U.S. stocks traded lower Tuesday as renewed declines in oil prices weighed amid mixed reaction to some key earnings reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average briefly fell more than 250 points in mid-morning trade. Goldman Sachs, Chevron and Exxon Mobil were the greatest weights on the index.
Shares of Exxon Mobil briefly declined 3 percent after the firm reported a 58 percent drop in profit, hurt by low oil prices. The world's largest publicly traded oil company also said it would cut spending this year by one-quarter, Reuters reported.
U.S. crude oil futures traded about 3.5 percent lower, near $30.50 a barrel, after briefly falling below $30. Concerns about demand and rising supply continued to weigh as hopes for a deal between OPEC and Russia on output cuts faded.
"The oil rally, which occurred around those rumors (about an output cut), has reversed and dragged down the stock market and long-term interest rates," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.
Treasury yields declined, with the 10-year yield falling below 1.9 percent to hit its lowest since April 2015. The 2-year yield was near 0.76 percent as of 10:30 a.m. ET.
The U.S. dollar held slightly lower against major world currencies, with the euro near $1.093 and the yen at 120.27 yen against the greenback.
The S&P 500 fell more than 1 percent in morning trade, as energy briefly declined more than 3 percent to lead all sectors lower.
"I think we're settling into a range-bound area until the Friday employment report," said Ilya Feygin, managing director and senior strategist at WallachBeth Capital.
"In general the earnings season hasn't been super bad. It hasn't been the problem. The problem has been weaker oil and overall growth," he said.
The Nasdaq composite also fell more than 1 percent as Apple, biotechs and several major tech stocks declined.
However, Facebook continued to climb and shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, gained more than 4 percent in morning trade.
The company reported earnings after the close Monday that beat on both the top and bottom line, helped by a 17 percent rise in advertising revenue. A key advertising metric of aggregate paid clicks increased 31 percent from the previous year, beating consensus expectations of about 22 percent, according to StreetAccount.
A jump in the shares in morning trade Tuesday put Google on pace to top Apple as the world's most valuable company.
Auto sales for January are the only major data out Tuesday, ahead of Friday's jobs report.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, voting member, is scheduled to speak on the economy at 1 p.m. ET.
In political news, Texas Senator Ted Cruz beat out national front-runner Donald Trump in the GOP's Iowa caucuses, according to NBC News. Florida Senator Marco Rubio surprised many with a solid third place finish.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton appeared to have won the Iowa caucus after her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, dubbed it "a virtual tie."
Kelly said the results could be neutral to slightly positive for markets. "The way votes came out last night seemed to focus on more centrist candidates on both sides," he said.
European stocks held more than 2 percent lower in morning trade ET as low oil prices and earnings reports from BP and UBS weighed.
The oil giant reported a significant annual loss for 2015 and plans to cut 7,000 jobs, or about 9 percent of its workforce, by 2017.
The Swiss bank reported earnings that topped analyst forecasts, but the bank reported an unexpected outflow from its wealth management business.
U.S. stocks closed narrowly mixed Monday, stabilizing on the first trading day of February, despite declines in oil and soft China manufacturing data.
In mid-morning trade Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial average declined 234 points, or 1.42 percent, to 16,215, with Goldman Sachs decliners and DuPont and Pfizer the only gainers.
The S&P 500 fell 25 points, or 1.29 percent, to 1,914, with energy leading all 10 sectors lower.
The Nasdaq composite dropped 49 points, or 1.08 percent, to 4,570.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, traded near 21.5.
About five stocks declined for every advancer on the New York Stock Exchange, with an exchange volume of 249 million and a composite volume of nearly 1.1 billion.
Crude oil futures for March delivery fell $1.24 to $30.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures for April delivery gained $1.20 to $1,129.20 an ounce.
On tap this week:
Tuesday
Earnings: Gilead Sciences, Yahoo, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Edwards Lifesciences
Monthly vehicle sales
1 p.m. Kansas City Fed President Esther George on the economy
Wednesday
Earnings: Comcast, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Mondelez Intl., Novo Nordisk, Humana, Intl. Paper, MetLife, Allstate, AvalonBay, Boston Properties, GoPro, Lincoln Natl., NXP Semiconductor, Yum Brands
7 a.m.: Mortgage applications
8:15 a.m. ADP employment
9:45 a.m. Services PMI
10 a.m. ISM nonmanufacturing
10:30 a.m.: Oil inventories
Thursday
Earnings: AstraZeneca, ConocoPhillips, Philip Morris, Cigna, Clorox, Credit Suisse, Dunkin Brands, NY Times, Tempur Sealy, Hartford Fincl., LinkedIn, News Corp., Symantec, Decker's Outdoor, DeVry Education, Lions Gate
7:30 a.m.: Challenger Job-Cut Report
8:30 a.m. Initial claims; productivity and costs
10 a.m. Factory orders
10:30 a.m.: Natural gas inventories
4:30 p.m.: Fed Balance Sheet/Money Supply
5 p.m. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on economy, policy
Friday
Earnings: BNP Paribas, Nippon Telegraph, Estee Lauder, Toyota Motors, Tyson Foods, Moody's, Weyerhaeuser, Aon, CME Group, Ametek
8:30 a.m. Employment report; international trade
1 p.m.: Oil rig count
3 p.m. Consumer credit, Treasury STRIPS
*Planner subject to change.
