Stocks dipped lower on Tuesday as market participants digested signs that the U.S. economy is beginning to slow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 200 points, while the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite lost about 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively.
Here's how the market settled on Tuesday:
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq Composite Index
The S&P 500 posted its first decline in five days as a reading of job openings fell below 10 million for the first time since May 2021, signaling that labor market is cooling in response to pressures from rising interest rates.
Available positions totaled 9.93 million in February, according to the Labor Department's monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey published Tuesday. That total marked a decline of 632,000 from January's downwardly revised print and came in below Wall Street estimates. Still, the quits rate, which is seen as a sign of labor confidence as workers have the ability to switch jobs, rose by 146,000 in February to just over 4 million.
Also in the news, JPMorgan Chase
"The current crisis is not yet over, and even when it is behind us, there will be repercussions from it for years to come," Dimon said.
"Any crisis that damages Americans' trust in their banks damages all banks -- a fact that was known even before this criss. While it is true that this bank crisis 'benefited' larger banks due to the inflow of deposits they received from smaller institutions, the notion that this meltdown was good for them in any way is absurd," Dimon added.
Elsewhere, Credit Suisse Chair Axel Lehmann apologized to shareholders on Tuesday for the bank's failure and forced takeover by UBS
In single-stock news, Disney
Looking ahead, market participants will react to ADP monthly jobs data for March, with Wall Street expecting that U.S. private employers added 210,000 positions for the month.