Stock Market Today: Tech Drubbed; Nasdaq Has Worst Week in 11 Months
The 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since early 2020 on Friday.
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Investors saw another volatile session Friday as the broader markets swung wildly in the wake of the latest jobs report.
Before markets opened, the Labor Department said the U.S. added 199,000 new jobs in December, not even half of what economists were expecting.
Still, the unemployment rate fell to 3.9% from November's 4.2%, average hourly wages jumped 4.7% on an annualized basis, and the 6.4 million jobs the country gained in 2021 were the most on record for any year since the data began being tracked.

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"The headline number was quite disappointing, but looking under the surface, we see that wages grew faster than expected and the unemployment rate is already beneath 4%," says Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist for LPL Financial.
Also on Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield continued its climb, hitting the 1.80% level for the first time since January 2020.
As such, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite erased the modest gains it had in early trading to end the day down 1% at 14,935 – closing out its worst week since February (-4.5%).
The S&P 500 Index also gave back an early lead to finish 0.4% lower at 4,677. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, was off 124 points at its session low before swinging to a triple-digit gain and then closing the session down 4.8 points at 36,231.
The S&P 500 and Dow also suffered weekly losses (-1.9%; -0.3%), though not as severe as the Nasdaq.
Other news in the stock market today:
- The small-cap Russell 2000 slid 1.2% to 2,179.
- The jobs report was good to gold futures, which improved by 0.5% to $1,797.40 per ounce.
- U.S. crude oil futures' recent run stopped on Friday, with next month's contracts off 0.7% to $78.90 per barrel. But that still represents a nearly 5% rise for oil futures in the first full week of 2022.
- Bitcoin shed 3% to $41,912.19. (Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day; prices reported here are as of 4 p.m.)
- T-Mobile US (TMUS (opens in new tab), -5.0%) struggled more than most to close out the week after its latest subscriber numbers missed the mark. Q4 postpaid net subscriber additions of 844,000 (which brought full-year adds to 2.9 million) were less than analyst expectations for 868,000.
- The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of speaker maker Sonos (SONO (opens in new tab), +0.7%) Thursday night, saying that Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL (opens in new tab), -0.5%) violated Sonos smart speaker patents. The ruling is a potential boon for SONO, which could generate new revenues through licensing agreements. Alphabet says it has already made modifications to affected products, so the ruling won't mean anything to its existing technology, but it plans to appeal regardless.
- Gambling stocks headed higher Friday ahead of the beginning of mobile sports gambling in New York state, which is set to commence Saturday. DraftKings (DKNG (opens in new tab), +5.6%) and Caesars Entertainment (CZR (opens in new tab), +3.5%) were among the companies that have already received a green light to operate in the state. A few other betting names, including Bally's (BALY (opens in new tab), +3.3%) and Wynn Resorts (WYNN (opens in new tab), +0.1%), have only been conditionally licensed but are pending final approval.
Don't Read Too Much Into Today's Jobs Miss
"Inflation is the main concern for the Federal Reserve," says Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance. "The report today is unlikely to do anything to change the Fed's mind in terms of an accelerated rate hike and balance sheet management approach."
Zaccarelli says that in the existing environment – where markets are reacting to high inflation and the belief the Fed is going to hike rates as soon as March – it's more prudent for investors to balance their portfolio with more cyclical stocks like financials and industrials versus defensive ones (consumer staples and utilities, for instance).
He also believes value stocks are poised to outperform their growth counterparts in the short term.
As part of our series on the best investment opportunities in 2022, we recently looked at 12 of the top-rated value plays in the new year. These include picks from several industries, including fintech and auto manufacturing. Check them out.
With over a decade of experience writing about the stock market, Karee Venema is an investing editor and options expert at Kiplinger.com. She joined the publication in April 2021 after 10 years of working as an investing writer and columnist at Schaeffer's Investment Research. In her previous role, Karee focused primarily on options trading, as well as technical, fundamental and sentiment analysis.
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