Major Indices dropped after coronavirus cases surged and new lockdown measures are set

After record setting session from Monday’s market, the Dow and S&P 500 both declined after shares from Big Pharmacy companies are under a strain.

The Dow declined almost 0.60% while S&P 500 is short by less than 0.50%. Nasdaq rallied but ended up losing about 0.21%.
Treasuries and Gold are also down in today’s session while crude are all up.

Meanwhile, here are the rest of the movements in Stock Market this Tuesday;
Stocks
– S&P 500 fell a bit with 17.37 points loss or is 0.48% lower to 3,609.54.
– The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 167.22 points or is down by 0.56% to 29,783.22.
– Nasdaq Composite declined around 24.79 points or 0.21% to 11,899.34.
– The MSCI Asia Pacific Index is up by 0.2%.
– The MSCI Emerging Market Index is down around 0.1%.

Bonds
– The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note is down by 3 basis points to 0.869%.
– The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond also fell short to 1.623%.
– Britain’s 10-year yield is down by two basis points to 0.32%.
– Germany’s 10-year yield dropped about two basis points to -0.56%.

Commodities
– Gold declined around 7.36 points or is 0.39% lower to $1,882.07an ounce.
– Silver fell around 0.26 points or 1.06% down to $24.50 an ounce.
– West Texas Intermediate crude rose with 0.22% gain to $41.43 per barrel.
– Brent crude is up with a few points to $43.78 per barrel.

Currencies
– US Dollar Currency Index has no to little change to 92.438 per dollar.
– The Japanese yen climbed up about 0.4% to 104.2 per dollar.
– The euro rose around 0.1% to $1.1864.
– The British pound rose quite a few with 0.4% increased to $1.3251.

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