Signs of cooling in the labor market and services sector reinforced views that the Fed was ending its rate-raising cycle, with Treasury rates falling and the fear gauge, the VIX, seeing its biggest five-day drop in 21 months. The S&P 500 climbed above its 50-day moving average after rising 6 percent last week for its best week since November 2022.On the data front, the U.S. services sector expanded at its weakest pace in five months, job growth slowed and the unemployment rate rose to a nearly two-year high. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 150,000 in October after September's downward revision of 297,000, the unemployment rate climbed to 3.9 percent, and monthly salary growth slowed.On the political and economic front, the Federal Open Market Committee voted Wednesday to leave interest r

Investors digested the earnings news, with Meta leading technology shares lower on a downbeat outlook for advertising demand. The S&P 500 fell more than 1 percent to its lowest close since May.Following the economic data, the 10-year Treasury rate fell 11 basis points to 4.85 percent, while the 2-year rate fell 7 basis points to 5.05 percent. A report from the Labor Department showed initial jobless claims rose to 210,000 in the week ended Oct. 21, above expectations of 208,000. The previous week's claims were revised to 200,000 from 198,000.Still, consumer spending continued unabated, with gross domestic product growing at 4.9 percent in the third quarter, the fastest pace since 2021, according to the Commerce Department, up from 2.1 percent in the second quarter and beating economist

Alphabet's cloud service revenue is poor, Texas Instruments, which is called the semiconductor industry wind, failed to forecast earnings, chip stocks plunged, the main index of the United States stock market on Wednesday (25) selling tide emerged, and the fear index VIX rose sharply.The S&P fell 1.43 percent to the 4200 level, its lowest level since May. The Nasdaq closed down 2.43 percent, its worst daily performance since Feb. 21.Disappointing earnings reports from the so-called "seven" that have fueled this year's rally have wiped out $200 billion in market value and threatened to push the S&P 500 into a correction.Google parent Alphabet, Tesla and Facebook parent Meta have all fallen sharply since their earnings reports, with Microsoft the only bright spot so far. Amazon will

The market continues to focus on tech earnings and economic data. Jpmorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon slammed central banks on Tuesday for being "100 percent wrong" in their economic forecasts last year, as he took a very cautious view of next year's economic outlook. "The combination of factors has made it more difficult to forecast the economy, and you have to be prepared for possibilities and probabilities rather than just one scenario, which I don't see anybody doing right now."The U.S. economy is coming off its hottest summer since 2020, according to economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, who are renewing fears of an impending recession.However, Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist at Bank of America Wealth Management, said that historically, U.S. recessions tend not to last fo

U.S. stocks traded in a volatile session on Wednesday, with all major indexes rising at the open before retreating ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve minutes, then paring losses and continuing to move higher late in the day. Interest rates on 10-year U.S. Treasuries fell to their lowest in about two weeks as risk aversion continued to rage in the Middle East following Hamas' deadly attack on Israel over the weekend.Minutes from the Fed's September meeting showed that most Fed policymakers agreed that another rate hike would be appropriate and stressed the need to keep rates higher for longer as inflation continues to run well above the central bank's 2 percent target."A number of participants commented that, with the policy rate likely to be at or near its peak, the focus of monet

Overview:The earnings outlook for the S&P 500 for the third quarter is less negative relative to recent quarters. The percentage of companies issuing negative earnings guidance is equal to the 10-year average. Overall, the index is expected to report a year-over-year decline in earnings in the third quarter for the fourth straight quarter. However, the estimated decrease in earnings for the third quarter would be the smallest decline during this four-quarter streak.Overall, the S&P 500 is expected to report a (year-over-year) decline in earnings of -0.3% for the third quarter. If -0.3% is the actual decline for the quarter, it will mark the fourth straight quarter that the index has reported a decline in earnings.However, it will also mark the smallest (year-over-year) decrease in

The 10-year Treasury yield topped 4.54 percent, a 16-year high, but energy stocks led the way, Amazon surged and the S&P 500 rebounded to close higher on Monday.Goldman estimates that each week of the U.S. government shutdown will shave about 0.2 percentage points off GDP, and it also expects the resumption of student loan payments to shave 0.5 percentage points off U.S. economic growth. The threat of inflation has re-emerged, and soaring oil prices and large fiscal deficits are spurring losses on government debt while hurting market sentiment. The Fed last week left its benchmark interest rate on hold, with expectations that rates will remain high for a long time and its hawkish stance unchanged.Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee noted that inflation persistently above the Fed's 2

TRADE WITH UNUSUAL OPTIONSJune 9th, the market was not particularly intense as usual Fridays, but some big-tech companies still maintained significant momentum. Apart from AI-related hardware, companies such as $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ and $Qualcomm(QCOM)$ experienced a rebound, along with potential opportunities for AI-related software companies like $Adobe(ADBE)$ $Oracle(ORCL)$ $Salesforce.com(CRM)$ $Intuit(INTU)$ . However, the main highlight was still $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ which has been

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