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Dow Jones futures: Despite Friday's bounce, the stock market had a tough week amid $100 oil prices and surging Treasury yields. Apple, Moderna are buys.

The Federal Reserve may bump interest rates due to stubbornly high inflation.

Wall Street snapped a four-day losing streak as falling oil prices and strong gains for several tech stocks offset inflation fears and rising rate-hike odds.

Citi US equity strategist Drew Pettit and Wolfe Research chief economist Stephanie Roth join Market Domination to offer their insights into how the market (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) is interpreting the latest economic data and the odds of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates.

Friday’s hotter-than-expected core inflation report has put a Federal Reserve rate hike firmly in play, leaving investors with a more useful question: which stocks could benefit if Chair Kevin Warsh delivers next week? And which might suffer? Polymarket traders put...
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Dow Rallies 500 Points as Oil Prices Slide Despite Rising Fed Rate-Hike Bets

Apple (AAPL) is selling iPhones and Macs faster than it can build them, but the number a holder should fear most is the gross margin underneath those sales. Leaving out tariff refunds, that margin fell in the June quarter and is guided lower again for the September quarter. Management puts both steps down to rising memory prices, while the stock's price-to-earnings multiple sits near the top of its 10-year range.

The Fed is now being forced into a hike that will preserve its credibility. That could be good for stocks and long-term bonds.

The outbreak, which federal health officials linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from supplier Taylor Farms, resulted in a total of 12,883 reported cases of the gastrointestinal food-borne illness across 21 states.

Block filed with the OCC to form Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., a national trust charter aimed at cutting sponsor-bank fees and unifying compliance for Cash App and Square.

Core inflation rose 0.3% in August, slightly more than expected.

Rate-hike odds jumped to 86.7% Friday. The Dow rose 500 points on the same news. Go figure.

The latest consumer price index data showed inflation rose in August, nearly solidifying the odds of an interest-rate hike from the Federal Reserve next week. Yet, stocks are rallying. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.

CPI's biggest fan just decided to sell the stock. Is it time to panic?

A record jump in the price of cellular phone services helped tip a key measure of US inflation above forecasts, likely sealing the deal for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next week.

Elon Musk said Anthropic‘s most extreme AI-growth scenario could become achievable once humanoid robots reach volume production, arguing that artificial intelligence (AI) paired with physical automation could transform the economy beyond knowledge work. Musk Says Robots Could Unlock Extreme Growth...

U.S. stock investors should look to the other side of the world for guidance next week.

The stock market fell as oil prices and Treasury yields soared, but rebounded Friday on the CPI inflation report. Apple, Oracle, Meta were key movers.

JPMorgan Chase analysts expect eight of the world's nine developed-market central banks to lift interest rates before the end of the year in efforts to tame sticky inflation and commodity price pressures. In a research note published Thursday, the analysts said they expect rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and European Central Bank, as well as from central banks in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden. JPMorgan said its base case was for the Fed to hold rates next week and lift them in December.

Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel sees a collision coming between a new Fed chair, a bond market demanding action, and stocks caught in the crossfire at next week's FOMC meeting.

The central bank lifted rates another 25 basis points as the Middle East energy shock keeps inflation elevated, forcing European markets to rethink how high borrowing costs may have to go.
We're now looking at a 200 bps margin on PPI-CPI headlines, 240 bps on core.


