Although investors believe that the Federal Reserve will maintain high interest rates for a longer period of time, the strong corporate earnings season supported the market, and the three major Wall Street stock market indices all closed higher today.
$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$Up 146.43 points, or 0.38%, to close 38386.09 points.
$S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$Up 16.21 points, or 0.32%, to close 5116.17 points.
$NASDAQ(NASDAQ.US)$Up 55.18 points, or 0.35%, to close at 15983.08 points.
As optimism rises, I wonder if it will continue to drive Malaysian stocks to continue to rise?
$FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index(.KLSE.MY)$

$USD/JPY(USDJPY.FX)$
get ready again for intervention at 156

$USD/JPY(USDJPY.FX)$
intervention?

Key events happening this week
- FOMC meeting
- Fed’s interest rate decision
- Powell’s press conference / Q&A session
- Apple, Amazon and AMD earnings
- Jobs report
- ISM non manufacturing PMI data
$Spdr S&P Bank Etf(KBE.US)$ $Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLF.US)$ $Intel(INTC.US)$ $Domino's Pizza(DPZ.US)$ $Logitech International(LOGI.US)$   $ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF(SQQQ.US)$ $Bank of America(BAC.US)$   $Coinbase(COIN.US)$   $Marathon Digital(MARA.US)$ $USD(USDindex.FX)$ $Block(SQ.US)$ $Disney(DIS.US)$ $Johnson & Johnson(JNJ.US)$ $Trump Media & Technology(DJT.US)$ $Lemonade(LMND.US)$

$Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$ $S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ $Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$
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Powell will address reporters after the Fed's rate decision on Wednesday, when the central bank is widely expected to hold borrowing costs at a more than two decade high. Expectations for rate reductions have been pushed further into 2024, and investors are now ...

Coming off of substantial bottoms. A Big turnaround to a new direction.
Dirty Dirty Coal 🤑
$Hallador Energy(HNRG.US)$
$American Resources(AREC.US)$
and Nickel
$SPROTT NICKEL MINERS ETF(NIKL.US)$