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Asian shares were mostly higher in early Friday trading, as regional market sentiment got a boost from the rally on Wall Street, mostly from big technology stocks. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.6% in morning trading to 64,622.33. Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 2.1% to 25,751.26, while the Shanghai Composite added 0.8% to 3,973.27.
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MARKETS MAIN Bond-market turmoil and war are top of mind for investors today. Treasury yields reversed earlier gains, after a Fed official suggested that a rate hike isn’t certain this month. U.S. stocks are advancing, led by the Dow industrials.
Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Wednesday as investors contended with a global bond selloff, elevated energy prices and growing expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates later this month, putting pressure on rate-sensitive technology stocks.
The Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 fell below their 50-day lines as oil prices jumped. Dell, Palo Alto and Credo were earnings movers late.
U.S. stocks fell for the third straight session as military strikes around the Strait of Hormuz caused a spike in oil futures and bond yields.
US equity futures were edging lower pre-bell Tuesday as concerns about inflation and higher oil pric
Wobbly start predicted Stock futures wobbled on Tuesday morning as investors weighed the fallout from the weekend's escalation in Iran, a jittery bond market and the growing chance the Fed might hike rates again. Dow and S&P 500 futures slipped around 0.5%, while Nasdaq-100 contracts...
Major indexes tend to see their worst performances during the summer-to-fall transition. The Dow industrials and S&P 500 average a decline of 1.1% in September based on historical data. The data goes back to 1897 for the Dow, 1928 for the S&P 500 and 1971 for the Nasdaq.
Stocks were heading for a negative open to start the week after renewed U.S. strikes on Iran and hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve sent jitters through markets. The S&P 500 was down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures were broadly flat. As we head into the final day of the month, the S&P 500 is up almost 3% and the Nasdaq has risen around 4%.
Shares were mixed in Europe and Asia and U.S. futures declined Monday on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve may raise interest rates soon. Oil prices surged more than 3% after U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz, marking their first military action in a month. U.S. benchmark crude oil was trading 3.8% higher at $86.58 per barrel.
Prices have hardly budged where it counts for consumers, courtesy of Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war.
Stock futures were sliding on Friday, signaling that a recent tech rebound was running out of steam ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s keynote address at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.4%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 95 points, or 0.2%.
U.S. tech futures jumped after Nvidia’s bumper earnings and software shares surged premarket after earnings quieted investor pessimism on the sector.
The company posted second-quarter Ebitda of $315.5 million. Wall Street was looking for $297 million.
Stock futures were heading for a negative open early Wednesday ahead of crunch earnings from chip maker Nvidia that will give a steer on artificial intelligence spending—a major headache for markets. Nvidia will report after trading closes today.
Global shares mostly rose Wednesday as investors kept an eye on talks over reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which remains largely closed because of the war in Iran. The global interest in artificial intelligence supported buying of tech shares, but markets have generally moved in a narrow range ahead of Nvidia’s release of its earnings report later in the day. Falling crude prices also brightened investor sentiment in oil-importing nations like Japan, which imports virtually all its oil.
Asian stocks edged higher Wednesday as oil prices extended a decline on receding concerns about another military flare-up between the United States and Iran, while traders were also nervously awaiting Nvidia's earnings and key US inflation data.However, analysts said the simmering US-Canada trade row was causing some uncertainty, while the big event on the agenda this week is Nvidia's second-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
A make-or-break week for the stock market kicked off with another wave of chip stock selling. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.5%. Ahead of Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings report on Wednesday, the iShares Semiconductor ETF was down again.
Everyone seems to have the same idea as Tesla these days. The latest example comes from Chinese EV maker XPeng Monday, it reported a second-quarter per-share loss of 10 cents from sales of $2.9 billion. Wall Street was looking for a 20-cent loss on $3 billion in sales.
Oil prices fell on Monday as investors braced for details of a US plan to isolate the Iranian economy that President Donald Trump billed as the "most crushing" financial operation ever against Tehran.Vice President JD Vance admitted the plan was a "delicate dance" because Iran will "try to apply economic pressure to us".
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