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May 3, 2022

Stocks rise, tech shares rebound as traders look ahead to Fed, earnings

U.S. stocks turned higher in the first session of May following one of the worst monthly performances for the S&P 500 since the depths of the pandemic in 2020.

The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq turned positive in the final hour of trading on Monday. U.S. crude oil prices reversed earlier declines to hover above $105 per barrel, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose to 3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, or its highest level since December 2018.

Investors this week are bracing for more potentially market-moving events to take place following April’s volatile stretch of trading. The S&P 500 sank by 8.8{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in April for its worst monthly performance since March 2020. Tech stocks especially were battered, and the Nasdaq Composite slid by 13{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} last month for its worst since October 2008.

The Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy-setting meeting will be especially closely watched in the days ahead, with the central bank poised to release its latest policy statement and hold a press conference with Fed Chair Jerome Powell Wednesday afternoon. Market participants expect the Fed will raise rates by 50 basis points at the end of this meeting, marking the first rate hike of that magnitude since 2000. This would follow the 25 basis-point rate hike the Fed carried out in March, bringing the target range for the federal funds rate to between 0.25{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} and 0.50{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} and raising the low end of the range above zero for the first time since March 2020.

The Fed is also expected to formally announce that it will begin quantitative tightening, or rolling assets off of its $9 trillion balance sheet. The central bank had scooped up assets and added to its balance sheet over the course of the pandemic as another means of helping support the virus-stricken economy. However, expectations for the undoing of this build have stirred up volatility after markets became accustomed to these easy money policies.

And with U.S. GDP growth turning negative for the first time since mid-2020 in the first quarter of this year, some pundits have begun to question whether the Fed will be able to tighten monetary policies without setting off a deeper downturn in economic activity.

“Recession risk has risen, and the financial health of the private sector may ultimately determine whether policy tightening will tilt the economy into a downturn,” Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a note Sunday. “Financial fragility in the private sector has historically amplified the impact of the headwinds confronting today’s expansion: higher interest rates, rapid wage inflation, and slowing growth.”

Meanwhile, earnings season will also press on this week, with a number of closely watched companies from Airbnb (ABNB) to Uber (UBER) and Lyft (LYFT) and Block Inc. (SQ) each reporting results. Heading into this week, 55{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} of S&P 500 components had reported actual first-quarter results, and of these, 80{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} topped earnings per share estimates, while 72{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} exceeded revenue expectations, according to data from FactSet.

The expected earnings growth rate for S&P 500 companies in aggregate has also now risen to 7.1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, up from the 4.7{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} seen at the end of March, FactSet noted. Still, if 7.1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} remains the actual earnings growth rate for the index in the first quarter, it would mark the slowest rate since the fourth quarter of 2020.

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4:04 p.m. ET: Stocks rise into the close as tech shares rebound: Nasdaq gains 1.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, S&P 500 adds 0.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

Here were the main moves in markets as of 4:04 p.m. ET:

S&P 500 (^GSPC): +23.47 (+0.57{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,155.40
Dow (^DJI): +84.29 (+0.26{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 33,061.50
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +201.38 (+1.63{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 12,536.02
Crude (CL=F): +$0.90 (+0.86{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $105.59 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$49.00 (-2.56{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,862.70 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +10.9 bps to yield 2.9960{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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11:12 a.m. ET: U.S. manufacturing sector expansion unexpectedly slows in April to 20-month low: ISM

The U.S. manufacturing sector expansion unexpectedly slowed during the month of April, with ongoing supply chain and pricing pressures dragging on goods-producing firms’ output.

The Institution for Supply Management’s April manufacturing index dipped to a 20-month low of 55.4 from March’s 57.1. Consensus economists were looking for a reading of 57.6, according to Bloomberg data. Readings above the neutral level of 50.0 indicate expansion in a sector.

The decline “is mostly due to weakening demand amid a broader slowdown in global manufacturing, rather than a renewed supply crunch,” Michael Pearce, Capital Economics senior U.S. economist, wrote in a note. “Most of the weakness in the ISM appears to reflect softening demand, particularly from the rest of the world, rather than a renewed intensification of supply constraints.”

Beneath the headline index, employment saw one of the most marked drops, with the ISM manufacturing employment subindex declining to 50.9 in April from 56.3 in March. More encouragingly, however, the prices paid subindex declined to 84.6, indicating some moderating of inflationary pressures for manufacturers, even as the level remained high by historical standards.

