S&P inches up, Nasdaq declines as tech weighs ahead of Fed decision
Apple falls after analyst flags weak demand for new iPhones
Intel rises after report chipmaker qualifies for federal grants
Boeing dips after it freezes hiring, weighs temporary furloughs
Indexes: Dow up 0.55%, S&P up 0.13%, Nasdaq off 0.52%
Updated at 4:07 p.m. ET/2007 GMT
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) -The S&P 500 eked out a slight gain in a subdued session whilethe Nasdaq fell on Monday, weighed down by a drop in technology stocks as investors assessed the likelihood of an upsized rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve this week.
The S&P technology index .SPLRCT, the best performer of the 11 major S&P sectors this year, lost 0.95% as the session's biggest decliner.
Apple AAPL.O dropped 2.78% asthe biggest drag toboth the benchmark S&P index and Nasdaq Composite, after an analyst at TF International Securities said demand for its latest iPhone 16 models was lower than expected.
The demand concerns also weighed on chipmakers, with Nvidia NVDA.O, the best performer on the S&P 500 this year, down 1.95%, BroadcomAVGO.O off 2.19% andMicron Tech MU.O 4.43% lower topush the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index .SOX down by 1.41%.
"If people want to raise a lot of money quickly, how do they do it? They go sell the names that they can sell really quickly without necessarily destroying it. So you can sell Apple, you can sell Nvidia, you can sell Amazon, you can sell Microsoft very quickly and raise a lot of cash," said Ken Polcari, chief market strategist at SlateStone Wealth in Jupiter, Florida.
"They want to do it in front of the Fed in case they're getting nervous or they want to raise cash to just have cash available to put to work."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 228.30 points, or 0.55%, to 41,622.08, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 7.07 points, or 0.13%, to 5,633.09 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC lost 91.85 points, or 0.52%, to 17,592.13.
Of the 11 S&P 500 sectors, only tech and consumer discretionary stocks .SPLRCD were lower on the day while financials .SPSY, up 1.22%, and energy .SPNY, up 1.2%, werethe best performers.
Markets have rallied since the start of this year on expectations the Fed would begin loosening its monetary policy, while data has suggested the economy could avoid entering a recession.
The Dow closed at a recordhigh on Monday and the S&P 500 is less than 1% from its closing record set in July.
Market expectations on the size of the rate cut the Federal Reserve will announce on Wednesday have been volatile in recent days and are currently pricing in a 59% chance for a 50-basis-point cut, according to CME's FedWatch Tool.
Intel Corp INTC.O jumped 6.36% aftera report showed it qualified for as much as $3.5 billion in federal grants to make semiconductors for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Boeing BA.N declined 0.78% afterthe planemaker said it was freezing hiring and weighing temporary furloughs in the coming weeks as its workers' strike stretched to its fourth day.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.74-to-1 ratio on the New York Stock Exchange. On the Nasdaq, advancers outnumbered decliners by a 1.17-to-1 ratio.
The S&P 500 posted 88 new 52-week highs and one new low while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 143 new highs and 83 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 9.74 billion shares, compared with the 10.75-billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
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Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Rod Nickel
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