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Stocks drop as Treasury yields widen their inversion

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 27, 2022 in New York City.

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The January rally in U.S. stocks fizzled as Treasury yields widened their inversion. Recent data failed to paint a coherent picture of the economy.

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The bottom line

The January rally seems to be fizzling as investors process the strange state of the U.S. economy.

Weekly jobless claims in the U.S. hit 196,000 for the week ending Feb. 4. Though it’s an increase of 13,000 from the prior week, it’s still one of the lowest numbers historically. Yet the number is more than what analysts expected and runs contrary to January’s jobs data, which reported record low unemployment.

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Despite a strong labor market, the Treasury yield curve remains inverted — meaning the yield on the 2-year Treasury exceeds that of the 10-year Treasury. On Thursday, the inversion widened. That usually indicates investors are worried about market conditions in the near term, and it sometimes signals a recession.

Those economic signals, in combination with the Federal Reserve’s continuing, hawkish tones, seemed to give investors pause. On Thursday, U.S. stocks continued their two-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.73% and the S&P 500 fell 0.9%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, weighed down by a 4% slide in Google-parent Alphabet and a 3% decline in Meta, dropped 1.02%.

Until economic data paints a more coherent picture of the U.S. economy, it’s likely that markets stay choppy.

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