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This is nightmare fuel for a historically expensive stock market that had already priced in additional rate cuts.
The S&P 500 tumbled 1.2% on Friday, the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 537 points, or 1.1%. The 30-year government bond hit its highest closing yield in nearly 20 years, at 5.127%. President Trump said that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping “feel very similar on Iran” and both want the conflict to end.
Warsh is walking a tightrope as he tries to influence Fed policy.
SpaceX is fine-tuning the details of Wall Street's largest-ever initial public offering (IPO), including its ticker symbol, the exchange on which it'll trade, a pre-IPO stock split, and its targeted debut date.
Anthropic is still private, but the market around it is starting to look very public.
Paring down the central bank's balance sheet, or doing nothing at all, poses potentially dire consequences for the stock market.
Jerome Powell's successor and the Chicago Fed president foresee wildly different interest rate outcomes from the evolution of AI.
Investors step into the week after a Friday in the red, spurred by a stable of geopolitical uncertainties post Trump-Xi summit, rising bond yields, and sticky inflation.
Kevin Warsh is taking the reins at the Federal Reserve.
BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering next month, the Information news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of about $75 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion, potentially making it the biggest-ever stock market flotation. BlackRock declined to comment.
It's incredibly rare when a sitting Fed chair interjects their opinion on stock valuations -- and when this happens, it shouldn't be ignored.
May 15 (Reuters) - A majority of SpaceX shareholders have approved a 5-for-1 stock split recommended by the company's board, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes retreated from AI-fueled record highs on Friday, with the Dow dropping 1%, the S&P 500 shedding one-and-a-quarter percent and the Nasdaq declining more than one-and-a-half percent.</p><p>Stocks moved lower as a jump in benchmark Treasury yields reflected surging energy prices and concerns about long-term inflation.</p><p>Leah Bennett is chief investment strategist at Concurrent Investment Advisors.</p><p>“Equities are trading down today primarily, I think, because people are disappointed not to see any sort of movement between Trump and Xi coming out of the summit regarding the conflict in the Middle East. So, oil is up another 4% today. We obviously saw an impact on the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and the PPI (Producer Price Index). And the longer that oil prices stay up, the longer we're going to have rising inflation. And this is the first time we've really seen the ten-year inflation expectations cross 2.5%. And historically, that's been very consistent with a period where the Fed had to increase interest rates.”</p><p>Friday marks Jerome Powell's last day as U.S. Federal Reserve chair. Incoming Chair Kevin Warsh is saddled with the potential need for a rate hike if a protracted Iran war leads to sticky inflation.</p><p>Among individual stock moves, the AI rally largely stalled, with Nvidia losing nearly 4.5%, AMD shedding more than 5.5% and Intel dropping more than 6%.</p><p>On the flip side, shares of Microsoft rose 3% following the disclosure of a new position in the company taken by Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square.</p><p>And shares of Ford slid about 7.5%, retreating from a near 21% surge over the last two sessions on optimism over the automaker's energy storage business.</p></body>
The S&P 500 tumbled 1.2% on Friday, the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 537 points, or 1.1%. The 30-year government bond hit its highest closing yield in nearly 20 years, at 5.127%. President Trump said that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping “feel very similar on Iran” and both want the conflict to end.
The U.S. stock market fell from its records and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.5% from its own record. The Nasdaq composite fell 410.08 points, or 1.5%, to 26,225.14.
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Bill Ackman announced on social media that his hedge fund Pershing Square will disclose a new position in Microsoft in a 13F filing with regulators today. Microsoft has been an outlier in the tech trade that has carried markets higher this year. "We began building our position in MSFT in February following a meaningful share price decline after the company reported its fiscal Q2 2026 results," Ackman wrote in a post on X. "We were able to establish our position at a valuation of 21 times forward earnings, broadly in line with the market multiple and well below Microsoft's trading average over the last few years."
May 15 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 tumbled more than 1% on Friday, with an AI-driven rally in U.S. stocks poised to stall, as Treasury yields jumped on concerns about
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Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors fretted about soaring Treasury yields and President Donald Trump’s summit with China's leader Xi Jinping concluded without any meaningful breakthrough on trade. “For some time, analysts have been puzzled by equity markets’ resilience in the face of rising bond yields and clear inflationary pressures,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at the foreign-exchange brokerage XTB. “Today we may see the pressure of rising bond yields start to weigh on equities, and futures prices suggest that U.S. indices will pull back from record highs later today and could close the week on a dampener.”
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