What to Expect in the Week Ahead (MU, ACN, FDX Earnings; FOMC Decision)
The candidate successor for the 'Wall Street big brother': The FED will lower interest rates this week, and 'Trump 2.0' has a milder impact on inflation!
1. A senior executive from JPMorgan stated that investors have reasons to be optimistic about 2025 and commented on the "Trump 2.0" policy and the prospects of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. 2. She expects the Federal Reserve to cut rates for the third consecutive time this Wednesday to shift towards a loose monetary policy while avoiding an economic recession.
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Wall Street's “last bear” Stifel: U.S. stocks will fall to 5,000 points by the end of 2025.
① Barry Bannister, the chief investment strategist at Stifel, one of the few bears on Wall Street, expects that U.S. stocks will be below current levels by the end of 2025; ② Bannister believes that persistently high inflation may prompt the Federal Reserve to maintain high interest rates, impacting the stock market's upward momentum; ③ In contrast, other strategists are focusing on the trajectory of economic growth rather than the extent of interest rate cuts.
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"Person of the Year" Trump rings the opening bell at the NYSE, emphasizing that "the stock market is everything."
On December 12, the elected President Trump was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2024, ringing the opening bell at the NYSE that day; Trump rang the bell with the CEO of ICE and the CEO of Time Magazine, along with the president of the NYSE, while the CEOs of companies such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were present; Trump promised an "unprecedented economy," planned to increase oil drilling to reduce inflation, and committed to lowering the corporate tax rate to 15%.
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The Nasdaq has risen above 0.02 million points, and the Analyst "pours cold water": it's just "eating the food of the future."
Historically, the U.S. stock market usually performs well in December, especially in the second half of the month, but this year investors seem to be overly enthusiastic, with analysts suggesting that the current gains are overextending future potential.
“Wall Street magic calculator”: US stocks will rise and then fall next year Trump and Musk will risk falling
① Tom Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat, known as the "Wall Street Oracle," predicts a mid-year target of 7000 points for the S&P 500 Index in 2025, with a year-end target of 6600 points, reflecting an overall increase of 8%. ② He believes that supporting factors for the US stock market next year include interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and Trump's tax cut policy, but Musk's Government Efficiency Department and Trump's tariffs may hurt the USA GDP.
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