🌐 U.S. stocks end Q1 on a high note! This week, the focus is on whether the U.S. PCE index for February, released on Friday, March 29th, will drop or show signs of bouncing back along with the CPI. Despite February's CPI and PPI exceeding expectations, Federal Reserve officials have not changed their expectation of three rate cuts this year, possibly limiting the PCE's market impact. March marks the end of the qu...
AMC Entertainment$AMC Entertainment(AMC.US)$stock is back on the dilution train. The heavily indebted cinema chain and once-loved meme stock is heading to the market to sell another $250 million worth of shares in order to pay down its strangling debt load obtained during the heights of the covid pandemic. AMC stock slipped 15.8% lower to $3.65 per share at the time of writing on Thursday afternoon. The broader market ha...
US blue-chips ended their best quarter in five years, with the S&P 500 squeezing out a 0.1 per cent gain even as big tech names including Apple, Tesla and Meta dragged the Nasdaq Composite to a similar-sized loss. Trading was cautious ahead of Friday’s bank holiday, which will still see the publication of February’s personal consumption expenditure report while Fed chair Jay Powell is due to speak at an event in San Francisco. Thursday’s small gain left...
Market expectations for the first Fed rate cut have now been pushed back from July to September as of this morning. For those keeping score, investors were predicting as many as SEVEN rate cuts at the start of the year, with the first move in March. When March came, they pushed it back to June. Then they pushed it back from June to July. Now markets expect it to happen in September, but will the Fed really cut rates less than two months befo...
Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, said Fed chair Jerome Powell has maintained that the narrative of disinflation remains intact, even in the face of inflationary overshoots observed in January and February. He noted that there is a sense Powell has downplayed the significance of the impending release of PCE, by indicating that it may not significantly alter the prevailing narrative around inflation. “Recent consumer confidence indicators paint a less optimistic picture” ...
Good morning mooers! Here are things you need to know about today's market: ●S&P 500 Ends First Quarter at All-Time High ●Positive Returns Recorded by Most of the Recent IPOs on Bursa Malaysia ●Palm Oil Smallholder Cluster Model Can Increase Production, Says Plantation and Commodities Minister ●Stocks to watch: Gas Malaysia, MyNews -moomoo News MY Wall Street Summary The$S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ended the fina...
RECAP The$S&P 500 Index(.SPX.US)$ended the final, holiday-shortened week of the first quarter at a new all-time high Thursday. The$Dow Jones Industrial Average(.DJI.US)$gained about 0.12%, also ending at a record, near 39,807. The S&P 500 index rose 0.11%. The$Nasdaq Composite Index(.IXIC.US)$fell 0.12%. The market is awaiting February PCE PCE data, coming out on Friday. SECTORS Oil prices had a quarter gain of 16%, dr...
Good morning mooers! The cold rain made it hard to get to the office this morning in Jersey, but stock news never rests! I'm Kevin Travers, moomoo News and Community manager, and here are today's Market Moovers: RECAP The market is climbing after updated GDP figures from Q4 came in at 3.4%, compared to the last quarter's 4.9% figure. Markets climbed at open on the news, investors excited lower growth might mean lowe interest rat...
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