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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Stock market news today: US stocks move higher amid revived hopes for Fed rate cut, GDP data  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Stock market news today: US stocks climb amid revived hopes for Fed rate cut  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Stock market news today: US stocks flat in countdown to Fed  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]What if the Fed hadn’t made a ‘mistake’? A hypothetical to consider.  Yahoo Finance Source link

U.S. stocks were higher Wednesday afternoon after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in a press conference on Wednesday signs of disinflation are building in the economy, which investors took as a sign the central bank could be close to ending its rate-hiking campaign. Tech stocks were leading the charge higher on Wednesday following Powell’s comments, with the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rising as much as 2%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) was higher by 1.2% while the Dow Jones… Source link

Billionaire investor David Rubenstein is the latest Wall Street titan raising doubts about the Federal Reserve’s ability to reach its current inflation goals. “I think the Fed will probably target inflation down to about 3%, not 2%,” the founder and co-chairman of private equity giant The Carlyle Group said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday. Rubenstein also had a notably more optimistic tone about the outlook for the economy Source link

DAVOS, Switzerland — Bank of America (BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan is pushing back on the view held by some investors that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates in 2023 to jumpstart a potential recessionary U.S. economy. “They may leave [rates] higher for longer just to make sure they squeeze out that services-side inflation,” Moynihan told Yahoo Finance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday. Moynihan pointed out that his research team is expecting a “mild” recession this year…. Source link

DAVOS, Switzerland — Bank of America (BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan is pushing back on the view held by some investors that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates in 2023 to jumpstart a potential recessionary U.S. economy. “They may leave [rates] higher for longer just to make sure they squeeze out that services-side inflation,” Moynihan told Yahoo Finance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday. Moynihan pointed out that his research team is expecting a “mild” recession this year…. Source link

A version of this article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, January 13, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Alexandra Semenova, markets reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow Alexandra on Twitter @alexandraandnyc. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Inflation slowed for a sixth-straight month in December, data out Thursday showed. This downtrend in price increases… Source link

Inflation pressures eased again in December, giving some Federal Reserve officials more confidence that a continued slowdown in its interest rate increases is warranted. In the final month of 2022, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index showed prices rose 6.5% over last year while falling 0.1% over the prior month. Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said Thursday morning he expects the “eye-popping” inflation readings of 2022 are behind us, and that it makes sense to slow… Source link