US markets end deeply in red on fears of economic slowdown

27 Apr 2022 Evaluate

The US markets ended deeply lower on Tuesday as investors dumped equities on fears of an economic slowdown. The sell-off on Wall Street came as elevated inflation, Covid-19 lockdowns in China and the ongoing war in Ukraine continued to weigh on investors' minds as they digest the latest earnings news. Tech stocks led the decline as investors did not wait around for Microsoft and Alphabet first-quarter results after the bell, fearing more blow-ups like the one seen in Netflix earlier in the earnings season. Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet both saw shares close down more than 3% ahead of reporting earnings. Facebook parent Meta, Amazon and Apple also finished lower, with earnings results slated for later this week. Netflix shares dropped nearly 5.5% and hit a new multi-year low. Last week, Netflix plunged 35% in a single day after reporting a surprising subscriber loss for the first quarter.

On the economic data front, a report released by the Commerce Department showed new orders for US manufactured durable goods rebounded in the month of March. The report showed durable goods orders climbed by 0.8 percent in March after tumbling by a revised 1.7 percent in February. Street had expected durable goods orders to jump by 1.0 percent compared to the 2.2 percent slump originally reported for the previous month. Excluding orders for transportation equipment, durable goods orders surged by 1.1 percent in March after falling by 0.5 percent in February. Ex-transportation orders were expected to increase by 0.6 percent. A separate report released by the Commerce Department showed a steep drop in US new home sales in the month of March. The Commerce Department said new home sales plunged by 8.6 percent to an annual rate of 763,000 from an upwardly revised rate of 835,000 in February.

Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 809.28 points or 2.38 percent to 33,240.18, Nasdaq fell 514.11 points or 3.95 percent to 12,490.74 and S&P 500 was down by 120.92 points or 2.81 percent to 4,175.2.

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