The US stock market indices opened in the red on Thursday amid a cooling US labour market and watchful investors eyeing artificial intelligence trade.
The S&P 500 opened 0.07% lower at 6,791.82, while Dow Jones opened 0.03% lower at 47,297.14, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index opened 0.20% lower at 23,453.64.
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As of 9:30 p.m. all benchmark indices had edged further downwards, with S&P 500 trading 0.97% lower, Nasdaq trading 1.62% lower and Dow Jones trading 0.80% lower.
Shares of Tesla Inc. opened in the red but soon erased losses to trade 0.44% higher at $464.76. The stock is facing volatility ahead of Tesla's annual meet which will begin shortly. As of 9:30 p.m. the stock had fallen nearly 3.88%.
During the meeting, Tesla shareholders will also vote on and potentially approve or decline Elon Musk's pay. If the force is in favor of Tesla Chief Elon Musk, he will soon be on the path to become the world's first trillionaire.
While Musk's pay packages have garnered positive votes from the shareholders of the company historically, this year may prove to be a tricky one with some roadblocks on the way.
Shares of Meta Platforms, Microsoft Corp., and Intel Corp. also slipped to trade 2.12%, 2%, and 3.32% lower.
After the markets opened, six out of the eleven sectoral indices traded in the red with the consumer discretionary sector leading the decline.
The remaining five sectors, namely energy, real estate, utilities, industrial, and materials traded higher with the energy sector leading the gains.
Among commodities, West Texas Intermediate crude fell 1.2% to $58.88 a barrel, while Brent Crude fell 0.36% to $63.29 a barrel. Whereas Spot gold was little changed at $3,978.93.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.1% while the euro rose 0.3% to $1.1530. The British Pound and Japanese Yen also rose 0.3% to $1.3090 and 0.6% to 153.23 per dollar, respectively.
Bitcoin, the largest traded cryptocurrency, fell 1.8% to $101,843.61.
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