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9:32 a.m. ET: Stocks open mixed

Here were the main moves in markets as of 9:32 a.m. ET:

S&P 500 (^GSPC): +3.80 (+0.09{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,135.73
Dow (^DJI): +80.64 (+0.24{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 33,057.85
Nasdaq (^IXIC): -6.49 (-0.05{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 12,328.15
Crude (CL=F): -$2.96 (-2.83{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $101.73 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$48.30 (-2.53{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,863.40 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +7.2 bps to yield 2.9590{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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7:43 a.m. ET Monday: Stock futures head for a higher open

Here’s where markets were trading Monday morning ahead of the opening bell:

S&P 500 futures (ES=F): +7.5 points (+0.18{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,135.00
Dow futures (YM=F): +89 points (+0.27{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 32,971.00
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): +27.75 points (+0.22{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 12,879.75
Crude (CL=F): -$2.95 (-2.82{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $101.74 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$32.40 (-1.69{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,879.30 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +3.5 bps to yield 2.92{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 28: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 28, 2022 in New York City. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up in morning trading as markets continued to move through a period of volatility over inflation concerns and the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) — NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 28: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 28, 2022 in New York City. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up in morning trading as markets continued to move through a period of volatility over inflation concerns and the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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April 20, 2022

Stocks rebound to close higher as investors weigh flurry of earnings reports

U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday, clawing back from a rough start to the week as investors assessed a deluge of earnings reports for clues on how corporate America has fared against a backdrop of war in Eastern Europe and rising inflationary pressures.

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The S&P 500 advanced 1.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to mark its best day in a month, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the session out 500 points higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite extended gains to 2.2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} after settling at a one-month low on Monday along with the S&P 500.

Meanwhile, Treasury yields continued their climb, with the 10-year U.S. benchmark hitting 3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} for the first time in three years.

“The bond market, you could argue, is way out ahead of the Fed in a way the stock market is playing wait-and-see,” Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist Steve Sosnick told Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday. “Maybe the stock market is actually, in this case, saying ‘I’m not going to fight the Fed,’ and the bond market in fact is.”

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday that the global economic recovery will “slow significantly” this year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. IMF officials downgraded their forecasts for economic growth, projecting global GDP will rise 3.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in 2022 (a downgrade from January’s projection of 4.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) and another 3.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in 2023 (also a downgrade from the last projection of 3.8{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}).

“This crisis unfolds while the global economy was on a mending path but had not yet fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said IMF Economic Counsellor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas.

Quarterly results from 69 companies in the S&P 500 are in the queue for investors to digest through Friday. Big names on the docket of earnings set for release this week include United Airlines (UAL), American Express (AXP) and Tesla (TSLA).

Netflix (NFLX) — the first tech giant to report earnings this week — revealed an unexpected drop in net subscribers, a closely-watched metric for investors, in its results out Tuesday after the bell. The subscriber losses, the first for the company in over a decade, came as Netflix navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.

Netflix shares cratered nearly 22{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in post-market trading to $272.40 a piece as of 4:11 p.m. ET.

As of Monday (the latest available data), 53{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} of 34 S&P 500 companies (comprising 10{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} of index earnings) that have reported so far beat on both sales and earnings per share, Bank of America’s research team pointed out, slightly better than the typical Week 1 beat rate of 47{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} and last quarter’s Week 1 rate of 50{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}. The institution expects a first quarter EPS beat of 4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} but anticipates downside risks to the full year 2022 estimates, which imply earnings accelerating every quarter into next year.

“Pressure on profit margins from higher costs for virtually everything, notably labor, materials, and transportation, made this quarter difficult to navigate,” LPL Financial strategists Jeff Buchbinder and Ryan Detrick said in commentary Monday. “Add spillover from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and intermittent COVID-19 lockdowns in China, and companies’ bottom lines are getting hit from several directions.”

“Despite the tough environment, we believe the odds favor companies beating estimates as they have done historically on the back of double-digit revenue growth,” Buchbinder and Detrick added. “High inflation translates into more revenue so earnings can grow at a solid pace even with some narrowing of profit margins.”

Contrary to BofA, research from FactSet suggests that although analysts have tempered their expectations on first quarter earnings, lowering bottom-up EPS forecasts in aggregate for Q1 by 0.7{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} from $52.21 to $51.83, EPS forecasts for the second, third, and fourth quarters are higher. Earnings estimates for all of 2022 have also risen 2.2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} this year to $228.50 per share.

