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(Reuters) – Wall Street\u2019s main indexes fell on Thursday as investors resumed a shift out of big technology-related firms, while an unexpected rise in weekly jobless claims pointed to a fragile recovery in the labor market.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 2, 2020. REUTERS\/Carlo Allegri\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

Shares of Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Tesla Inc and Alphabet Inc were down between 1.1% and 2.5%, pressuring both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.<\/p>\n

Facebook Inc shares slipped 2.4% as Wall Street assessed the wider ramifications of its move to block all news content in Australia.<\/p>\n

A stronger-than-expected earnings season, progress in countrywide vaccination efforts and hopes of a $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package helped U.S. stock indexes hit record highs at the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n

However, concerns over a potential rise in inflation have pushed investors to book profit on stocks with high valuation in the S&P 500 technology and communications services sectors, which have underpinned a 76% rise in the benchmark index since its March 2020 lows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of irrational exuberance built into things heading into the year … then we started to enter an environment where risk actually became a factor once again and notably inflationary risk,\u201d said Peter Essele, head of portfolio management at Commonwealth Financial Network in Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s a question of whether the fundamentals are going to match the level of prices that currently exist in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Labor Department\u2019s report showed initial claims for state unemployment benefits were 861,000 last week, compared with 848,000 in the prior week, partly due to potential claims related to the temporary closure of automobile plants due to a global semiconductor chip shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be some time and a choppy return to a normal employment environment. But, by and large, as vaccines begin to take hold as we get out from under the COVID overhang, you\u2019re going to see a decline in unemployment,\u201d Essele said.<\/p>\n

Only the defensive utilities sector was in positive territory, out of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors.<\/p>\n

Walmart Inc slid 5.5% after the world\u2019s largest retailer missed quarterly profit estimates and predicted fiscal 2022 net sales to rise in low single digits.<\/p>\n

At 12:13 p.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 275.87 points, or 0.87%, at 31,337.15, the S&P 500 was down 39.18 points, or 1.00%, at 3,892.15 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 199.51 points, or 1.43%, at 13,765.99.<\/p>\n

Marriott International Inc was down 0.1% after reporting a quarterly loss as the hotel chain\u2019s bookings declined due to pandemic-induced travel restrictions.<\/p>\n

Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 3.21-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 3.29-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index recorded 12 new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 74 new highs and 14 new lows.<\/p>\n

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