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USA Women's Olympic Water Polo Goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson holds her golden medal arsenic she poses for photos extracurricular the New York Stock Exchange, earlier ringing the opening bell, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

TOKYO – Stocks wobbled betwixt tiny gains and losses connected Wall Street Tuesday arsenic losses from exertion companies offset gains from banks and concern companies.

The S&P 500 fell little than 0.1% arsenic of 11:19 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average roseate 129 points, oregon 0.4%, to 35,231 and the Nasdaq fell 0.6%.

The bulk of companies successful the benchmark S&P 500 made gains, but they were kept successful cheque by exertion companies, which person an outsized value connected the index.

Banks made immoderate of the strongest gains arsenic enslaved yields edged higher. Banks payment from higher yields, which let them to complaint higher involvement rates connected loans. The output connected the 10-year Treasury roseate to 1.34% from 1.31% precocious Monday.

Oil prices pulled up aft sliding astir of the past week and into Monday. U.S. benchmark crude lipid roseate 3.2% and helped assistance vigor stocks. Exxon Mobil roseate 1.5%.

The broader marketplace remains choppy with investors successful the midst of a comparatively quiescent week. The latest circular of firm net is astir finished and determination are lone a fewer pieces of economical information expected.

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The lull successful enactment comes arsenic Wall Street is inactive trying to gauge the gait of economical maturation amid caller worries astir the latest question of COVID-19 from the much contagious delta variant. Parts of Japan, including Tokyo, the capital, stay nether a authorities of exigency arsenic surging numbers of infections enactment much COVID-19 patients successful already overburdened hospitals.

Inflation concerns and the Federal Reserve's aboriginal plans to easiness up connected its enactment for debased involvement rates besides hangs implicit the markets.

Earnings play is wrapping up with respective large names. AMC Entertainment, which was battered by movie theatre closures during the pandemic, roseate 1.2% aft reporting amazingly bully second-quarter results.

Ebay volition study its results connected Wednesday and Walt Disney volition study results connected Thursday.

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Kansas City Southern jumped 7.4% aft Canadian Pacific raised its connection for the railroad operator, reigniting a bidding warfare with Canadian National.

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