S&P 500, Nasdaq droop as tech stocks weigh; Nvidia results on tap
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Indexes: Dow up 0.02%, S&P 500 off 0.41%, Nasdaq down 0.94%
Updated at 11:47 a.m. ET/ 1547 GMT
By Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal
Aug 26 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dropped in choppy trading on Monday, weighed by AI-favorite Nvidia ahead of its results later in the week, while markets awaited a key inflationreport andcemented bets on an imminent interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
NvidiaNVDA.O dropped 2.3%, leading declines among chip stocks and sending the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index .SOX down2.5% ahead of the chip designer's highly anticipated earnings on Wednesday. The broader Technology sector .SPLRCT also lost over 1%.
Markets have been less forgiving this quarterof highly valued megacap stocks, which spearheaded the excitement around artificial intelligence.
Nvidia's earnings will be scrutinized tojustify the stock's more than 160% year-to-date jump, which pushed its market cap value to No. 2, just below Apple's AAPL.O, as of Friday's close.
"Nvidia's on tap. People are taking a little money off the table, saying, well, we've earned some money," said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners. "Their forecast for the next six months or so is probably the most important data that we get this week."
Other growth names such as Tesla TSLA.O shed 3%, while Meta META.O fell 1.4% and Apple AAPL.O lost 0.8%.
At 11:47 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 10.14 points, or 0.02%, at 41,185.22, the S&P 500 .SPX was down 22.99 points, or 0.41%, at 5,611.62, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 168.87 points, or 0.94%, at 17,708.93.
The Energy sector .SPNY bucked the trend torise 0.6%, as reports of oil supply disruptions amid thegeopolitical conflict in the Middle Eastlifted crude prices. O/R
Other areas in the market, including financialsstocks such as American Express AXP.N and consumer staples such as Proctor& Gamble PG.N, also saw gains, limiting declines on the blue-chip Dow, whichhit an intraday record high earlier in the day.
The main indexes rallied more than 1% on Friday, with the benchmarkS&P 500 .SPX nearingrecord highs after U.S. FederalReserve 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.
Traders are now betting on either a 25-basis-point or a 50-basis-point rate cut in September. Odds of the former stand at 67.5%, while odds of a 50-bps cut are at 34.5%, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
Friday's highly anticipatedPersonal Consumption Expenditure data for July, the central bank's preferred inflation gauge, could provide more insight into the policy easing trajectory.
Resultsfrom Dell DELL.N, Salesforce CRM.N, Dollar General DG.N and Gap GAP.N are also expected through the week.
Among others, U.S.-listed shares of PDD Holdings PDD.O sank 29.8% after the Temu-owner missed market expectations for second-quarter revenue.
Boeing BA.N slipped 1.4% after NASA picked SpaceX over the planemaker's Starlinerto return its astronauts from space next year.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.41-to-1 ratio on the NYSE, and by a1.19-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 91 new 52-week highs and no new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 127 new highs and 26 new lows.
Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai
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