The Dow Jones index gained 0.04%, the Nasdaq took 0.03% and the broader S&P 500 index fell 0.10%, around 16:20 GMT. At the opening, the indices were moving all the more in the red.

The day before, after mixed news on the side of the activity of services in the United States, the Dow Jones index had dropped 0.59% to 33,562.60 points, the Nasdaq, dominated by technology, had given up 0.09% to 13,229.43 points and the S&P 500 had declined by 0.20% to 4,273.75 points.

"The lack of conviction on Tuesday is a bit of a reflection of the arrival of the summer atmosphere but it is also due to the feeling that mega-caps have hit a wall," said Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com.

"Investors are also in waiting mode ahead of next week's CPI inflation index and the Fed's monetary policy meeting," the analyst added.

For Schwab experts, risk appetite was cut "given the rise of the dollar" and bond yields.

These rose from 3.68% to 3.72% for rates on ten-year bills.

The market was also digesting Apple's entry into the metaverse. The Apple group announced Monday the launch of its first virtual and augmented reality headset, called Vision Pro that the manufacturer will sell for $ 3,500.

Just before the announcement, the Cupertino group, already the first capitalization of Wall Street, reached the peak, historic in this area, of $ 2.850 trillion.

The stock reached a ceiling before falling at the close. On Tuesday, it gave up 0.79% to 178.50 dollars around 14:20 GMT.

But it was the world of cryptocurrencies that shook the market on Tuesday. After the legal attack of Binance, the largest exchange platform in the world, by the SEC on Monday for circumventing regulations, it was around Coinbase to be sued by the policeman of the Exchange.

Bomb on crypto

The US Financial Markets Authority has sued the first cryptocurrency exchange platform in the United States, Coinbase, for non-compliance with the regulations.

"It exploded like a bomb," O'Hare said. Coinbase's stock on the Nasdaq fell more than 16% to $49.10.

The market watchdog accuses the platform, which has 110 million users, of not having registered with him as an exchange platform and intermediary of transactions in cryptocurrencies.

By the end of 2022, Coinbase had $80 billion in assets.

SEC boss Garry Gensler, interviewed by CNBC, denounced the crypto-asset market "which undermines investor confidence in capital markets in general".

Bitcoin, which had lost some 6% the day before to fall to the lowest in three months after the announcement of the continuation of Binance by the SEC, recovered slightly (+1.5%) rising to $ 26,000.

Oil stocks fell in the wake of oil prices, which despite the production cuts announced by Saudi Arabia for next month, fell by almost 1.5%.

Thus Exxon Mobil gave up 0.43%, Chevron O.65%.

The share of Unity Software fell 2.42% after a jump the day before in the wake of the announcement of the headset of Apple that will use its software.

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