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US Stocks Turn Lower; Dow Dips 175 Points

U.S. stocks turned lower midway through trading, with the Dow Jones dropping around 175 points on Tuesday.

The Dow traded down 1.60% to 29,085.07 while the NASDAQ fell 0.31% to 10,769.06. The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 0.50% to 3,636.85.

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Leading and Lagging Sectors


Energy shares rose by 1.1% on Tuesday.
In trading on Tuesday, utilities shares fell 1.8%.


Top Headline


The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 16.1% year-over-year in July.

 

Equities Trading UP

 

  • Avenue Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATXI) shares shot up 147% to $8.70. Avenue Therapeutics recently received the official meeting minutes from the FDA regarding a meeting conducted for IV Tramadol in combination with other opioid analgesics to manage moderate-to-moderately severe pain. Concurrently, Avenue Therapeutics announced that it would effect a 1-for-15 reverse stock split.
  • Shares of PaxMedica, Inc. (NASDAQ:PXMD) got a boost, shooting 38% to $2.9894 as the company issued a corporate update after IPO. The company named Stephen D. Sheldon as CFO.
  • Bellerophon Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLPH) shares were also up, gaining 25% to $1.2099. The FDA has accepted Bellerophon Therapeutics’ proposal to reduce the study size for its ongoing registrational REBUILD Phase 3 trial of INOpulse for the treatment of fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease (fILD).

 

Equities Trading DOWN

  • Avidity Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:RNA) shares tumbled 16% to $15.77. The FDA has placed a partial clinical hold on new participant enrollment in Avidity Biosciences’ Phase 1/2 MARINA trial of AOC 1001 in adults with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1).
  • Shares of Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KPRX) were down 15% to $6.12 following effect of 1:40 reverse split.
  • Eve Holding, Inc. (NYSE:EVEX) was down, falling 17% to $10.12. BLADE India signed non-binding order for up to 200 eVTOL vehicles from Eve Air Mobility.


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Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded up 1.4% to $77.78, while gold traded up 0.3% at $1,638.30.


Silver traded down 0.3% to $18.425 on Tuesday while copper fell 0.3% to $3.2860.


Euro zone


European shares were mostly lower today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 fell 0.13%, London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.52% while Spain’s IBEX 35 Index fell 0.84%. The German DAX declined 0.72%, French CAC 40 fell 0.27% and Italy’s FTSE MIB Index fell 1.16%.

Loans to households in the Eurozone climbed 4.5% year-over-year in August, while number of people registered at out of work in mainland France dropped by 1 thousand from the prior month to 2.966 million during August.

 


Economics

 

  • US durable goods orders fell 0.2% month-over-month in August.
  • The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 16.1% year-over-year in July.
  • The FHFA's house price index fell 0.6% from a month ago in July.
  • New home sales jumped 28.8% from a month ago to a five-month high of 685,000 in August.
  • The Richmond Fed composite manufacturing index came in at 0 in September versus -8 in the prior month.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly will speak at 8:55 p.m. ET.

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COVID-19 Update

The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 97,959,570 cases with around 1,082,030 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 44,575,470 cases and 528,560 deaths, while France reported over 35,164,530 COVID-19 cases with 154,960 deaths. In total, there were at least 620,803,240 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 6,541,900 deaths.

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