The S&P 500 rose on Monday, spurred by a rise in technology shares, to start a shortened holiday week. The broad market index climbed 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 133 points, or 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.7%. Key stocks linked to artificial intelligence offered a boost to the broader market. Nvidia shares rose 1% after Reuters said the company is looking to begin shipments of its H200 chips to China by mid-February. Meanwhile, Micron Technology and Oracle climbed almost 2.5% and more than 1%, respectively. Wall Street is coming off a mixed week for the...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday delivers his last scheduled remarks before the Fed's next meeting with the economy enjoying stronger-than-expected growth and a recent jump in productivity, but still adjusting to tariff and immigration policies that economists worry could lead to both higher inflation and higher unemployment. Challenging for a central bank responsible for keeping inflation low and employment as high as possible, Powell and his colleagues are also facing a drought of official data amid a U.S. government shutdown that has delayed the September jobs report and...
Global financial markets are moving cautiously following growing concerns about the United States' fiscal policy, which is considered too expansionary. The surge in the budget deficit and rising US government bond yields have led market participants to assess the risks of debt financing as increasing. Investors are beginning to weigh whether this fiscal pressure will limit the Fed's room to cut interest rates more aggressively next year. The US dollar remains strong, while gold prices tend to strengthen slightly due to increased demand for safe-haven assets amid policy uncertainty....
The latest minutes from the Federal Reserve's September meeting suggest policymakers are leaning toward further rate cuts this year. While most officials backed the quarter-point reduction, the discussion reflected growing concern about labour market risks and a more balanced inflation outlook. The tone overall was cautious but pointed to a continued easing bias. Most participants judged it would likely be appropriate to ease policy further over the remainder of 2025. Some participants noted financial conditions suggested policy may not be particularly restrictive. Those participants...
The minutes of the United States Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy meeting on September 16-17 will be released on Wednesday at 6:00 PM GMT. The US central bank decided to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points (bps) to a range of 4%-4.25% at this meeting, but Fed Governor Stephen Miran preferred to cut the benchmark rate by 50 bps. Jerome Powell and co. decided to cut the benchmark interest rate in September The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to cut the interest rate by 25 bps in September, in line with widely anticipated. In the policy statement, the Fed...
Systematic hedge funds have lost money every day since October began, according to a Goldman Sachs client note. These speculators, whose algorithms ride market trends until they peter out and who use market signals rather than views on the economic aspects of the company stocks they trade, have printed negative returns each day since the start of October, the note released late on Monday showed. As of Monday, systematic or quantitative hedge funds were down around 1.8% for the month so far in one of the worst four-day trading returns in almost two years, said Goldman. Losses stemmed from...