New York (AFP)

Wall Street opened Tuesday in dispersed order, catching its breath after the euphoria of the day before, following the announcement of the upcoming availability of a vaccine against Covid-19.

At 3.10 p.m. GMT, the flagship Dow Jones index gained 0.72% to 29,367.22 points.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloring, dropped 1.21% to 11,571.68 points.

The S&P 500 lost 0.35% to 3,538.21 points.

The day before, the New York Stock Exchange had been galvanized, like the world markets, by the announcement by the Pfizer and BioNtech laboratories of an apparently effective vaccine against Covid-19 and after the election of Joe Biden to the White House .

The Dow Jones, which hit record highs in the session, ended up 2.95% and the S&P 500 gained 1.17%.

The Nasdaq, shunned by investors in response to their rush for the values ​​of the traditional economy, had yielded 1.53%.

The market seemed to continue on this "rotation", according to Patrick O'Hare of Briefing, ceding the shares of technology companies that have benefited from the pandemic "while we remain on the idea that economic growth should improve in 2021 as new vaccines spread. "

At the start of the session, Amazon lost 2.75%, Microsoft -2.26%, the payment service Paypal -2.28% and the Chinese giant of online distribution Alibaba -8%.

"Trade in US equities is mixed at the start of the session, after the surge in values ​​yesterday," noted Schwab analysts.

"The markets are a bit on hold because yesterday's rise came in the wake of the strong rebound of the previous week and a fall the week before," they added.

The title of Pfizer, which jumped Monday after announcing the development of a vaccine effective "at 90%", continued in the green, rising 1.78% after closing the day up 7.68% .

Its partner, Germany's BioNtech, climbed 4.96% after rising almost 14% on Monday.

Eli Lilly, who received a temporary green light for synthetic antibody treatment against Covid-19, increased by nearly 3%.

The title Zoom fell by more than 8% as the prospect of a return to normal life with a vaccine made known a second black day to the video conferencing platform.

The American start-up of meat substitutes Beyond Meat plunged by more than 21% while McDonald's announced, with McPlant, to also embark on the race for vegetarian products.

On the bond market, the yield on US 10-year debt continued to climb to 0.9527% against 0.9235% the day before.

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