“The number one takeaway for investors should be to watch how your stock reacts more than the news,” Heritage Capital President Paul Schatz told Yahoo Finance Live. “If your stock rallies on bad news, that’s a pretty good sign the markets have absorbed and digested and have priced in the bad news.”

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4:12 p.m. ET: Netflix reports subscriber loss for first time in more than 10 years

Streaming giant Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected drop in first-quarter net subscribers, a closely-watched metric for investors. The subscriber losses — the first for the company in over a decade — came as Netflix navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.

Netflix shares cratered nearly 22{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in post-market trading to $272.40 a piece as of 4:11 p.m. ET.

The drop in new users came as a surprise to Wall Street, with analysts looking for a slowdown but still positive growth in subscriptions during the fiscal first quarter. Subscribers grew by nearly 4 million in the same quarter last year. And in total, Netflix had more than 220 million global subscribers as of the end of last quarter.

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4:00 p.m. ET: S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq gain as earnings season ramps up

Here’s how the major indexes capped the trading session following an up day on Wall Street:

S&P 500 (^GSPC): +70.79 (+1.61{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,462.48
Dow (^DJI): +501.19 (+1.46{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 34,912.88
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +287.30 (+2.15{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 13,619.66
Crude (CL=F): -$5.53 (-5.11{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $102.68 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$36.60 (-1.84{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,949.80 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +5.1 bps to yield 2.9130{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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3:16 p.m. ET: Johnson & Johnson rescinds vax sales forecast amid lower demand

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) dialed back its forecast for COVID-19 vaccine sales due to a glut of supply over hesitancy in low income countries.

The company previously projected sales of up to $3.5 billion on the single-dose shot in 2022, but demand has waned.

Use of the shot has been weak in high-income countries, hurt by reports of rare, potentially deadly blood clots, production issues, including an accidental mix-up of ingredients by a contract manufacturer, and concerns about efficacy.

Shares of Johnson & Johnson were up 3.3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to $183.45 a piece as of 3:15 p.m. ET.

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1:49 p.m. ET: All three major indexes advance more than 1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} with earnings underway

Here were the main moves in markets during intraday trading:

S&P 500 (^GSPC): +51.23 (+1.17{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,442.92
Dow (^DJI): +368.87 (+1.07{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 34,780.56
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +220.18 (+1.65{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 13,552.54
Crude (CL=F): -$5.14 (-4.75{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $103.07 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$28.70 (-1.44{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,957.70 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +4.1 bps to yield 2.9030{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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11:16 a.m. ET: Investors await earnings report from Netflix after the bell

Netflix (NFLX) is set to report quarterly after market close. Investors are bracing for a further growth slowdown amid the company’s exit from Russia and as its key North American market grows increasingly saturated.

Wall Street expects Netflix will report revenue of $7.95 billion for the fiscal first quarter, earnings per share of $2.91, and net subscriber additions of 2.51 million.

If realized, new subscribers of 2.51 million would represent the smallest quarterly addition for Netflix since the second quarter of 2021. Subscribers grew by nearly 4 million in the same quarter last year, and in total, Netflix had more than 220 million global subscribers as of the end of last quarter.

Netflix has been grappling with slowing user growth for much of the past year, with new users slowing to a trickle after a pandemic-fueled surge in sign-ups. But further exacerbating this slowdown will be Netflix’s exit from Russia in early March, which came following the country’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Cowen analyst John Blackledge estimated Russia comprised about 1 million subscribers for Netflix.

Shares of Netflix were up 3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} during intraday trading to $347.99 per share as of 11:16 a.m. ET.

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9:33 a.m. ET: Stocks flat as investors digest earnings, downgraded IMF forecast

Here’s where the main indexes were trading during Tuesday’s opening bell:

S&P 500 (^GSPC): +3.54 (+0.08{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,395.23
Dow (^DJI): +92.77 (+0.27{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 34,504.46
Nasdaq (^IXIC): -18.72 (-0.14{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 13,332.36
Crude (CL=F): -$3.38 (-3.12{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $104.83 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$22.50 (-1.13{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,963.90 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +4.3 bps to yield 2.9050{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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9:08 a.m. ET: IMF says Russia-Ukraine war will cause global economy to ‘slow significantly’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the global economic recovery will “slow significantly” this year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The IMF downgraded growth prospects in Eastern European countries but also warned that countries around the world will be affected by the disruption to commodities markets as a result of the war. The international body now expects global GDP, a measure of economic growth, to rise 3.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in 2022 (a downgrade from January’s projection of 4.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) and another 3.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in 2023 (also a downgrade from the last projection of 3.8{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}).

