A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75% and delivered a dot plot pointing toward a potential hike. Packaged food companies are held precisely because of their bond-like qualities: predictable earnings and steady dividends in uncertain markets.
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Shares of packaged snacks company Mondelez (NASDAQ:MDLZ) fell 3% in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75% and delivered a dot plot pointing toward a potential hike.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75%, unchanged since the central bank cut by three-quarters of a point in late 2025, and then delivered a dot plot that told investors the easing cycle underpinning the sector's re-rating might be over.
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.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve voted unanimously to hold its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75%, where it has been anchored since the central bank eased by three-quarters of a point in late 2025, while its dot plot pointed toward a potential hike, not a cut.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75%, unchanged since late 2025's rate cuts, while its dot plot raised the median year-end rate estimate from 3.4% to 3.8%, signaling the easing cycle that had been lifting high-multiple valuations could go into reverse.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75% and delivered a dot plot pointing toward a potential hike.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75% and revised its dot plot in a direction that few in the retail sector wanted to see: the median year-end rate estimate moved from 3.4% to 3.8%, suggesting the rate cuts delivered in late 2025 may not only not be extended, they may be partially reversed.
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A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75%, where it sat since the central bank cut by three-quarters of a point in late 2025, while its dot plot signaled the easing cycle might reverse.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75%, where it sat since the central bank cut by three-quarters of a point in late 2025, while its dot plot signaled the easing cycle might reverse.

<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>
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