Market Rebound Uncertain Amid Weak Consumer Spending
Will the financial market welcome a "heavy bullish"? The Federal Reserve may end this round of asset reduction by the end of this year.
Since June 2022, the Federal Reserve began implementing quantitative tightening policy, known as shrinking its balance sheet (QT); some Wall Street strategists have said that even though the pace of the balance sheet reduction has slowed recently, it is unlikely that a sudden announcement to end the balance sheet reduction will be made.
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S&P 500 Notches Its Best Day Since 2022 As Wall Street Claws Its Way Back From Monday's Rout
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[Bullish and Bearish Materials] Dow Jones Industrial Average rose (+683.04) to 39446.49, Nasdaq Composite Index rose (+464.22) to 16660.02, 1 dollar = 147.20-30 yen, Chicago Nikkei Futures rose (35575, +795 compared to Osaka), SOX Index rose (+303.74) to 4730.01, VIX Index decreased (-4.06) to 23.79, US crude oil futures rose (+0.96) to 76.19, expectations of subdued inflation in the US, active share buybacks.
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S&P rises over 2%, the best in nearly two years, with chip stocks up about 7%, Nasdaq and Chinese stocks up 2.8%, and US Treasury yields and the yen falling for three consecutive days.
The latest employment data alleviates concerns over the US economy, and US stocks rose more than 1.7%. Nvidia's stock rose more than 6%, and Tesla, Alibaba, PDD Holdings, and Tencent ADR rose more than 3%. Bullish on weight loss drug reports, Eli Lilly and Co's stock rose more than 13%, and Novo-Nordisk A/S's US stock rose nearly 8%. The 10-year US Treasury yield rose above 4%, and short-term bond yields rose by 10 basis points. Oil prices rose for the third consecutive day, gold halted its five-day decline, and digital currency had a big increase.
Risk Assets Finally Looking up After Scary Monday
Emerging markets stock market continues to suffer from bleeding, Vanguard etf has experienced the longest withdrawal since the outbreak.
As of this Wednesday, the largest investment in individual stocks, Taiwan Semiconductor, has seen continuous net outflows of funds for 10 trading days for the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), with investors withdrawing a total of 2.12 billion US dollars. However, analysts have been raising profit expectations for MSCI Emerging Markets Index component stocks for nine consecutive weeks.
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Jpmorgan: If there is no urgency for the Federal Reserve to relax monetary policy, US stocks still face risks.
JPMorgan's newly appointed market strategy director stated that the US stock market is no longer a one-sided upward trend, but rather a growing number of two-sided trends. The recent rotation of stocks appears to be closing out cycles rather than the beginning of trend-selling over the entire cycle. Kolanovic was JPMorgan's former market strategy director who left in July. An analysis article by Wall Street News pointed out that his departure might not be good news for the US stock market.
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