Dow cuts losses as stocks fall in last hour of trade, after being took down by tasks information, hawkish Fed remarks

U.S. stocks came well off session lows however were still down in the last hour of trade on Thursday, as financiers examined personal payrolls information and expected Friday’s December tasks report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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was off 303 points, or 0.9%, to 32,967. The S&P 500.
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shed 1%, and the Nasdaq Composite.
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plunged 1.2%. Work information released Thursday recommended that the labor market still stays tight, which might require the reserve bank to keep treking rates of interest to a greater level than presently expected to tame inflation. Most significantly, ADP personal payrolls information revealed 235,000 tasks were produced in December, beating Wall Street’s expectations for 153,000 brand-new tasks.