US stocks had ended little changed on Friday after a payrolls report did little to recast expectations for an interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve this month and bank stocks cooled to round out their fourth straight week of gains.

A US Labor Department report showed employers in private and public sectors hired more people last month than economists had expected, further strengthening expectations of a hike when the US central bank meets on December 13 and 14.

But investors’ reaction to Friday’s jobs report was muted as markets appeared to have already priced in a hike this month.

“If it is in the high one hundred (thousands) on payrolls then everybody is pretty much just yawning at it,” said JeffWeniger, senior strategist at BMO Private Bank in Chicago.

Major Wall Street indexes have hit a series of record highs over the past three weeks in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, as investors have rotated into sectors expected to benefit from campaign promises of tax cuts, infrastructure spending and bank deregulation.

The S&P 500 financial index has risen 13.1 per cent since the November 8 vote, while industrials have climbed more than 7 per cent.

But the rally in financials eased on Friday, and the index ended down 1 per cent as the worst performing of the 11 major S&P sectors.

“There has been a lot of crowded trades going on and the zoom up in financials looks like it is probably one of them,’’ said Weniger.

Goldman Sachs, off 1.4 per cent, fell for the first time in four days, while Bank of America, off 1.3per cent, Citigroup, down 2.2 per cent, and Wells Fargo lost 1.4 per cent as the top drags on the S&P.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 21.5 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 19,170.42, the S&P 500 gained 0.87point, or 0.04 per cent, to 2,191.95 and the Nasdaq Composite added 4.55 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 5,255.65.

For the week, the Dow gained 0.1 per cent, the S&P 500 shed 1 per cent and the Nasdaq dropped 2.7 per cent.

Starbucks fell 2.2 per cent to $57.21 after the coffee chain operator said Howard Schultz would step down as chief executive officer.

Pandora surged 16.1 per cent after CNBC reported the internet radio company was in talks to sell itself to Sirius XM.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a1.21-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.05-to-1 ratio favoured advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 18 new 52-week highs and six new lows;the Nasdaq Composite recorded 97 new highs and 51 new lows.

About 7.03 billion shares changed hands in US exchanges compared with the 7.94 billion daily average over the last 20 sessions.

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