US: Stocks pull back from records as investors weigh data
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[NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks retreated from records early Thursday as markets weighed a dip in jobless claims and a jump in wholesale prices.
US jobless claims fell by 12,000 last week to 375,000 seasonally adjusted, the third consecutive week of declines, in the latest sign of an improving job market.
Meanwhile, producer prices increased one per cent in July from the prior month, double the increase expected by analysts, while the annual rate hit another record 6.1 per cent.
The report comes on the heels of Wednesday's consumer price index that was seen by investors as more benign than expected.
About 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.2 per cent at 35,430.62, and the broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.1 per cent to 4,441.40. The Dow and S&P 500 have closed at records the last two sessions.
The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index declined 0.2 per cent to 14,729.25.
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