According to final results at the close, the index of flagship stocks Dow Jones fell 0.31% to 36,319.98 points.

The technology-dominated Nasdaq interrupted its series of eleven bullish sessions to drop 0.60% to 15,886.54 points and the S&P 500, which had garnered eight records in a row, lost 0.35% to 4,685.25 points .

"The market is ripe for a little break, it has been oversold," summarized Karl Haeling of LBBW after the series of indexes advanced to all-time highs.

Investors have been attentive to the rise in producer prices (PPI) in the United States, published before the opening.

It remains significant, as expected, at + 0.6% over one month in October against 0.5% in September, and at 8.6% over one year, thus maintaining its highest level since these data began to appear. be calculated at the end of 2010.

The consumer price index (CPI) is expected on Wednesday.

It should show a new acceleration over one month, at + 0.6% against + 0.4% in September, according to a consensus of analysts.

Over one year, the index is expected to rise 5.9% against 5.4% in September.

Paradoxically, Treasury bill rates reacted calmly, easing to less than 1.44% from almost 1.49% the day before.

"In my opinion, the bad news on inflation is already integrated by the market which feels that the price increases are not going to be a problem in the long term", added Karl Haeling to explain the little reaction of bond rates to the recent rise in prices.

In the table of values, some flagship titles have seen great variations.

As the day before, Tesla weighed down the Nasdaq continuing to fall (-11.99% to 1,023.50 dollars) two days after his boss Elon Musk polled his followers on Twitter on the opportunity to sell 10% of his shares in the automaker, which could earn it more than $ 20 billion.

His brother Kimbal Musk, a member of the board of directors, sold him some 88,000 of his shares for $ 110 million.

Tesla recently moved into the very select club of companies worth over $ 1,000 billion on Wall Street.

Despite the exit from the road Monday and Tuesday, the action is still up 48% compared to the start of the year, after having already jumped more than 700% in 2020.

The title of the American conglomerate General Electric was hailed (+ 2.66% to 111.30 dollars) while the group announced Tuesday that it would separate its activities into three different companies.

All listed on the stock exchange, they will respectively specialize in aviation, healthcare and energy.

Popular video game site Roblox jumped 41.90% to $ 109.26 after the California-based company announced Monday after the market closed a 102% increase in quarterly revenue to $ 509.3 million. dollars.

The platform, introduced in March on the stock market, is however still in deficit with a loss of 74 million dollars over the quarter against 48.6 million a year before.

But it has seen a 31% increase in the number of daily users to 47.3 million.

Electronic payments group Paypal fell 10.46% after mixed results and despite an agreement with Amazon to showcase its Venmo payments portfolio on the e-commerce giant's site.

The Robinhood online brokerage app lost 3.37% after it revealed on Monday that it had suffered a cyberattack with no financial consequences but which stole the email addresses of five million of its customers.

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