New York (AFP)

Wall Street evolved in dispersed order Thursday after a sharp rise in weekly jobless claims in the United States at the opening of a session which will be marked by the entry of the Airbnb housing rental platform.

Around 2:50 p.m. GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.12%, and the broader S&P 500 index was down 0.06%.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloring, advanced 0.04% after starting the session in the red.

The Nasdaq had suffered from a bad session the day before, losing 1.94% to 12,338.95 points.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.35% to 30,068.81 points and the broader S&P 500 index fell 0.79% to 3,672.82 points.

"US stocks extend yesterday's slide" at the opening "moving further away from the territories of its records," Schwab analysts said.

Investors are weighing both "rising markets lately, the headlines on the arrival of vaccines and the continuation of difficult talks on US tax relief" but also "disappointing employment data," they said. "American.

Unemployment claims soared last week in the United States, registering their largest increase since the start of the pandemic in the country at the end of March, driven by the surge in Covid-19 cases which has forced new restrictive measures of the activity.

Between November 29 and December 5, 853,000 people registered as unemployed, far more than the 720,000 registrations expected by analysts, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department.

The market was also awaiting the first listing of the Airbnb housing rental platform after the sensational entry of the DoorDash meal delivery service on Wednesday, which ended up 86%, to 189.51 dollars.

The title lost more than 7% at the opening.

Airbnb, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol "ABNB", has set its entry price at 68 dollars per share, which allows it to recover around 3.7 billion dollars.

The transaction values ​​the rental housing platform at around $ 47 billion.

The Nasdaq index, which fell sharply at the opening before recovering, closely followed the evolution of Facebook (-1%).

The title was still weighted by the announcement Wednesday of complaints filed by several US authorities against the Californian giant, accused of abuse of a dominant position and ordered to cede WhatsApp or Instagram.

The bond yield on 10-year Treasury bills fell to 0.9245% from 0.9361%.

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