“This crisis unfolds while the global economy was on a mending path but had not yet fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said IMF Economic Counsellor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas.

Russia saw the largest downgrade in the IMF report, with the country’s economy now expected to contract by 8.5{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} this year (compared to the 2.8{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} growth it had projected prior to the invasion).

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8:58 a.m. ET: Housing starts rise, building permits increase in March

U.S. homebuilding activity picked up unexpectedly last month, but starts for single-family housing fell amid rising mortgage rates.

The Commerce Department reported housing starts registered an increase of 0.3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.793 million units last month. February data was revised higher to a rate of 1.788 million units from the previously reported 1.769 million units. Bloomberg economists had forecast starts slipping to a rate of 1.740 million units.

Permits for future homebuilding increased 0.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to a rate of 1.873 million units last month.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.0{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} during the week ended April 14, the highest since February 2011, up from 4.72{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in the prior week, per mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac. Further increases are expected as the Federal Reserve moves forward on its monetary tightening plans.

“Mortgage rates are flying ever higher, but residential construction of single-family homes started this month are solid and home builders are not heading for the exits yet,” FWDBONDS chief economist Christopher S. Rupkey said in a note. “At some point, housing starts will fall this year as the market is on a collision course for buyers with rising prices and higher costs of borrowing.”

Residential single family homes construction by KB Home are shown under construction in the community of Valley Center, California, U.S. June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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7:10 a.m. ET: Stock futures near breakeven, Treasury yield grazes 2.9{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

Here’s how the main benchmarks fared in pre-market trading Tuesday:

S&P 500 futures (ES=F): -2.75 points (-0.06{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,384.00
Dow futures (YM=F): -2.00 points (-0.01{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 34,311.00
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): -18.25 points (-0.13{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 13,889.50
Crude (CL=F): -$1.59 (-1.47{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $106.62 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$5.00 (-0.25{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,981.40 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +0.00 bps to yield 2.8620{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

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6:13 p.m. ET Monday: Futures jump as earnings season sets into full swing

Here were the main moves in markets heading into overnight futures trading Monday:

S&P 500 futures (ES=F): +14.25 points (+0.32{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 4,401.00
Dow futures (YM=F): +104.00 points (+0.30{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 34,417.00
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): +59.50 points (+0.43{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 13,967.25
Crude (CL=F): -$0.77 (-0.71{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $107.44 a barrel
Gold (GC=F): -$4.90 (-0.25{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to $1,981.50 per ounce
10-year Treasury (^TNX): +3.4 bps to yield 2.8620{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

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January 28, 2022

Stock futures rebound, Apple gains after record sales quarter

Inventory futures opened increased Thursday night as buyers took in earnings results from some key tech firms at the finish of a different risky 7 days.

Contracts on the S&P 500 received. Dow futures also highly developed, as part inventory Apple (AAPL) jumped in late investing after the Apple iphone-maker documented document quarterly revenue and superior-than-predicted profits inspite of supply chain issues. Meanwhile, Robinhood (HOOD) shares sank soon after the trading system missed on quarterly revenue, posted a much larger-than-expected quarterly drop in end users, and made available disappointing steering.

The S&P 500 was on monitor to put up a weekly decline of about 1.3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, centered on Thursday’s closing selling prices. New reports showing a greater-than-expected rise in fourth-quarter U.S. GDP and enhancement in weekly jobless promises did very little to assistance switch shares all around throughout Thursday’s session. The Dow and Nasdaq have every also fallen more than the training course of the earlier week, with volatility climbing as traders regarded as the implications of the Federal Reserve’s much more hawkish monetary policy tilt for marketplaces.

“The markets digested this hawkish Fed pivot that I assume astonished folks in terms of its magnitude,” Scott Crowe, CenterSquare Financial investment Management chief financial investment strategist, informed Yahoo Finance Dwell on Thursday. “It wasn’t so extensive ago that they had been describing inflation as ‘transitory,’ but now they have their sights firmly established on moderating inflation. And I consider that is given the marketplace a good deal of indigestion as it begins to digest that rather dramatic change.”

