S&P 500 retreats from near-record levels, Nvidia slides
PDD Holdings slumps after quarterly revenue miss
Oil shares up on supply disruption fears, Middle East tensions
Boeing slips as NASA picks SpaceX over Starliner
S&P 500 -0.53%, Nasdaq -1.13%, Dow -0.04%
Updates at 1:57 p.m. ET/ 1757 GMT
By Johann M Cherian and Noel Randewich
Aug 26 (Reuters) -The S&P 500 retreated from near-record highs onMonday, with AI heavyweight Nvidia dipping ahead of its quarterly report this week, while investors awaited inflation data for clues about the path of interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Nvidia NVDA.O dropped 2.6% ahead of its report on Wednesday in what is set to be the U.S. stock market's most closely watched event of the week.
Some investors worried that anything short of a stellar forecast from Nvidia could shatter Wall Street's rally in AI-related companies, including Microsoft MSFT.O, Alphabet GOOGL.O and Meta Platforms META.O.
"Nvidia could disappoint. I think when you get to the point where the majority doesn't even suspect that there could be a piece of bad news, that's typically where you get it," warned Jake Dollarhide, chief executive of Longbow Asset Management in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
U.S.-listed shares of PDD Holdings PDD.O tumbled 29% after the Temu-owner missed market expectations for second-quarter revenue.
The S&P 500 was down 0.53% at 5,604.90 points.
The Nasdaq declined 1.13% to 17,675.64 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.04% at 41,160.67 points.
Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, six declined, led lower by information technology .SPLRCT, down 1.48%, followed by a 1.06% loss in consumer discretionary .SPLRCD.
The energy sector index.SPNY jumped 1% followingreports of oil supply disruptions amid the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East lifted crude prices. O/R
Wall Streetrallied on Friday, with the S&P 500 .SPX nearing record highs after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said "the time has come" to lower borrowing costs in the light of a diminishing upside risk to inflation and moderating labor demand.
Money markets suggest traders see a 70% chance of a 25 basis point interest rate cut and a 30% chance of a 50 basis point cut in September, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
Friday's highly anticipated Personal Consumption Expenditure data for July, the central bank's preferred inflation gauge, could provide more insight into the policy easing trajectory.
Results from Dell DELL.N, Salesforce CRM.N, Dollar General DG.N and Gap GAP.N are on tap this week.
Boeing BA.N slipped 0.4% after NASA picked SpaceX over the planemaker's Starliner to return its astronauts from space next year.
Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 .AD.SPX by a 1.1-to-one ratio.
Across the U.S. stock market .AD.US, declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by a 1.1-to-one ratio.
Reporting by Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai and David Gregorio
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