Stock and bond markets remained calm, however. S&P500 futures were mostly flat after a mixed start to the week.
Apple’s stock retreated a touch after setting a record high on Monday just before an underwhelming launch of its new gadget.
The firm unveiled a costly augmented-reality headset called the Vision Pro in its riskiest bet since the introduction of the iPhone more than a decade ago.
The Vision Pro will start at $3,499, more than three times the cost of the priciest headset in Meta’s line of mixed and virtual reality devices.
The crypto world was far from calm, with Bitcoin trying to find its feet after a 5% recoil to three-month lows on Monday.
U.S. regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday for allegedly operating a “web of deception”, piling further pressure on the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange.
The Securities and Exchange Commission complaint listed 13 charges against Binance, Zhao and the operator of its purportedly independent U.S. exchange. Binance said it “respectfully” disagreed with the SEC’s allegations.
But investors have pulled around $790 million from the exchange and its U.S. affiliate in the last 24 hours, data firm Nansen said on Tuesday.
Oil retreated sharply once more despite Saudi Arabia’s weekend plans to cut crude output again, with many analysts seeing the solo move as partly a reflection of disagreements within the OPEC cartel.
The euro and euro debt yields slipped back on surveys showing household inflation expectations in the bloc subsiding.
And the yuan slipped lower after reports Chinese authorities had asked the nation’s biggest banks to lower their deposit rates for at least the second time in less than a year in an effort to boost the economy.
The dollar was marginally firmer overall.
