Stocks hit especially hard include Moderna, Nvidia and Google holding company Alphabet.
The Federal Reserve’s signaled policy change is having a predictable effect — pushing stock prices lower as bond yields become more attractive.
This reverses some very strong action for U.S. stocks — at least for a day. Below is a list of 10 stocks that had increased at least 50% for 2021 through Sept. 27, but were pulled back the most on Sept. 28.
The Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIAdeclined 1.6%, while the S&P 500 IndexSPXfell 2%. The Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMPfared worst, tumbling 2.8%.
The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notesBX:TMUBMUSD10Yincreased by 5 basis points to 1.55%. That was up from 1.33% only a week earlier.
Combined, there are 523 stocks in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100NDXindexes. Among these stocks, 50 had risen at least 50% so far in 2021 through Sept. 27, excluding dividends, according to data provided by FactSet. Here are the 10 that declined the most on Sept. 28 — actually 11 stocks, as two common-share classes of Alphabet Inc.GOOGLGOOGare included:
