 4.42 percent.
Government bonds have also grown in Europe. The yield on a 10-year pumpkin decreased by 0.08 percentage points to 2.45 percent ahead of Germany Federal choices On Sunday, for which surveys show that they will refute the Christian democratic unification of the right center.
Unlike his American peers, a wide meter of the largest stock in Europe has closed on Friday, although Dax from Germany has closed slightly lower.
Additional reporting Jennifer Hughes in New York