Wall Street has closed with strong losses (Dow Jones: -1.69%; S&P 500: -1.71%; Nasdaq: -2.20%) before him Fear renewed by the health of the economy of the US. This, at the end of a week marked by Donald Trump. The American president continues to condition the markets with their policies, both in economic matters, with the duty; as at the geopolitical level, after its approach to Russia. Trump is dynamiting the world geopolitical board with the Radical Turn of the United States raised on the Ukraine Warand its tariff threats On a planetary scale, which has stopped the enthusiasm of the American market after two years of strong revaluation. In fact, the US president studies the possibility of signing a memorandum that opens the door to New tariffs in Tax response on digital services that some countries impose on Great technology Americans. And although he S&P 500 It has marked historical maximums marginally this week, the truth is that investors do not know what to stick in the short term, which is reflected in a market that consolidates levels in recent weeks. At the moment, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has already confirmed that its strategy goes through 'Wait and see' How Trump's policies affect the American economy. Thus, he has anticipated that interest rates will remain at current levels during the next months. To this is added the rest of the Great technology American, after the success of China Deepseek in developing an artificial intelligence system (AI) similar to Chatgptbut with much less cost. As a reference, Chinese technological have shot in the stock market in recent weeks, while the American 'Big Tech' have deflated. In this sense, the market awaits the presentation of the results of Nvidiawhich will occur next Wednesday, February 26; And it can be key to the feeling of the market. In it weekly computationAmerican indices have ended a week in red, in which the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 2.5% each have been left, while the S&P 500 has yielded 1.7%.
News of the day
At present of the day, the most relevant have been the PMI manufacturing and PMI services February preliminaries in the US, who have shown a unequal behavior. While manufactures have increased for the second consecutive month, services have entered into contraction. Likewise, the Consumer Trust Index and the Inflation expectationselaborated by the University of Michigan, which have disappointed the market. At the business level, the Travel Technological Platform Booking It has risen after presenting its quarterly results. On the contrary, Akamai Technologies and Dropboxspecialized in cloud computing, they have fallen strongly after anticipating estimates below the expected. As is Unitedhealthwhich has collapsed before the investigation that the United States Department of Justice has started on Your Medicare billing practices.
Other markets
In other markets, oil Brent It has yielded 2.68% ($ 74.43). For its part, the euro 0.38% ($ 1,046) has depreciated, and ounce of gold 0.27% has fallen ($ 2,948). In addition, the 10 -year American Bonus Profitability It has relaxed 4,427% and the Bitcoin It has retreated 3.84% ($ 95,106).