Stocks drop, dollar up as investors weigh additional price hikes

NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) – Global stock indexes fell and the U.S. greenback rose on Friday as traders digested comments from Federal Reserve officers that signalled further desire amount hikes forward.

Big U.S. inventory indexes posted losses for the 7 days, with the Nasdaq snapping an eight-week successful streak. The S&P 500 finished a five-7 days streak of gains.

San Francisco Fed Lender President Mary Daly claimed in an interview with Reuters that two far more charge hikes this yr is a “extremely realistic” projection.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell in testimony to U.S. lawmakers this 7 days prompt the central bank has not attained the conclusion of its tightening cycle, while he provided reassurance that the Fed would progress with warning.

Nasdaq led losses on Wall Street, and all of the important S&P 500 sectors finished reduce on the day.

The Dow Jones Industrial Regular (.DJI) fell 219.28 factors, or .65%, to 33,727.43, the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 33.56 factors, or .77%, to 4,348.33 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) dropped 138.09 points, or 1.01%, to 13,492.52.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index (.STOXX) misplaced .34% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks throughout the world (.MIWD00000PUS) shed .95%.

Treasury yields fell as the market place permitted for at least a person additional Fed amount hike in the near time period and weighed the potential for slower advancement next weaker-than-predicted advancement in the euro zone.

“The Treasury industry is pricing in the fact of monetary policymakers’ willingness to chance an financial slowdown of some importance in their endeavor to re-set up selling price steadiness,” stated Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. charges system at BMO Capital Marketplaces in New York.

Benchmark 10-yr notes ended up down 6.2 basis factors to 3.737%, from 3.799% late on Thursday.

Euro zone federal government bond yields fell on information that German business activity, as calculated by obtaining administrators indexes (PMI) slowed notably in June, while French business enterprise exercise contracted this thirty day period for the 1st time in 5 months.

In the international exchange industry, the dismal enterprise action knowledge from around the globe also soured danger sentiment. Knowledge Friday confirmed U.S. enterprise action fell to a a few-thirty day period small in June as services growth eased for the very first time this yr and the contraction in the manufacturing sector deepened.

The dollar index rose .469%, with the euro down .58% to $1.0892.

Oil selling prices finished decrease on the working day and posted a weekly drop as traders nervous about desire.

Brent crude fell 29 cents to settle at $73.85 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude slipped 35 cents to $69.16.

Added reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Herbert Lash in New York and Huw Jones and Tom Westbrook, Enhancing by David Evans, Nick Zieminski and Aurora Ellis

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