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Late Equity Rout Sees Worst Day Since October For S&P 500

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  • The late equity rout across indices appears to have slowed, after modest selling pressure, perhaps on late profit taking, snowballed into the largest sell program since Jul and before that Mar 9.
  • It’s seen ESH4 touch a low of 4671.0 after a session high of 4830.75 marked a further clearing of prior resistance and a move closer to 4854.75 (Fibo projection of Nov -Dec price swings).
  • Across the main e-minis, the S&P 500 trades -1.1%, Nasdaq 100 -1.3%, Dow -0.9% and Russell 2000 -1.4%, with the latter seeing a swift reversal from earlier outperformance.
  • Within cash S&P 500, losses are seen across all sectors, led by consumer staples (-1.7%), consumer discretionary (-1.5%) plus utilities, financials, IT and industrials all with -1.3% declines. Communication services (unch) are the outperformers, relatively buoyed by still large gains for Alphabet (+1.7%) who have pared gains but still benefit from a reported restructuring of their ad sales unit.
  • The NDX has seen a strong pullback off fresh record highs of 16860.68 notched an hour after the open, currently 280pts off those levels. SPX never managed to re-touch the 2022 highs of 4818.62 earlier, peaking at 4778.01.

S&P 500 e-miniSource: Bloomberg

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