Wall St set for lower open as megacaps retreat with jobs data, Powell in focus
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Updated at 8:42 a.m. ET/1242 GMT
By Ankika Biswas and Lisa Pauline Mattackal
July 2 (Reuters) - Wall Street was on track for a lower open on Tuesday as megacap stocks retreated after a strong session, with additional caution creeping in ahead of jobs opening data and comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell later in the day.
Megacap tech stocks Microsoft MSFT.O, Apple AAPL.O and Alphabet GOOGL.O slipped between 0.4%-0.8% in premarket trading, pulling back after gains in the previous session.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields slipped slightly on the day but were hovering around multi-week highs, also weighing on rate-sensitive growth stocks. [US/]
"Inflation is continuing to remain sticky, interest rates continue to remain high, there seems to be a bit of rotation or at least profit taking going on in some of these names that have done really well," said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth.
Pavlik also cited investors looking to adjust portfolios ahead of the U.S. presidential election, as the possibility increases of a second term for former President Donald Trump.
AI chip leader Nvidia NVDA.O also dropped 1.2%, with other semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology MU.O, Marvell Technology MRVL.O and Arm Holdings ARM.O also slipping between 1% and 1.7%.
On the data front, the job openings and labor turnover survey, or JOLTS, is due after market open and is expected to show job openings fell to 7.910 million in May from 8.059 million the month prior.
The data is the first in this week's series of U.S. jobs reports, particularly Friday's non-farm payrolls, which will be crucial in assessing whether the U.S. labor market remains resilient against the backdrop of decades-high interest rates - a key determinant of economic health.
Investors will parse remarks from Powell in a policy panel before a European Central Bank forum on central banking for further clues on how policymakers have assessed recent data.
As recent data signals a renewed moderation in inflation and some signs of economic weakness, market participants are holding on to their bets around two interest rate cuts by this year-end, starting from September, as per LSEG's FedWatch data.
With the equity market closed on Thursday on account of U.S. Independence Day, trading volumes are expected to be light throughout the week.
At 8:42 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were down 120 points, or 0.3%, S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were down 23 points, or 0.42%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were down 104 points, or 0.52%.
Among others, Paramount Global PARA.O climbed 3.8% after billionaire Barry Diller's digital-media conglomerate IAC IAC.O is exploring a bid to take control of the media giant.
Atlassian TEAM.O rose 2.7% after Piper Sandler upgraded the enterprise software maker to "overweight" from "neutral", while CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD.O slipped 2.3% after the same brokerage downgraded the cybersecurity firm to "neutral" from "overweight".
The U.S. listing of drugmaker Novo Nordisk NVO.N lost 3.0%, while rival Eli Lilly LLY.N dropped 1.9% after U.S. President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders called on the Danish drugmaker NOVOb.CO to cut prices of its Ozempic and Wegovy drugs.
Reporting by Ankika Biswas and Lisa Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel
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