Federal Reserve, Wall Street and Jerome Powell
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Walmart earnings are in early focus before the highly anticipated start of the Federal Reserve's gathering at Jackson Hole.
Wall Street is holding a bit steadier following the prior day’s swoon for Nvidia, Palantir and other darlings swept up in the mania around artificial-intelligence technology
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Wall Street holds steadier following mixed profit reports from Target, Lowe’s and other retailers
The week’s biggest news for Wall Street is likely arriving on Friday, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will give a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The setting has been home to big policy announcements from the Fed in the past, and the hope on Wall Street is that Powell will hint that an interest rate cut is coming soon.
Wall Street continues to drift Wednesday while news of a leadership change at Target took some of the spotlight away from the latest batch of corporate earnings reports.
Dow futures slipped slightly on Wednesday as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s upcoming remarks at the Jackson Hole Symposium.
The day’s action again centered around stocks caught up in the mania around artificial-intelligence technology.
Asian shares are mostly higher after a mixed finish on Wall Street, where shares in Nvidia, Palantir and other superstar stocks pared their earlier steep losses
T-minus one day — As investors across Wall Street anxiously await Fed Chair Powell’s speech Friday at Jackson Hole in Wyoming, stocks slipped Wednesday with the S&P 500 dropping 0.2 percent and the technology-heavy Nasdaq sliding 0.6 percent.
Wall Street analysts are signaling that all this drama contains serious risks for the bond market, the dollar, and U.S. assets generally. If Trump gets his way, and U.S. monetary policy ends up being run by people who will do what he wants—as opposed to maintaining full employment and low inflation—then expect investors to recoil.
Shares on Wall Street dropped for a second successive day on Wednesday as weakness in the tech sector persisted while a key meeting of central bankers later this week remained in focus for currency and rates traders.
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