By Carolina Mandl

(Reuters) – The Nasdaq ended decrease on Friday as megacap development shares got here below stress after Treasury yields pointed to increased rates of interest and shares of ride-hailing agency Lyft plunged following a downbeat revenue forecast.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury notice rose to their highest in additional than a month following an public sale on Thursday of 30-year bonds that noticed weak demand. [US/]

“Buyers are questioning what the bond market is telling us that financial indicators aren’t telling us,” mentioned Sam Stovall, chief funding strategist at CFRA Analysis. “Larger bond yields are going to extra adversely have an effect on the upper development expertise firms.”

However a rally in power shares as oil costs climbed on Russia’s plans to chop crude provides helped push up the Dow and the .

The ended up 169.52 factors, or 0.5%, to 33,869.4, the S&P 500 gained 8.98 factors, or 0.22%, to 4,090.48 and the dropped 71.46 factors, or 0.61%, to 11,718.12.

The Nasdaq posted its first weekly fall this yr, down 2.41%, whereas the S&P 500 ended the week decrease 1.11% and the Dow Jones misplaced 0.17%, in every week dominated by hawkish commentary from U.S. Federal Reserve officers and earnings stories from greater than half of the S&P 500 constituents.

That comes after a stellar efficiency by shares in January. This month, nevertheless, robust jobs knowledge and feedback from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stoked worries about how a lot increased rates of interest might have to climb.

“What has been happening for the previous few days is that each different day there’s a Fed governor going to speak hawkish,” mentioned Kevin Rendino, chief government of asset supervisor 180 Diploma Capital.

The Russell 1000 Progress index that homes many large-cap development names fell 0.33%.

Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:) plummeted 36.44% because it lowered costs, elevating considerations it was falling behind larger rival Uber Applied sciences (NYSE:) Inc. Uber shares additionally dropped 4.43%.

A lot of the 11 main S&P 500 sectors edged increased. The power sector jumped 3.92% as oil costs climbed on Russia’s plans to chop crude provides, whereas the buyer discretionary sector fell 1.22%. [O/R]

Greater than half of the corporations listed on the S&P 500 have reported earnings, with 69% beating revenue estimates for the quarter, in keeping with Refinitiv knowledge.

U.S. shopper sentiment improved additional in February month-on-month, however households anticipated increased inflation to persist over the subsequent 12 months, the College of Michigan’s preliminary February studying confirmed.

After U.S. equities have been rattled over the week by robust jobs knowledge, buyers are ready for January shopper inflation knowledge subsequent week for readability on the Fed’s rate-hike path.

Quantity on U.S. exchanges was 10.43 billion shares, in contrast with the 11.85 billion common for the total session over the past 20 buying and selling days.

Declining points outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.03-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.35-to-1 ratio favored decliners.

The S&P 500 posted 3 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 36 new highs and 68 new lows.