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The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in December, more than economists expected, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. Job growth has slowed in recent months against a backdrop of higher interest rates, but the labor market remains tight despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool demand for workers that has placed upward pressure on wages and driven up inflation. December’s report showed wage growth cooled slightly, a sign investors perceived may ease the pressure off of Fed officials to… Source link

U.S. stocks rallied Wednesday as strong earnings from Nike and FedEx, along with upbeat consumer confidence data, lifted sentiment after a recent bout of selling. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) surged 1.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) jumped more than 500 points, or 1.6%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) also advanced 1.5%. An upbeat gauge of consumer confidence helped raise the mood on Wednesday. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index rose to 108.3 this month… Source link

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google has for years struggled to improve its position in the cloud market versus leaders like Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT). An internal estimate by Google, from a leaked Microsoft document and some extrapolation of other market statistics, indicated Google Cloud believes it’s closer to second place than analysts think, CNBC reports. Google estimated that Microsoft generated under $29 billion in Azure… Source link

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U.S. stocks turned higher in volatile trading Tuesday as investors attempted to thwart losses from stretching into a fifth day. A hawkish move by the Bank of Japan to adjust the cap on its 10-year government bond yield rattled markets in early trading, with investors worried aggressive monetary tightening by central banks around the world may cause a global recession. Last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and others raised interest rates. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) inched up… Source link

A growing chorus of Wall Streeters covering Tesla’s stock are becoming more cautious on the name heading into 2023, adding to a brutal month and year. EvercoreISI analyst Chris McNally slashed his price target on Tesla’s stock to $200 from $300 on Tuesday, joining bearish takes in the past week from Goldman Sachs, Wedbush, and Oppenheimer. “While we continue to view Tesla as having a leading EV gross margin advantage from global scale, vertical integration, and US IRA [Inflation Reduction Act]… Source link

A growing chorus of Wall Streeters covering Tesla’s stock are becoming more cautious on the name heading into 2023, adding to a brutal month and year. EvercoreISI analyst Chris McNally slashed his price target on Tesla’s stock to $200 from $300 on Tuesday, joining bearish takes in the past week from Goldman Sachs, Wedbush, and Oppenheimer. “While we continue to view Tesla as having a leading EV gross margin advantage from global scale, vertical integration, and US IRA [Inflation Reduction Act]… Source link

Energy stocks have been this year’s biggest winners in a bleak year for equities. And Wall Street is betting the sector’s outperformance will persist in the new year. Even as the price of oil pulls back from this year’s highs, energy stocks look poised to charge higher thanks to relatively cheap valuations and earnings expectations that appear to be a bright spot in an otherwise grim outlook for S&P 500 earnings estimates. “The bottom line here is that when you think about the earnings of… Source link

Wall Street analysts aren’t expecting S&P 500 companies to blow the doors off with their fourth quarter earnings reports when they begin to trickle out in January. Actually, quite the contrary, as sluggish economic growth, rising interest rates, and stubborn inflation has strategists cautious about the stock market in 2023. Fourth quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are seen dropping 2.8%, according to fresh data from FactSet. If that turns out to be correct, it would mark the first… 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 Friday, December 9, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Wall Street strategists are looking ahead to 2023. And like most years, this year’s outlooks contain a degree of similarity… Source link