Traders Push Back Rate-cut Expectations for 2025 After Hot December Jobs Report
December US Nonfarm Payrolls Rise More Than Expected, Unemployment Rate Slows
Express News | After the release of the nonfarm payroll data, the three major stock index futures plummeted. Dow futures fell over 0.66%, S&P 500 futures dropped 0.7%, and Nasdaq 100 futures declined nearly 1%. The dollar index rose by 0.57% to 109.79.
US Morning News Call | Market Focuses on Today's Release of Nonfarm Payrolls
Goldman Sachs strategists warn: The pricing of U.S. stocks is at a "perfect level" and is likely to experience a pullback.
Goldman Sachs' Chief Global Equity Strategist Peter Oppenheimer warned that as investors digest the uncertainty surrounding rising Bond yields, overvaluations, and further interest rate cuts, the current "perfect" earnings market environment may be difficult to sustain.
Quietly, the Federal Reserve has given more attention to this "new" inflation Indicators.
Including Federal Reserve Chairman Powell, senior officials of the Federal Reserve are increasingly focusing on a lesser-known inflation Index—the market-based version of the Personal Consumer Expenditure Price Index, which excludes a range of service industry data that its collectors cannot measure directly and must estimate. Currently, this Index is closer to the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target, potentially indicating that the threshold for further interest rate cuts is lower than the market anticipates.
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