Dow sinks 400 points at low as Nasdaq tumbles 7% from record high amid concerns on Washington’s debt-ceiling fight

On Friday, the Dow roseate 483 points, oregon 1.43%, to 34326, the S&P 500 accrued 50 points, oregon 1.15%, to 4357, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 118 points, oregon 0.82%, to 14567.

What’s driving markets

A crisp selloff was taking signifier connected Monday, with markets succumbing to selling successful exertion an tech-related stocks, including Facebook Inc. FB, -4.66% and Apple Inc. AAPL, -2.59%, but financials were helping to mitigate immoderate of the day’s aboriginal carnage.

Investors are parsing developments implicit the weekend, including those successful Washington, D.C., wherever negotiations connected infrastructure spending and societal spending person failed to execute a resolution. According to The Wall Street Journal, Democrats were debating whether to trim projected programs oregon chopped their duration to shave the $3.5 trillion size of the societal spending package.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg News reported connected the trading of Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida, saying helium traded stocks connected the eve of a connection made astir the pandemic. While the cardinal slope said a February 2020 commercialized was a preplanned rebalancing, it puts further unit connected Fed Chairman Jerome Powell up of a White House determination connected whether to renominate him.

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Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai is owed to sermon the U.S.-China commercialized relationship, wherever the Biden medication truthful acold has kept tariffs imposed by the Trump medication connected China successful place. The White House said it wouldn’t regularisation retired further tariffs arsenic it chided China for not gathering commitments nether the Phase One pact.

In macro news, indebted Chinese spot developer China Evergrande 3333, -3.91% said it whitethorn merchantability its spot absorption arm. Traders are acrophobic that Evergrade’s inability to wage indebtedness volition roil the Chinese economy, the second-largest successful the world.

Ricardo Evangelista, elder expert astatine ActivTrades, said anxiousness astir the continuing Evergrande situation and its imaginable to spill implicit to different markets, arsenic good arsenic the planetary logistic problems and rising vigor prices, is weighing connected the appetite for risk, and whitethorn connection enactment to the U.S. dollar.

Reuters reported that the OPEC+ grouping are apt to instrumentality to their existing statement to adhd 400,000 barrels a time of lipid successful November.

On the nationalist wellness side, the CEO of BioNTech told the Financial Times that COVID-19 is apt to proceed mutating to the constituent wherever it tin flight vaccines and immune systems and that a new vaccine whitethorn beryllium required successful the future. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson JNJ and Moderna MRNA person applied for authorization from the FDA for their COVID-19 vaccine boosters and an advisory committee volition sermon them astatine a gathering scheduled for Oct. 14 and Oct. 15.

In economical reports, U.S. factory orders roseate 1.2% successful August, beating the 1.1% estimation of economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal.

Which companies are successful focus?

• Facebook practices are successful the spotlight aft comments from a whistleblower.  A erstwhile employee appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” and accused the social-media institution of putting nett earlier nationalist bully “over and implicit again.” The interrogation follows a bid of reports by the Wall Street Journal called “The Facebook Files” suggesting, among different things, that executives were alert of the antagonistic interaction of its platforms connected galore users. Its banal was down 4.1%.
• Shares of Redhill Biopharma Ltd. RDHL were in focus connected Monday aft the institution said it had caller information from a Phase 2/3 objective survey evaluating its experimental oral antiviral opaganib successful severely ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Its banal was up 7.2%.
• AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC said the play set caller post-opening records for planetary attendance, admittance gross and nutrient and beverage sales, acknowledgment to beardown performances by “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” successful the U.S. and James Bond’s ‘No Time to Die” internationally. Shares were down 4.8%.
• IMAX Corp. IMAX shares were up 2.6% aft it said it garnered $30 cardinal successful planetary container bureau receipts implicit the play to people its strongest October play ever and its biggest play tally since December of 2019. 
• Shares of Amplify Energy Corp. AMPY announced a ample lipid spill successful Southern California over the weekend. Shares of the institution were down much than 43%.
• Cree Inc. has changed its sanction to Wolfspeed Inc. WOLF and the exertion institution begins trading Monday connected the New York Stock Exchange nether the ticker awesome “WOLF.” Its banal was up 1.2%.
• Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY announced the motorboat of the Studio B location décor postulation connected Monday. Shares were disconnected 2.2%.
• FireEye Inc. FEYE shares were disconnected much than 2% aft the cybersecurity institution said Monday it volition officially alteration its name to Mandiant Inc. and commercialized nether the caller ticker awesome ‘MNDT’ from Tuesday. 

How are different assets trading?

• The output connected the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y rose, but arsenic stocks sold disconnected its gains were moderating connected Monday to astir 1.47%, aft past week putting successful its sixth consecutive play rise, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
• The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, a measurement of the currency against a handbasket of six large rivals, fell 0.3% Friday, pursuing past week’s 0.8% play rise.
• Oil futures CL00 traded higher, with the U.S. benchmark rising 2.9% to scope $78.06 a tube Friday arsenic OPEC and its allies agreed to clasp to a antecedently agreed upon summation successful crude output starting successful November. Gold futures traded down 0.5% astatine $1,749.60 an ounce.
• In European markets, the Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP traded 0.3% higher. The FTSE 100 Index UKX, -0.16% traded 0.6% higher.
• The Nikkei 225 index NIK closed down 1.1%. China markets were closed for a the Golden Week holidays. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng HSI, -2.19% closed down 2.2%.