Surging Bond Yields Send Nasdaq Futures Tumbling: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury yields surged, Nasdaq 100 Index futures tumbled and planetary stocks were dragged down by interest that cardinal banks volition person to rise rates sooner than expected.

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Treasuries fell crossed the curve, pushing yields up to levels past seen earlier the pandemic roiled markets. The moves seeped into different countries, with benchmark German yields rising to wrong 1 ground constituent of turning affirmative for the archetypal clip since May 2019.

Nasdaq futures and exertion stocks from Apple Inc. to Tesla Inc. fell successful U.S. premarket trading. Tech besides led the retreat successful Europe, portion vigor shares and Saudi stocks rallied arsenic Brent lipid surged to the highest level successful 7 years.

Easing concerns astir the interaction of the omicron microorganism strain connected demand, unneurotic with shrinking inventories and geopolitical risks are contributing to forecasts of $100 per tube crude aboriginal this year, underscoring the ostentation challenges facing the Federal Reserve.

Bank stocks besides fell successful premarket trading aft Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter trading revenue. Goldman tumbled astir 4%, portion Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley dropped.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Inc. fell successful aboriginal trading aft announcing a woody to bargain Activision Blizzard successful what would beryllium the U.S. exertion giant’s largest-ever takeover. The video crippled shaper down the “Call of Duty” franchise surged.

Global equities person had a volatile commencement to the twelvemonth arsenic investors displacement retired of much costly and rates-sensitive sectors specified arsenic exertion into cheaper, alleged worth shares. Bank of America’s January planetary money manager survey showed that nett allocation to the tech assemblage fell 20% month-over-month to 1%, the lowest since 2008, though they expect ostentation to autumn this twelvemonth and are placing grounds bets connected a roar successful some commodities and stocks overall.

“Although rising enslaved yields are challenging the full tech sector, investors indispensable separate betwixt profitless names that are a agelong mode from demonstrating steadfast earning powerfulness and mega-cap tech firms that tin support their margins,” Seema Shah, main strategist astatine Principal Global Investors, wrote successful a enactment to investors.

A gauge of the dollar rose. The yen initially declined aft the Bank of Japan sat pat connected argumentation portion nudging up its ostentation projection.

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What to ticker this week:

• Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, UnitedHealth Group and Netflix are among companies publishing net during the week

• U.S. information includes Empire manufacturing Tuesday, lodging starts Wednesday and jobless claims Thursday

• Interest-rate decisions owed from nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Turkey and Ukraine, Thursday

• EIA crude lipid inventory report, Thursday

Some of the main moves successful markets:

Stocks

• Futures connected the S&P 500 fell 0.9% arsenic of 8:35 a.m. New York time

• Futures connected the Nasdaq 100 fell 1.5%

• Futures connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8%

• The Stoxx Europe 600 fell 1%

• The MSCI World scale was small changed

Currencies

• The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index roseate 0.2%

• The euro fell 0.3% to $1.1379

• The British lb fell 0.4% to $1.3598

• The Japanese yen was small changed astatine 114.57 per dollar

Bonds

• The output connected 10-year Treasuries precocious 4 ground points to 1.82%

• Germany’s 10-year output was small changed astatine -0.02%

• Britain’s 10-year output was small changed astatine 1.19%

Commodities

• West Texas Intermediate crude roseate 1.8% to $85.36 a barrel

• Gold futures fell 0.6% to $1,806.10 an ounce

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