S&P 500 Index Stock Discussion

The Federal Reserve is set to release its decision from the December FOMC meeting at 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, followed by a press conference with Chair Jerome Powell at 2:30 p.m. The announcement is expected to significantly impact markets.
Rate Cut of 25bps Almost Certain; Focus Shifts to Future Easing Path
A 25 basis point rate cut is anticipated, marking the third reduction this year and bringing the tot...

– This morning at 10AM: China released economic numbers related to November retail sales, industrial output, fixed asset investment and jobless rate.
– While November's industrial production rose in line with expectations (+5.4% year on year), and the jobless rate of 5% remained steady, retail sales for November rose only 3% compared to the 5% expectation. The latest retail sales stats validate the Chinese government...

S&P 500: 6,051.09 (0.0%)
Nasdaq-100: 21,780.25 (+0.8%)
DJIA: 43,828.06 (-0.2%)
Eurostoxx: 4,967.95 (0.0%)
U.S. crude futures: 71.29 (+1.8%)
U.S. equities had a mixed performance on Friday. Technology shares powered higher, leading the Nasdaq-100 Index to climb 0.8%, largely driven by a surge in Broadcom Inc. due to predicted high demand for its artificial intelligence chips. However, the S&P 500 Index closed flat for the session and recorded its worst weekly...

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
On Friday, the markets looked very tired and exhausted for moving upward.  The volumes were veey small and on a  Friday, normally the buy the dippers should float the markets up.  However we did not see rhat.  Even semicon chip  stock AVGO had a monster pop, up 25% the NASDAQ was only up 24 points and S&P 500 ended the day flat.  FYI , AVGO is a number 8 stock on market cap right after the mag 7.  AVGO is also a trillion market cap chi...