Wall Street slips on JPMorgan warning as December inflation holds at 2.7% — Visa, Mastercard tumble
U.S. stock indexes slipped on Tuesday as financials dragged after JPMorgan warned that a proposed cap on credit-card interest rates could hit consumers, hammering payment stocks. At 11:28 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 338.22 points, or 0.68%, the S&P 500 fell 0.29% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.21%. Visa slid 4.7% and Mastercard sank 5.3%, and traders still priced in at least two 25-basis-point cuts later this year; “The Fed is likely to take its time and absorb more data,” said Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital.
