New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange ended in dispersed order on Wednesday, investors digesting new catastrophic employment figures in the United States even as several federal states gradually reopen their economies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, its star index, fell 0.91% to 23,664.64 points.

The Nasdaq appreciated by 0.51% to 8.8854.39 points. The highly technological index benefited from the good shape of several tech giants, including Facebook (+ 0.68%), Microsoft (+ 0.98%) and Netflix (+ 2.26%).

The S&P 500, which represents the 500 largest companies on Wall Street, lost 0.70% to 2,848.42 points.

The New York market remained on two consecutive sessions of increase.

"The market seems to be losing momentum," said Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital Securities.

"The macroeconomic news is very bad with the figures on the private sector this morning and, probably, those on employment on Friday," added the expert.

Work in the private sector collapsed in April because of containment measures to stem the pandemic of new coronavirus, with 20.236 million jobs lost, according to the survey of the firm of the services of the companies ADP published Wednesday .

These data generally prefigure the monthly report on employment and unemployment rate, to be published this Friday by the Ministry of Labor.

Economists anticipate 28 million jobs lost across all sectors.

"I don't think there will be a rush for the equity market" in the coming weeks, predicts Cardillo.

According to him, the investors "anticipate a recovery, but are in the waiting position and are trying to find out how long it will take."

Deconfinement continues in the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic with nearly 72,000 deaths in more than 1.2 million cases. California is expected to start easing some measures later this week.

The quarterly results of companies also continue to enliven the New York Stock Exchange.

General Motors (GM), which managed to limit the damage in the first quarter by generating a net profit of $ 247 million, said it hoped to reopen its factories in the United States and Canada on May 18. Its title rose by 2.96%.

Disney, for its part, estimated Tuesday evening at 1.4 billion dollars the impact of the health crisis on its activities from January to March, including 1 billion linked to amusement parks and cruises alone. The group's share fell 0.18%.

On the bond market, the 10-year rate on the US debt increased, standing at 0.7014% against 0.6619% on Tuesday evening.

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