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Stocks stumble as Tesla weighs, dollar hits 2-yr high – 3 Jan 2025

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Index Last Change % Change
trading lower

42,392.27 -151.95 0.36%Negative
trading lower

19,280.79 -30.00 0.16%Negative
trading lower

5,868.55 -13.08 0.22%Negative
Index Last Change % Change
trading lower

39,894.54 -386.62 0.96%Negative
unchanged

19,623.32
trading higher

79,943.71 +1436.30 1.83%Positive

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Summary

  • U.S. stocks fall as Tesla drags
  • U.S. yields ease but 10-year Treasury still above 4.5%
  • Dollar continues recent strength, hits 2-year high

Fixed Income

Fed’s recent economic forecast and worries that Trump’s policies such as tariffs may prove to be inflationary, sent yields higher and created a stumbling block for equities.
U.S. 10-year notes yield slipped 1.6 basis points to 4.563%, but remained above the 4.5% mark.

Equities

Wall Street declines dragged by the consumer discretionary sector (.SPLRCD), which dropped 1.27% and by 6.08% fall in TSLA after its report of its first decline in annual deliveries

MSCI’s global (.MIWD00000PUS),  lost 1.72 points, or 0.20%, to 839.70.
Europe’s STOXX 600 (.STOXX),  index gained 0.6%.

Forex

DXY rose 0.67% to 109.27, after climbing to 109.54, its highest since Nov. 10, 2022.
EUR down 0.89% at $1.0263 after slumping to $1.0223, its lowest since Nov. 21, 2022.
JPY weakened 0.47% to 157.60. GBP dropped 1.12% to $1.2377.

Commodities

U.S. crude settling up 1.97% at $73.13, Brent hit at $75.93 per barrel, up 1.73%, on optimism over China’s economy and fuel demand.
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