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Stocks have quickly moved on from Kevin Warsh’s hawkish first meeting as Federal Reserve Chairman. But other parts of the markets haven't.
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<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than 1% and the Nasdaq gaining nearly 2%.</p><p>The session began with oil prices sliding to their lowest levels since early March after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement that extends the April ceasefire by another 60 days.</p><p>But Alexander Morris, CEO and chief investment officer at F/m Investments, warns that lower oil prices won't immediately ease other inflationary pressures.</p><p>"Certainly energy prices are set to come down and meaningfully so in the short run. But energy prices have been elevated for a while, and that influences way more than just the cost at the pump. That's the cost of fertilizer for the Northern Hemisphere. All of the plants that needed to be planted and immediately fertilized, they've been in the ground for weeks. So that is now baked into the price of our future soft commodities, grains, corn, soybeans, et cetera. So we're going to see this reverberate."</p><p>Investors on Thursday were still assessing Kevin Warsh's first press conference as Federal Reserve Chair a day earlier, in which he stressed the central bank would keep its focus on price stability but provide less guidance on the path of interest rates.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Among individual stock moves, semiconductor companies outperformed the rest of the market, with Intel's shares jumping more than 10.5% to a record high. President Donald Trump said Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips in the U.S. </p><p>Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX shed 3.5%, falling for a second straight day. The stock had rallied sharply earlier in the week following last Friday's blockbuster market debut.</p><p>And shares of Kroger tumbled almost 8.5% after the grocer reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and kept its annual forecasts unchanged.</p><p>The U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday.</p></body>
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U.S. stocks rose in early Thursday trading, rebounding from the previous session’s Fed-driven selloff as falling oil prices and optimism surrounding the Iran peace deal boosted investor sentiment.
Oil prices continued tumbling on Thursday after President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The deal starts a 60-day negotiation period centered on Iran's nuclear program. It requires the U.S. to lift its blockade of Iran's ports, free up frozen Iranian funds, waive sanctions of Iranian oil sales and prevail upon Israel to cease military operations in Lebanon.
June 18 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major indexes advanced on Thursday with technology shares leading gains as optimism about a Middle East peace deal offset worries about a hawkish Federal Reserve
Futures markets pointed higher ahead of the open, with S&P 500 E-mini contracts up 0.72% and Nasdaq 100 E-mini futures rising 1.36%, according to Reuters, as investors partly unwound Wednesday's sharp selloff. The S&P 500 lost 1.21% on Wednesday to close at 7,420.10 and the Nasdaq fell 1.34% to 26,021.66 after the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.75% but nine officials projected at least one hike by year-end, stripping away prior language that had flagged likely cuts. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
US stocks are set to rebound on Thursday after Wall Street suffered a sharp sell-off following the first meeting of a new Federal Reserve regime, with investors taking comfort from signs of a de-escalation in the Middle East. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 have risen 1.3%, while the S&P 500...
Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 1.6% Thursday as traders looked past the Fed's hawkish signals and oil prices fell on the peace pact
(Corrects days of the week throughout the text) June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rebounded on Thursday after the previous session's selloff as optimism about a Middle East peace deal
Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment has improved to ‘bullish’ on SPY and QQQ from ‘bearish’ earlier in the week.
7.58am: Fed shock but Iran deal signed News overnight that US and Iranian leaders signed an MoU to end the war has helped lower oil prices, but a portentous debut of the US Federal Reserve's new chair seems still likely to weigh on markets today. Kevin Warsh’s first appearance as Fed...
Warsh's first Fed day is the worst for a new chair since 1994. Trump wanted cuts. He got a rate hike threat.
The risk/reward ratio on stocks doesn't look as good as it used to.
The U.S. and Iran electronically signed a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday, extending their ceasefire and establishing a framework for a peace agreement.
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Stocks tumbled on Wednesday after Kevin Warsh’s first press conference as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh said he wasn’t concerned with the market’s reaction to his debut, which is for the best, given the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 1% while the S&P 500 fell 1.2% and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.3%. Interest rate increases are one of Wall Street’s concerns, and those seem to be on the table, potentially as soon as this fall, opines Capital Economics’ Chief North America Economist Stephen Brown.
Wall Street eyed the odds of Hormuz reopening after the interim US-Iran peace deal went into effect, and weighed signs the Fed is starting to lean toward a rate hike.
Wall Street eyed the odds of Hormuz reopening after the interim US-Iran peace deal went into effect, and weighed signs the Fed is starting to lean toward a rate hike.
Wall Street eyed the odds of Hormuz reopening after the interim US-Iran peace deal went into effect, and weighed signs the Fed is starting to lean toward a rate hike.
Wall Street eyed the odds of Hormuz reopening after the interim US-Iran peace deal went into effect, and weighed signs the Fed is starting to lean toward a rate hike.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended lower on Wednesday, as the Dow dropped about 1%, the S&P 500 shed 1.2% and the Nasdaq slid about one-and-a-third percent. </p><p>Kevin Warsh held his first press conference as Federal Reserve Chair on Wednesday after the central bank wrapped its June policy meeting. The Fed left interest rates unchanged, as expected, but new projections showed nine central bank officials expect at least one rate hike by the end of 2026. </p><p>Warsh himself did not submit an interest-rate-path projection, noting that the central bank would scale back on offering forward guidance. </p><p>Brian Mulberry is chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management.</p><p>"The market's just kind of digesting, I think, a lot of this right now, as we all probably need to sleep a couple of nights on this and figure out what's going to happen next. But I think what you're going to find out is that the Fed is just going to come back to providing stable monetary policy over a long period of time and stop trying to forecast so much what's going to happen month to month, meeting to meeting, and where interest rates should go is simply down to around 2.5 or 3.5%, stay there, so that inflation can be about 2 to 2.5% over a long period of time."</p><p>::Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, oil prices edged back up on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said the agreement with Tehran on the Iran war was not final and that the conflict could resume if he is unsatisfied.</p><p>Among individual stock moves, CME Group slipped about 3.5% after the exchange operator said its CEO will step down on March 1 and transition to the role of executive chairman.</p><p>And shares of Allbirds soared 39% after the footwear maker-turned-AI company changed its name to Smartbird and appointed former Amazon executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO.</p></body>
Stocks suffered broad, sharp losses on rate hike bets after the first Warsh Fed meeting. SpaceX fell for the first time while Robinhood jumped.
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