Apple fell 3.58% to 185.64 as Barclays moved to Underperform, citing weakening demand for iPhones. Other high-growth stocks, such as Nvidia (- 2.73% to 481.68), Meta Platforms (- 2.17% to 346.29) and Microsoft (-1.37% to 370.87), declined.
The manufacturing sector saw the contraction of its activity accelerate in December, according to S&P Global whose PMI index for the sector stood at 47.9 after 49.4 in November and 48.2 expected.
You’re here (- 0.02% to 248.42) recorded 1,789 new registrations in December, compared to 1,645 over the same period in 2022, an increase of 9%. In Sweden, the group’s market share is now 6.1%.
Oil groups recorded an upward session, due to tensions in the Red Sea where the attack on a cargo ship by fighters belonging to the Yemeni Houthi rebel movement was notably repelled by the US Navy. So, Chevron rose 0.25% to 149.54, Western Petroleum by 0.56% to 60.05 and Exxon Mobile by 2.41% to 102.39.
The Dutch semiconductor giant listed on Wall Street, ASML (-5.28% to 716.92), confirmed that the government of the Netherlands had partially revoked its export license for certain lithography systems.
Nomura lowered its stock advice Uber Technologies (- 5.18% to 58.38) and Lyft (-7.94% to 13.8) respectively from Buy to Neutral and from Light to Neutral.
THE Dow Jones thus gained 0.07% to 37,715.05 points, the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.63% to 14,765.94 points and the S&P 500 0.57% to 4,742.83 points.