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Stock futures held onto gains after equities’ best day since July, with the major indexes looking to shake off earlier volatility and end the week on a high note. The S&P 500 paced toward a weekly gain of 0.4% as of Thursday’s close.  Equity investors have managed to look past concerns over China Evergrande’s debt crisis, uncertainty over monetary and fiscal policy and ongoing debates in Washington over the debt ceiling to trade higher.  Cyclical stocks including the industrials, energy and… Source link

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 Thursday, August 12, 2021 But other signs emerge of inflation sticking around In a July press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was asked to define this summer’s biggest buzzword in markets: transitory.  “The concept of transitory is really this: It is that the increases will happen,” Powell said. “We’re not saying they will reverse…. Source link

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer price increases slowed in July but inflation overall remained historically high amid continued supply-chain disruptions and stronger demand for travel-related services as economic activity rebounded.    The consumer price index increased 0.5% last month after climbing 0.9% in June, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.    In the 12 months through July, the CPI advanced 5.4%. Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI rose… Source link

A better-than-expected jobs report for July shows the economy may soon be ready to run with reduced support from the Federal Reserve. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday morning showed 943,000 non-farm payroll gains last month, with the unemployment rate falling to 5.4%. The economy continues to inch closer to pre-pandemic shape. In the depths of the economic shutdown, employment levels dropped by as much as 22.4 million. As of July 2021, the economy appeared to… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly lower Thursday evening ahead of a key labor market report, which is set to offer a fuller picture of the labor market’s recovery and help inform the next moves for monetary policymakers.  Contracts on the S&P 500 were flat to down slightly as the overnight session kicked off. The blue-chip index closed at a record high on Thursday, shaking off declines from a day earlier. The Dow and Nasdaq also ended in positive territory.  For investors, all eyes on Friday… Source link

U.S. employers added back fewer jobs than expected in July, with the tepid return of workers capping overall economic growth as the economy struggles to fully emerge from the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Private payrolls increased by 330,000 in July, ADP said in its closely watched monthly report on Wednesday. Consensus economists were looking for a rise of 690,000, according to Bloomberg data. In June, the economy added back 680,000 private payrolls, with this figure revised down from… Source link

BEIJING, China, Aug. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Li Auto Inc. (“Li Auto” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LI), an innovator in China’s new energy vehicle market, today announced that the Company delivered 8,589 Li ONEs in July 2021, crossing the 8,000-vehicle milestone for the first time while hitting a new record. The deliveries were up 11.4% month over month and 251.3% year over year, a remarkable rate of growth. As of July 31, 2021, total deliveries in 2021 reached 38,743, bringing… Source link

Yandex N.V. (YNDX Quick QuoteYNDX – Free Report) reported second-quarter 2021 adjusted earnings of 4 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 89.7%. Further, the figure declined 50% sequentially and 55.6% year over year. Revenues were $1.12 billion. In ruble terms, the figure totaled RUB 81.4 billion, up 70% on a year-over-year basis and 11.4% from the previous quarter. The reported revenue figure includes the consolidated financial results of… Source link

By Evan Sully (Reuters) -U.S. homebuilder confidence in the market for single family homes fell in July to its lowest level since August 2020, driven by shortages in both supply and labor. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index declined to a reading of 80 this month from 81 in June. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the index to advance marginally to a reading of at 82. A reading above 50 means more builders view market conditions as favorable than poor. The index hit an all-time… Source link

Yandex N.V.’s (YNDX Quick QuoteYNDX – Free Report) division Yandex Self-Driving Group is leaving no stone unturned to strengthen presence in the autonomous vehicle space through partnerships and product expansion. This is evident from Self-Driving Group’s latest collaboration with Just Eat Takeaway.com’s (GRUB Quick QuoteGRUB – Free Report) Grubhub for quicker and low-cost food deliveries on college campuses in the United States via its autonomous… Source link