New York (AFP)
The New York Stock Exchange was in the red on Monday after starting in positive territory, having already lost momentum the day before due to doubts about growth.
At 2:10 p.m. GMT, the Dow Jones index fell 0.24% to 34,755.47 points.
The Nasdaq lost 0.55% to 14,600.76 points and the S&P 500 dropped 0.25% to 4,376.10 points.
On Monday for the first session of the month, the Dow Jones lost 0.28% and the S&P 500 0.18%.
The Nasdaq index, with a strong technological coloring, remained stable at 0.06%.
"The indices started on a better note" at the opening "but it remains to be seen whether they will not end like the day before, with shares and bond rates falling," doubted Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com.
Investors were reassured by several good corporate results, but are also "worried about the continuation of the Chinese regulatory tightening on large companies," said Schwab analysts.
Chinese internet giant Tencent has been bullied on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after state media criticism of "video game addiction."
"The regulatory cover is back on Chinese equities, following a scathing reference, in a Chinese state-owned newspaper, to video games as being + opium for the mind," said Patrick. O'Hare.
Still on the video game side, the American publisher Activision Blizzard, in the midst of a storm after being accused of having allowed discrimination and harassment to take hold within the company, announced on Tuesday the departure of a manager of the subsidiary. Blizzard Entertainment.
The title fell 4.46% on Wall Street.
Pepsico, which announced the sale of Tropicana and Naked juices to a French investment fund for $ 3.3 billion, remained stable (+ 0.18%).
Bond yields on 10-year US debt were down to 1.1556% from 1.1773%.
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