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By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Asian shares reversed course and fell on Friday as investors took some money off the table from record rallies in Japan and South Korea, while signs of an
Progress toward a peace deal with Iran outweighed hawkish undertones from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. Plus, the Knicks’ market impact.
<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>
Netflix remains one of streaming’s strongest businesses, with investors looking for signs that ad growth and cash flow can add more upside beyond future price hikes.
Stocks rose and gasoline prices continued to fall after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim peace agreement to wind down the war, capping a holiday-shortened week on a high note. Brent crude futures, the international oil benchmark, finished the day near flat at $79.85 a barrel, about $7.50 closer than they started the week to the prewar level of about $72.50. The recent drop in oil prices has already translated into relief at the pump for Americans: The average cost of a gallon of gasoline slipped below $4 for the first time in more than two months, according to AAA.
The post-IPO run-up had drawn scrutiny from analysts concerned about whether SpaceX's fundamentals could eventually support its valuation
Oil prices dropped further on Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic."The US and Iran have signed an initial deal to end the war, causing oil prices to fall further," he said.
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
SpaceX stock fell for the first time on Wednesday. The fell 1.3% after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and retail sales numbers showed some discretionary spending weakness. The overall market is probably a secondary factor in SpaceX trading.
(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
President Trump's handpicked successor to Jerome Powell is removing transparency from the central bank -- and that's a big deal for a pricey stock market.
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.
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.
CarMax delivered better-than-expected quarterly results, but the stock still sank.
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.
US stock futures edged up as Wall Street digested the interim peace deal between the US and Iran as well as the latest Federal Reserve decision on interest rates.
<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.
(Updates with index/price moves, FedWatch outlook, macro data, and political/company news from the f
US equity indexes were lower on Wednesday as government bond yields rose and the Federal Reserve ann
U.S. stocks dropped on speculation the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates this year to keep a lid on inflation. The S&P 500 slumped 1.2% Wednesday after the Fed released projections showing nearly half its policymakers foresee at least one increase to its main interest rate this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went from a gain of 0.5% in the morning to a drop of 1%, while the Nasdaq composite sank 1.3%.
US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) ended Wednesday's session in negative territory after Federal Reserve officials unanimously voted to hold interest rates at their June FOMC meeting today, while also forecasting at least one possible rate hike ahead. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre breaks down the trading day's market reactions to the Fed's big decision. This was Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting he presided over as the new chairman of the Fed.
(Updates with index/price moves and macroeconomic news from the first paragraph.) US equity index
Stocks remained lower after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh began his first press conference in the role. The Nasdaq was down 0.5%. Warsh began by saying he was welcomed by fellow bankers, who he says he’s listened closely to for “a lot of new ideas, new thinking, and genuine interest in moving the Fed forward.”
The stock market wavered after the Federal Reserve opted to keep interest rates steady during Kevin Warsh’s first meeting as chairman. The Federal Open Market Committee continued this year’s pause with a target for the federal-funds rate in a range of 3.5% to 3.75%. “Inflation remains elevated relative to the Committee’s 2 percent goal, in part reflecting supply shocks that have driven price increases in certain sectors, including energy,” the FOMC said in its statement.
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