New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange opened again in the red Wednesday pending a report from the Fed, after a sharp decline the day before marked by a disappointing consumption indicator.

At 2:00 p.m. GMT, the Dow Jones index lost 0.27%.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloring, yielded 0.11%.

The extended S&P 500 index dropped 0.10%.

Tuesday, after five consecutive sessions of increases that pushed them to records, the Dow Jones index lost 0.79% to 35,343.28 points and the extended S&P 500 index dropped 0.71% to 4,448.08 points .

The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloring, dropped 0.93% to 14,656.18 points.

"The market is recovering from a poor performance but shows little enthusiasm to pick up," said Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com.

Investors were watching for the publication at 6:00 p.m. GMT of the Fed minutes, the minutes of the last monetary meeting in late July of the Central Bank for clues as to when the institution could begin to reduce its monetary support.

Since the Monetary Committee of July 28, members of the Fed have shown growing support for the announcement in September of an upcoming easing of asset purchases.

Yields on 10-year Treasuries edged up to 1.27% from & .26% the day before.

Telephone operator T-Mobile rose 0.27% to $ 141 despite news of the theft of the private data of 7.8 million of its customers in a hack that affected the files of 40 million of its customers past and potential.

Despite good results in the second quarter, the title of the chain of Target stores lost 2.32% after having already dropped 2.90% the day before.

Distributor stock has been one of the big winners in the industry so far during the recovery, climbing 40% year on year.

Among the indicators, building activity was mixed in July, with new housing starts having fallen by 7%, the construction sector being heavily penalized by the now very high property prices.

A positive sign, however, is that building permits issued have started to rise again, after three months of decline.

Tesla, whose title has been abused in recent sessions after an investigation by US authorities into its "autopilot" system involved in a dozen accidents, moved forward (+ 1.39% to 674.95 dollars).

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