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell strongly signaled earlier this 7 days that a March liftoff on curiosity rates to earlier mentioned their existing close to-zero levels was in the cards. Even so, other issues remained — specifically all around just how immediately the Fed will raise fascination fees, and all over when and how rapidly the Fed will get started drawing down its approximately $9 trillion balance sheet and tightening money circumstances.

“All the things the Fed is accomplishing at this point we feel has just been priced in in excess of the final couple months. And that’s where by a great deal of the slide in the market place has appear from,” Morgan Stanley Controlling Director Kathy Entwistle told Yahoo Finance Stay on Thursday. “And the big query is, will we slide a minor little bit much more? What’s occurring?”

“We’re seeking at corporations and their earnings … to figure out whether or not or not we’re heading to have a very little little bit additional of a pullback in the sector or not,” she additional. “And that’s primarily based on what they can do heading forward, the place their possibilities are. And we’ve been listening to a ton about inflation. If you assume about a 7{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} inflation price, that’s really sizeable.”

“Back again in the slide, it was the retail trader that was keeping up the sector,” Entwistle explained. “And now, their sentiments have form of turned and they are no for a longer time optimistic about exactly where we are right now. So I consider we have to think about all of these things. We do imagine that the high quality, yet again, is going to do far better than growth.”

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6:15 p.m. ET Thursday: Inventory futures bounce after Apple earnings

Here’s exactly where futures started investing Thursday night:

S&P 500 futures (ES=F): +30 points (+.69{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}), to 4,347.75
Dow futures (YM=F): +169 factors (+.5{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}), to 34,212.00
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): +169 factors (+1.21{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 14,155.75

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January 12, 2022

Stock futures drift slightly higher after tech rebound

Stock futures opened marginally bigger Tuesday night adhering to a recovery rally for the duration of the typical investing working day, with marketplaces at least temporarily finding reduction in assurances from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that the central bank would phase in as necessary to rein in inflation.

Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Nasdaq futures also enhanced soon after the Nasdaq Composite shut increased by 1.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} on Tuesday in its finest working day in 3 months, as technologies stocks rebounded from the latest declines.

Powell’s re-nomination hearing right before the Senate Banking Committee was a essential concentration for investors on Tuesday, with the central lender leader reiterating that the Fed would use its policy instruments to provide down stubbornly elevated price ranges.

“If we see inflation persisting at large amounts, more time than expected, if we have to increase curiosity rates more over time, then we will,” Powell stated during the hearing.

The central bank beforehand telegraphed it was eyeing three curiosity-amount hikes this 12 months to bring benchmark prices up from their latest around-zero concentrations. However, some top Wall Road firms have predicted the Fed will elevate charges four occasions offered the inflationary backdrop.

And the most recent inflation experiences are expected to continue coming in incredibly hot. The Bureau of Labor Studies is set to release the December U.S. Customer Rate Index (CPI) Wednesday early morning, which is anticipated to display selling prices jumped 7.{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} in the course of the very same thirty day period past year in the largest soar because 1982.

But although Powell doubled down on the Fed’s intention of curbing inflation and using curiosity price hikes as a device to attain this, he discovered little further about the Fed’s plan to start out shrinking its approximately $9 trillion stability sheet. The Fed’s December assembly minutes final week proposed central lender officials were commencing to discuss drawing down the Fed’s stability sheet after virtually two several years of asset buys to support support marketplaces for the duration of the pandemic. Powell reiterated in his hearing he expected the balance sheet runoff approach would start this yr.

“I assume the biggest remark on most investors’ minds that we discuss to all-around the entire world would be a ‘policy mistake’ that the Fed may be way too intense,” Brian Belski, BMO Funds Markets main expense strategist, told Yahoo Finance Dwell on Tuesday. “Mr. Powell fundamentally arrived out today and mentioned this is heading to be a method … with respect to how very long this is heading to get, and I imagine that is what’s calming investors.”

Although potential clients of increased borrowing prices and tighter economical situations have stirred up volatility in U.S. equities and tech shares primarily in latest session, Tuesday’s session saw a reversal, with the tech-hefty Nasdaq Composite sharply outperforming.

