Wall Street drops as Apple, Tesla weigh on indexes
Live MintWall Street's main indexes fell on the first trading day of the year following declines in Apple and energy stocks, with investors awaiting the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes for further clarity on the path of future interest rate hikes. Most of the major S&P 500 sectors were in the red, with information technology stocks pulled lower by a 3% drop in the shares of iPhone maker Apple Inc following a report of a rating downgrade by Exane BNP Paribas. The main U.S. stock indexes ended 2022 with their steepest annual losses since 2008 against the backdrop of the Fed's fastest pace of rate hikes since the 1980s. Investors on Wednesday will closely monitor the minutes of the Fed's December policy meeting, when the central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points after four back-to-back 75-bps hikes and signaled rates could stay higher for a while.