New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange ended in dispersed order on Tuesday, the Dow Jones pausing after a strong advance while the Nasdaq took advantage of the surge of some big names in tech like Apple to climb to a new record.

The Wall Street star index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, lost 1.09% to 27,272.30 points when the highly technological Nasdaq appreciated 0.29% to 9,953.75 points and ended on a record. He crossed the symbolic threshold of 10,000 points for the first time during the session.

The S&P 500, which represents the 500 largest companies on Wall Street, fell 0.78% to 3,207.18 points.

"For the Dow Jones and the S&P 500, investors are just making some profit taking," says Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital Securities.

After a sudden collapse between the end of February and the end of March, the indices quickly recovered, each taking more than 40%. And this despite the multiplication of indicators showing the severe impact of the measures imposed to stem the Covid-19 pandemic on activity.

The World Bank again estimated on Monday that the world economy will contract by 5.2% this year.

The Economic Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research said that the United States entered a recession in February.

But market players focus mainly on the gradual recovery of the economy as deconfinement in the main economic powers and bet on the rebound in business activity.

And they have benefited greatly from the measures of the American central bank "which has injected very generously money into the financial circuits", underlines Peter Cardillo.

Currency traders will be attentive in this regard Wednesday at the end of the meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee. If observers do not really expect the institution to raise interest rates, they will watch for any clues about future decisions.

The Nasdaq for its part benefited from the good performance of some stars like Amazon (+ 3.04%), Apple (+ 3.16%), Facebook (+ 3.14%) or Netflix (+ 3.47%) .

On the bond market, the 10-year rate on the US debt fell sharply, to 0.8187% against 0.8752% Monday at the close.

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