“The problem with tech, I would argue, is not so substantially just one of a minor additional period publicity because advancement is further more away, but it truly is simply just one of valuation,” Simeon Hyman, ProShares Global Investment Strategist, advised Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday. “And certainly those people top-major, most significant-cap tech stocks perhaps just had been a tiny little bit highly-priced going into the close of past year and the commencing of 2022. But will not absolutely rule out great development tales mainly because that is the greatest defense versus inflation. It is the growth of earnings and dividends.”

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6:09 p.m. ET Tuesday: Stock futures open marginally bigger

Here is exactly where markets ended up trading Tuesday night:

S&P 500 futures (ES=F): +.5 points (+.01{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}), to 4,705.50
Dow futures (YM=F): +2 points (+.01{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}), to 36,130.00
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): +3.5 details (+.02{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}) to 15,834.50

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October 6, 2021

Stocks Rebound, Treasuries Fall Ahead of Jobs Data: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Shares rebounded from Monday’s rout and Treasuries fell as traders assessed the point out of the economy prior to a essential payroll report Friday.

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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 acquired — led by innovations in mega-cap tech names — although the 10-year yield spiked to 1.53{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}. Traders are anxiously awaiting the newest labor industry knowledge for a signal on the Federal Reserve’s subsequent go. An ISM looking at on the U.S. solutions sector exercise came in superior than predicted Tuesday, very likely trying to keep the Fed on keep track of to announce a pullback in bond-buying.

The advancements served ease issues of a market correction as the S&P 500 rose again higher than its 100-day transferring typical. A wall of stress has been creating amid elevated inflation, fading restoration indicators, a spreading electrical power crisis, and U.S. political bickering. The Nasdaq 100’s acquire came following a evaluate of its relative toughness fell to the cheapest considering the fact that March.

“While some components of the stock market have declined more than other folks, we nevertheless have a means to go just before achieving an true correction in the key inventory indexes,” explained David Bahnsen, chief investment officer at Newport Seaside, California-centered prosperity management agency The Bahnsen Group. “It is not possible to get overly worried about these incredibly modest sector declines, which are typically concentrated in very overpriced know-how shares.”

The S&P 500 facts engineering sector is down about 6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} from a superior in August as mounting inflation and Treasury yields have prompted a rotation out of substantial-development corporations buying and selling at a high quality. In the meantime, the electrical power sector is up 17{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} from a low in September as Europe braces for a winter season electricity crunch. European pure gasoline contracts soared on Tuesday to an unparalleled 114 euros per megawatt-hour, in comparison with 15.49 euros in February. Crude oil in New York also received for a fourth working day.

“I feel we’re going to most likely proceed this sample of rather immediate sector shifts,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief financial investment strategist at Charles Schwab. “You’ve obtained these rotational corrections that have been taking place underneath the surface area, and sure, the deterioration has been far more major not long ago in the Nasdaq, but all through the course of this yr, you’ve viewed different durations wherever breadth deterioration was far more serious in regions like the Nasdaq or tiny cap.”

The newest Fed commentary forward of the U.S. nonfarm-payrolls knowledge came on Monday from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard who mentioned elevated rate pressures could be changing the mentality of corporations and customers by generating them additional accustomed to larger inflation.

“The nonfarm payrolls report will be launched on Friday and will give us a feeling of how the Delta variant has impacted the work natural environment,”said Lauren Goodwin, economist and portfolio strategist at New York Existence Investments. “We don’t assume the report to have a significant current market affect Covid-19 instances are also on the drop once more, and Federal Reserve conversation factors to decreasing their current market guidance as extensive as the report is ‘decent.’”

The greenback rose, rebounding from a 3-working day selloff. Bitcoin extended a rally, surpassing the $50,000 mark. And equities in Europe and Hong Kong rose, when individuals in Japan fell.

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Below are some functions to watch this 7 days:

Amount final decision in New Zealand on Wednesday
Reserve Lender of India financial policy selection on Friday
The U.S. Labor Department releases unemployment and work generation data Friday

Some of the primary moves in marketplaces:

Stocks

The S&P 500 rose 1.1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} as of 4:01 p.m. New York time
The Nasdaq 100 rose 1.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose .9{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}
The MSCI Globe index rose .7{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

Currencies

The Bloomberg Greenback Location Index rose .2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}
The euro fell .2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to $1.1599
The British pound rose .1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to $1.3625
The Japanese yen fell .5{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to 111.46 per dollar

