(Sharecast News) - Wall Street stocks traded lower early on Monday as market participants digested last month's non-manufacturing purchasing managers index from the Institute for Supply Management.
As of 1525 GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.79% at 34,157.57, while the S&P 500 lost 1.03% to 4,029.94 and the Nasdaq Composite came out the gate 1.13% weaker at 11,332.46.
The Dow opened 272.31 points lower on Monday, easily reversing modest gains recorded in the previous session despite a better-than-expected non-farm payrolls report.
Stocks traded lower early on Monday, ignoring cues from Asian markets from overnight, where shares rallied after China began to ease certain Covid-19 testing rules in a number of cities and hinted that even more relaxations may follow.
On the macro front, the Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing PMI unexpectedly jumped to 56.5 in November, up from 54.4 in October - the lowest reading since May 2020 - and beating market forecasts for a print of 53.3. Business activity increased faster, rising to 64.7 from 55.7, and employment rebounded to 51.5 from 49.1, while a slowdown was seen in new orders and backlogs of orders. At the same time, price pressures continued to ease, coming in at 70 versus 70.7 a month earlier, while inventories shrank less, rising to 47.9 from 47.2.
Elsewhere, S&P Global's composite PMI came to 46.4 in November, little changed from preliminary estimates of 46.3 but down from October's print of 48.2 and pointing to a fifth consecutive decline in private sector business activity. S&P's services PMI was revised slightly higher to 46.2, up from preliminary estimates of 46.1, but also continued to point to a fifth straight month of falling services activity as the reading was the second-sharpest decline since May 2020.
Finally, new orders for US manufactured goods rose 1% in October, according to the Census Bureau, following a 0.3% increase in the prior month and above market expectations for an uptick of 0.7%.
In the corporate space, United Airlines shares flew almost 2% higher after analysts at Morgan Stanley upgraded the carrier from 'equal weight' to 'overweight'.
Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com
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