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A three-year high for inflation may force the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) into action.

Gold prices fell, extending the previous session's losses as a stronger U.S. dollar and growing expectations of interest-rate hikes this year weighed on sentiment. "Limited support came from rising Treasury bonds as lower energy prices ease concerns about inflation," analysts at Saxo Bank said.

The Nasdaq broke key support Tuesday as AI stocks sold off, even as SpaceX reversed higher. FedEx and AI chip IPO Cerebras reported late. Micron earnings loom.

Two of the biggest U.S. investment banks see increasing risks tied to Federal Reserve rate forecasts, an uneasy peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran, and questions over the fate of the artificial intelligence investment wave—but remain bullish. Markets will tangle with resurgent inflation, AI capital expenditure concerns and a hawkish Fed over the next six months, the team said, but its broader earnings thesis is still likely to take the to around 7800 points by the end of the year.

Stocks could be facing the end-of-quarter reckoning many investors feared when Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveiled plans for its multibillion-dollar initial public offering and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh took over the central bank’s policy reigns earlier this month. The early signs of a late June “tech wreck” started to formulate Monday, with Google parent Alphabet shedding more than $225 billion in market value, its biggest slump in more than a year, and SpaceX extending its three-day decline to more than $600 billion. Shares in SpaceX were falling 4.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, putting them below $150 a share.

June 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday, following sharp losses in megacap and semiconductor stocks as investors braced for a more hawkish Federal Reserve and

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index dropped, while tech futures plunged as Micron, Nvidia and Sandisk dived premarket.

Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower after a mixed start to trading on Monday, following the holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Federal holiday. We may start to see some end-of-the-quarter reallocations and selling for Hedge funds, ETFs, and Mutual Funds this week, and today looks like a starting point. With most corporate buybacks ... Here Are Tuesday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Centene, Darden Restaurants, Flutter Entertainment, GE Healthcare, IBM, Nike,

The return of inflation after the pandemic has left a question mark over whether the Put still exists—and plenty of debate about whether it is a good thing.

A key phrase was missing in the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement, and it has massive implications for the stock market.

Futures for the Nasdaq were more than 2% lower in early European trade as a global selloff in technology stocks gathered pace.

Asian shares were mixed in subdued trading early Tuesday, as recent enthusiasm cooled and markets faced uncertainty about efforts to end the war in Iran. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.9% in morning trading to 71,681.29. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up less than 0.1% in morning trading at 8,822.10.

Tuesday's catalysts include flash PMIs, Richmond Fed data, ADP weekly employment, Treasury bill and 2-year note auctions, and May money supply.

Investors have several reasons to expect a more cautious message from JPMorgan. The S&P 500 rally has already been powerful; valuations are no longer cheap, and the market has been balancing Fed uncertainty, stretched positioning, and questions about how much good news is priced in. However, in ...

Alphabet’s stock more than doubled on a simple, spectacular, and staggering premise: it built an AI engine so powerful it can’t keep it fed.

The Dow rose 270 points, or 0.6%. The Nasdaq was down 0.1%. The major indexes tumbled on Wednesday in the wake of Kevin Warsh’s first Federal Open Market Committee meeting as chairman of the Federal Reserve, but traders bought the dip on Thursday.

Despite the interim US-Iran deal and a considerable fall in oil prices, risk assets have barely moved, with the S&P 500 still beneath its record high from early June and credit spreads widening. The puzzle reflects four competing forces, Deutsche Bank analyst Henry Allen argues. First,...

US futures were pointing higher at the start of the week as investors return from the Juneteenth holiday weekend, with technology stocks expected to lead gains despite lingering uncertainty over the Middle East and the prospect of further Federal Reserve tightening. Dow Jones futures were up...

The moves suggested a reset for U.S. Treasury yields tied to the surprisingly hawkish tone established by new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh last week, who hinted toward near-term rate hikes to tame price pressures and break a long run of missed inflation targets. “We recognize that inflation has been running well ahead of the Fed’s long-stated inflation goal of 2% that’s been going on for more than five years,” Warsh told reporters in Washington last week after his first press event as Fed chairman. The Fed’s economic forecasts slashed 2026 GDP predictions to 2.2%, and added 90 basis points to its headline PCE inflation estimate, taking it to 3.6%.

Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed as we prepare to finish the last full week of the second quarter. We finished a wild holiday-shortened trading week last Thursday, as Friday was the federal Juneteenth holiday, and all major indices rebounded smartly from the Federal Reserve-induced sell-off on Wednesday. Details of the signed memorandum of ... Here Are Monday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Accenture, Apple, Boyd Gaming, BWX Technologies, Conoco-Phillips, Estee Laud

The moves suggested a reset for U.S. Treasury yields tied to the surprisingly hawkish tone established by new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh last week, who hinted toward near-term rate hikes to tame price pressures and break a long run of missed inflation targets. “We recognize that inflation has been running well ahead of the Fed’s long-stated inflation goal of 2% that’s been going on for more than five years,” Warsh told reporters in Washington last week after his first press event as Fed chairman. The Fed’s economic forecasts slashed 2026 GDP predictions to 2.2%, and added 90 basis points to its headline PCE inflation estimate, taking it to 3.6%.

US equity investors will focus this week on quarterly earnings from Micron Technology (MU) and infla

Warsh made his intentions clear -- and it's not the best news for an expensive stock market.

Investors were preparing for a far more cautious Wall Street, with sticky inflation figures and a Fed that refused to give markets the rate-cut signal they wanted. Wells Fargo just switched up that setup. The bank just revamped its S&P 500 view for the rest of 2026, TheFly noted, citing ...

US stock futures slipped against a backdrop of uncertainty ahead of a key inflation reading.

Inflation remains elevated, and the new Fed chair aims to change that.

Wall Street tried to decode Kevin Warsh's Fed debut and its potential impact on stocks.

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The stock market works to build on a rebound from support as Micron Technology and FedEx report and the S&P indexes rebalance.