Bonds

The yield on 10-yr Treasuries sophisticated five foundation points to 1.53{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}
Germany’s 10-yr generate state-of-the-art 3 basis details to -.19{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}
Britain’s 10-yr generate state-of-the-art seven basis factors to 1.08{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}

Commodities

West Texas Intermediate crude rose 2.1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to $79.22 a barrel
Gold futures fell .4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} to $1,761.10 an ounce

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October 4, 2021

Stocks Rebound but Still Close Out Worst Week Since Winter | Business News

By STAN CHOE, AP Business Author

Wall Avenue rebounded on Friday, led by organizations that would profit most from a healthier economic climate, but not by more than enough to keep the stock sector from its worst 7 days considering the fact that the winter.

The S&P 500 rose 49.50, or 1.1{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, to 4,357.04 pursuing yet another choppy day of buying and selling. It swung among a decline of .4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} and a achieve of 1.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} by the working day.

The Dow Jones Industrial Typical climbed 482.54 points, or 1.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, to 34,326.46, and the Nasdaq composite gained 118.12, or .8{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, to 14,566.70.

Merck assisted pace the current market and leaped 8.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} immediately after it claimed its experimental tablet to treat COVID-19 slice hospitalizations and fatalities by fifty percent. Potential clients for an more resource to tame the pandemic served raise shares of airways, motels and firms hurt by constraints on vacation and other routines.

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United Airways soared 7.9{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, on line casino owner Caesars Entertainment swept 6.4{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} larger and Reside Nation Amusement jumped 8.3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}.

Vitality producers, fiscal firms and other organizations whose profits are usually carefully tied to the economy’s power were also helping to guide the way.

The market’s common gains weren’t adequate to make up for a dismal final several days. The S&P 500 however dropped to a weekly decline of 2.2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, its worst given that February. A swift rise in fascination costs earlier this 7 days rattled the market place and pressured a reassessment of no matter whether stocks experienced developed much too expensive, especially the most popular types.

On Friday, the generate on the 10-calendar year Treasury fell back to 1.46{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} from 1.52{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} late Thursday. Which is continue to perfectly above its perch of 1.32{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} from a 7 days and a half in the past.

September was also the worst month for the S&P 500 because March 2020, when marketplaces plunged as COVID-19 shutdowns took keep. Between the worries that have weighed on the market: The Federal Reserve is close to allowing off the accelerator on its assistance for marketplaces, financial data has not too long ago been combined pursuing an upturn in COVID-19 infections, corporate tax rates may possibly be established to rise and political turmoil carries on in Washington.

There’s also large inflation however enveloping the entire world. Oil charges rose around 2{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a} this 7 days, approaching a seven-calendar year higher, while purely natural fuel price ranges had been up about 7{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}.

The Federal Reserve has stated that it expects superior inflation to be only transitory and that it is really the outcome of an overall economy roaring back again to life from its earlier shutdown. But if it can be wrong, the Fed may have to increase curiosity charges previously or far more aggressively than it truly is telegraphed to marketplaces.

Economic experiences on Friday were combined. The nation’s manufacturing grew a lot quicker than anticipated last month, but an August examining for the Federal Reserve’s most popular evaluate for inflation was a little bit better than forecast. They stick to a disappointing report on Thursday displaying extra individuals submitted for unemployment rewards than expected.

Such info signifies “you hear the word ‘stagflation’ arrive up after in a though, which would be the worst outcome” reported Abundant Weiss, chief investment officer of multi-asset techniques at American Century Investments.

Stagflation is when financial growth stagnates but inflation remains high. Weiss does not assume that to occur, so extended as the pandemic doesn’t bring about much more worldwide shutdowns, but he also is not positioning his investments as if he’s optimistic about major upcoming gains for shares.

“We’re not swinging at the pitch suitable now,” he stated. “We are neutral.”

Weiss claimed the sector would need to have to drop by about a 3rd just before he’d simply call shares attractively valued centered on where curiosity rates are now, all else equal.

Asian stock markets fell before in the working day, inspite of Japan’s lifting of a pandemic state of emergency and a study of massive Japanese suppliers exhibiting sentiment at a practically a few-12 months superior.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index slumped 2.3{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}, and South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.6{1b90e59fe8a6c14b55fbbae1d9373c165823754d058ebf80beecafc6dee5063a}.

European stock indexes also fell.

AP Enterprise Author Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.