Rising bond yields drag down shares of big tech companies – 07/10/2024 at 1:48 p.m.

Rising bond yields drag down shares of big tech companies – 07/10/2024 at 1:48 p.m.
Rising bond yields drag down shares of big tech companies – 07/10/2024 at 1:48 p.m.

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Oct. 7 – **Shares of U.S. tech heavyweights fall in pre-market trading

** The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield US10YT=RR climbs to 4% for the first time in two months after strong U.S. jobs data on Friday left markets betting on another major rate cut from the share of the US Federal Reserve/

**A rise in Treasury yields, which are considered risk-free rates, decreases the value of big tech companies’ future cash flows

** Netflix

NFLX.O

, Tesla

TSLA.O

, Alphabet

GOOGL.O

,
Amazon.com

AMZN.O

, Nvidia

NVDA.O

, Microsoft

MSFT.O

, Apple

AAPL.O , Meta Platforms META.O fall between 0.3% and 1.9%

**A handful of broker downgrades also weigh on stocks

** Futures linked to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 NQcv1 are down 0.7%

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