The Dow Jones industrial average briefly fell more than 250 points in mid-morning trade. Goldman Sachs, Chevron and Exxon Mobil were the greatest weights on the index.
Shares of Exxon Mobil briefly declined 3 percent after the firm reported a 58 percent drop in profit, hurt by low oil prices. The world's largest publicly traded oil company also said it would cut spending this year by one-quarter, Reuters reported.
U.S. crude oil futures traded about 3.5 percent lower, near $30.50 a barrel, after briefly falling below $30. Concerns about demand and rising supply continued to weigh as hopes for a deal between OPEC and Russia on output cuts faded.
"The oil rally, which occurred around those rumors (about an output cut), has reversed and dragged down the stock market and long-term interest rates," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.
Treasury yields declined, with the 10-year yield falling below 1.9 percent to hit its lowest since April 2015. The 2-year yield was near 0.76 percent as of 10:30 a.m. ET.
The U.S. dollar held slightly lower against major world currencies, with the euro near $1.093 and the yen at 120.27 yen against the greenback.
The S&P 500 fell more than 1 percent in morning trade, as energy briefly declined more than 3 percent to lead all sectors lower.
"I think we're settling into a range-bound area until the Friday employment report," said Ilya Feygin, managing director and senior strategist at WallachBeth Capital.
"In general the earnings season hasn't been super bad. It hasn't been the problem. The problem has been weaker oil and overall growth," he said.
The Nasdaq composite also fell more than 1 percent as Apple, biotechs and several major tech stocks declined.
However, Facebook continued to climb and shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, gained more than 4 percent in morning trade.
The company reported earnings after the close Monday that beat on both the top and bottom line, helped by a 17 percent rise in advertising revenue. A key advertising metric of aggregate paid clicks increased 31 percent from the previous year, beating consensus expectations of about 22 percent, according to StreetAccount.
A jump in the shares in morning trade Tuesday put Google on pace to top Apple as the world's most valuable company.
Auto sales for January are the only major data out Tuesday, ahead of Friday's jobs report.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, voting member, is scheduled to speak on the economy at 1 p.m. ET.
In political news, Texas Senator Ted Cruz beat out national front-runner Donald Trump in the GOP's Iowa caucuses, according to NBC News. Florida Senator Marco Rubio surprised many with a solid third place finish.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton appeared to have won the Iowa caucus after her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, dubbed it "a virtual tie."
Kelly said the results could be neutral to slightly positive for markets. "The way votes came out last night seemed to focus on more centrist candidates on both sides," he said.
European stocks held more than 2 percent lower in morning trade ET as low oil prices and earnings reports from BP and UBS weighed.
The oil giant reported a significant annual loss for 2015 and plans to cut 7,000 jobs, or about 9 percent of its workforce, by 2017.
The Swiss bank reported earnings that topped analyst forecasts, but the bank reported an unexpected outflow from its wealth management business.
U.S. stocks closed narrowly mixed Monday, stabilizing on the first trading day of February, despite declines in oil and soft China manufacturing data.
In mid-morning trade Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial average declined 234 points, or 1.42 percent, to 16,215, with Goldman Sachs decliners and DuPont and Pfizer the only gainers.
The S&P 500 fell 25 points, or 1.29 percent, to 1,914, with energy leading all 10 sectors lower.
The Nasdaq composite dropped 49 points, or 1.08 percent, to 4,570.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, traded near 21.5.
About five stocks declined for every advancer on the New York Stock Exchange, with an exchange volume of 249 million and a composite volume of nearly 1.1 billion.
Crude oil futures for March delivery fell $1.24 to $30.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures for April delivery gained $1.20 to $1,129.20 an ounce.
On tap this week:
Tuesday
Earnings: Gilead Sciences, Yahoo, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Edwards Lifesciences
Monthly vehicle sales
1 p.m. Kansas City Fed President Esther George on the economy
Wednesday
Earnings: Comcast, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Mondelez Intl., Novo Nordisk, Humana, Intl. Paper, MetLife, Allstate, AvalonBay, Boston Properties, GoPro, Lincoln Natl., NXP Semiconductor, Yum Brands
7 a.m.: Mortgage applications
8:15 a.m. ADP employment
9:45 a.m. Services PMI
10 a.m. ISM nonmanufacturing
10:30 a.m.: Oil inventories
Thursday
Earnings: AstraZeneca, ConocoPhillips, Philip Morris, Cigna, Clorox, Credit Suisse, Dunkin Brands, NY Times, Tempur Sealy, Hartford Fincl., LinkedIn, News Corp., Symantec, Decker's Outdoor, DeVry Education, Lions Gate
7:30 a.m.: Challenger Job-Cut Report
8:30 a.m. Initial claims; productivity and costs
10 a.m. Factory orders
10:30 a.m.: Natural gas inventories
4:30 p.m.: Fed Balance Sheet/Money Supply
5 p.m. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester on economy, policy
Friday
Earnings: BNP Paribas, Nippon Telegraph, Estee Lauder, Toyota Motors, Tyson Foods, Moody's, Weyerhaeuser, Aon, CME Group, Ametek
8:30 a.m. Employment report; international trade
1 p.m.: Oil rig count
3 p.m. Consumer credit, Treasury STRIPS
*Planner subject to change.
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