Wall Street opens lower ahead of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's speech

Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday as investors sold off high-flying growth stocks on valuation concerns ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony before Congress

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Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell

(Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday as investors sold off high-flying growth stocks on valuation concerns ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony before Congress.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 19.8 points, or 0.06%, at the open to 31501.89. The S&P 500 fell 19.4 points, or 0.50%, to 3857.07​, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 270.4 points, or 2.00%, to 13262.607 at the opening bell.

 

(Reporting by Devik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)

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First Published: Tue, February 23 2021. 20:32 IST
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