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U.S. stock futures inched higher Wednesday morning as Wall Street clawed back from a three-week selloff across equity markets. Futures tied to the S&P 500 index ticked up 0.2%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average added roughly 30 points, or 0.1%. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.3%. “The difficult 2022 for stocks may not get much easier because as we now wait for better news on the inflation front, we have to contend with a seasonally weak month of… Source link

LIVE: Stock Market Coverage – Wednesday September 7 Yahoo Finance – Yahoo Finance Source link

“Fire and ice” isn’t just a show about dragons and zombies on HBO. It’s been Michael J. Wilson’s vision of the stock market throughout 2022. Wilson, the chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley, has argued that stocks are fighting a toxic combination of economic headwinds—which he calls “fire” and “ice”—that are set to keep equity prices subdued until late 2023. The stock market’s summer rally was cut short last month as investors digested a reaffirmation of the… Source link

The S&P 500’s decline this year—it’s down nearly 18% since January—accelerated last week after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated more “pain” was ahead. Has the market hit bottom? Bank of America Research, based on its new list of 10 signals showing whether the stock market has hit bottom, says no. View this interactive chart on Fortune.com The bank came up with the list, released on Friday, after analyzing “macro and bottom-up data encompassing policy, valuation,… Source link

LIVE: Stock Market Coverage – Tuesday August 30 Yahoo Finance – Yahoo Finance Source link

  Stock futures slipped Friday morning as Wall Street awaited a highly-anticipated speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the U.S. central bank’s economic symposium in Jackson Hole. Futures tied to the S&P 500 fell 0.4%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed roughly 100 points, or 0.3%. Nasdaq futures were off by 0.6%. The moves come after all three major averages rallied in the previous session to log gains of more than 1%. Powell is scheduled to deliver remarks… Source link

The U.S. housing market is under pressure. Data this week on new home sales and pending home sales reflected sharp drops from last year and showed the impact higher interest rates continue to have on prospective buyers. On Wednesday, the latest report on pending home sales from the National Association of Realtors showed contracts to buy previously owned homes fell 1% from June to July and 19.9% from July 2021 to July 2022. The Pending Home Sales Index — a measure of signed contracts on… Source link

Stock Market Coverage – Wednesday August 24 Yahoo Finance – Yahoo Finance Source link

Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia Sergey Belov holds the newly designed Russian 100-rouble banknote during a presentation in Moscow, Russia June 30, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) – The Russian rouble firmed slightly on Tuesday after initially easing beyond 60 against the dollar, while shares… Source link

Google is yet again under fire from for its alleged anticompetitive practices in online advertising.  According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice could sue Alphabet, Inc, the search engine’s parent company, for antitrust violations as early as next month.  Google Repeatedly Targeted by Antitrust Allegations In October 2020, the federal department of justice filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant, which currently accounts for an 83.84% of the global market. This suit,… Source link