https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-inflation-interest-rates-00104572343cfc006f7036c4fbbf4b71 NEW YORK (AP) — A powerful rally across Wall Street sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve indicated that the cuts to interest rates investors crave so much may be coming next year.
The Dow jumped 512 points, or 1.4%, to top 37,000 and surpass its prior peak of 36,799.65 set at the start of last year.
Other, more widely followed indexes of U.S. stocks also leaped. The S&P 500 rose 1.4% and is within 2% of its own record. The Nasdaq composite also gained 1.4%.
Wall Street loves lower interest rates because they can relax the pressure on the economy and goose prices for all kinds of investments. Markets have been rallying since October amid rising hopes that cuts may be on the way.
Rate cuts particularly help investments seen as expensive, lower quality or that force their investors to wait the longest for big growth. Some of Wednesday’s bigger winners were bitcoin, which rose nearly 4%, and the Russell 2000 index of small U.S. stocks, which jumped 3.5%.
Apple was the strongest force pushing upward on the S&P 500, rising 1.7% to its own record close. It and other Big Tech stocks have been among the biggest reasons for the S&P 500’s 22.6% rally this year.
All the excitement came as the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady at a range of 5.25% to 5.50%, as was widely expected. It’s hiked that rate up from virtually zero early last year in hopes of slowing the economy and hurting investment prices by exactly the right amount: enough to snuff out high inflation but not so much that it causes a painful recession.
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With inflation down sharply from its peak two summers ago and the economy still solid despite high interest rates, hopes have been rising that the Fed can pull off that perfect landing. And in a press conference Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said its main interest rate is likely already at or near its peak. While acknowledging that inflation is still too high and the battle against it is not over, Powell said Fed officials don’t want to wait too long before cutting the federal funds rate, which is at its highest level since 2001. “We’re aware of the risk that we would hang on too long” before cutting rates, he said. “We know that’s a risk, and we’re very focused on not making that mistake.” That’s why Wall Street’s focus was squarely on the projections that the Fed released showing where policy makers see the federal funds rate ending 2024. They showed the median official expects it to be at roughly 4.6%. While that implies a less steep cut than many traders on Wall Street are expecting, it’s more than the median Fed official was predicting three months ago. Following the release of the projections, traders on Wall Street upped their bets for rate cuts in 2024. A majority of bets now expect the federal funds rate to end next year at a range of 3.75% to 4% or lower, according to data from CME Group. Treasury yields tumbled in the bond market on such bets. The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 4.01% from 4.21% late Tuesday. It was above 5% in October, at its highest level since 2007. The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, sank to 4.43% from 4.73%. They both had already been down earlier in the morning, after a report showed prices at the wholesale level were just 0.9% higher in November than a year earlier. That was softer than economists expected.
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Such drops in yields and rallies for stocks, though, may be threatening to undo the very future investors are banking on, according to more cautious investors. Lower yields in the bond market make it easier for U.S. households to get a cheaper mortgage and for U.S. businesses to borrow money to expand. Rising stock prices, meanwhile, give stock-owning households more wealth. All that could put upward pressure on inflation, which could eventually force the Fed to actually hike rates again, warned Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute. He also said it’s unlikely the Fed will cut rates as many times as traders are expecting in 2024 unless there’s a recession. He is expecting the U.S. economy to fall into a moderate recession early next year. “We think it’s going to take a recession to cure that last leg of inflation” and ensure it falls all the way down to the Fed’s 2% target, Samana said. On Wall Street, Vertex Pharmaceuticals jumped 13.2% for the biggest gain in the S&P 500 after it reported encouraging data from a study for a potential pain treatment for patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. That helped offset a 6.7% loss for Pfizer, which gave a revenue forecast for 2024 that was weaker than analysts expected. Much of the shortfall was due to expectations for its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment. Southwest Airlines lost 3.8% after it raised its forecast for how much it will spend on fuel costs during the end of 2023. All told, the S&P 500 rose 63.39 points to 4,707.09. The Dow added 512.30 to 37,090.24, and the Nasdaq gained 200.57 to 14,733.96.
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but He's old, like my grandpa and He's a zionist And He's trying to hurt Putin And he wants to give those lazy free loadin' students free loans And His dogs bite!
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>>1245654 >His dog bites Unironically I bet the dog sniffed out Trump loyalists in the secret service to try and assassinate Biden and that's why the dog bit them.
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>>1245649 >>1245649 >Apple was the strongest force pushing upward on the S&P 500, rising 1.7% to its own record close. That's how you know this bull market is built on lies and hype.
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>>1245664 partisan moron detected
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>>1245658 >Unironically I bet the dog sniffed out Trump loyalists tRump loyalists smell like Mcdonald's Big Macs
Major had a Big Mac attack!
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>>1245649 happened inspite of the old man
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>>1245680 >Nooo, Biden can't make the stock market boom! Mad
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surely this means average Americans are doing better, oh wait, purchasing power is at an all time low due to biden inflation and housing prices are fucking retarded because the wallstreet jews bought up all the houses with their covid money biden gave them
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>>1245886 >implying you give a fuck about the bronx Anonymous
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>>1245888 I think the implication is you, as in "Democrats", don't give a fuck about the Bronx.
It goes without saying no one actually gives a fuck about the Bronx. Least of all people not retarded enough to
1) not vote Democrat
2) not live in a Democrat controlled area
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>>1245886 You can thank Republicans for blocking infrastructure bills
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>>1245905 so, no. thanks for the longwinded concession
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>>1245941 >infrastructure Climate change money laundering you mean.
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>>1245945 i don't think he meant schizobabble
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>>1245945 No as in the fucking road you drive on every day, or not since you might be a basement dwelling NEET
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>boomer parent and millennial cousin complaining about the drop in their retirement funds 2 months ago due to "biden economics" >I just smile and nod because I don't know enough to comment >get home and check my 401k >same rate of return >check my brokerage account >highest it's been since the recession hit >check the djia and s&p 500 last month, last 6 months, last year >all up I'm starting to think Republican voters just aren't good with money
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>>1245941 biden's already spent over a trillion on "infrastructure"
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>>1245960 What's your point?
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>>1245961 that you can't blame "republicans blocking infrastructure bills" when biden's already successfully spent an astronomical amount of money on infrastructure, which hasn't resulted in any kind of material improvement or advancement in the country's actual infrastructure. at this point everyone should assume that most of biden's spending has amounted to little more than lining the pockets of his lobbyist pals.
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>>1245976 >, which hasn't resulted in any kind of material improvement or advancement in the country's actual infrastructure. According to whom?
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>>1245978 according to reality. feel free to dispute
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>>1245976 >an astronomical amount of money on infrastructure Not really
>which hasn't resulted in any kind of material improvement or advancement in the country's actual infrastructure. Source?
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>>1245980 >Not really yes really
>Source? source is the total absence of infrastructure improvement which has already cost this country over a trillion in spending
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>>1245985 >source is the total absence of infrastructure improvement which has already cost this country over a trillion in spending Are you getting paid to lie on the internet or do you just enjoy it for fun?
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>>1245986 >begun so you can't point to a single thing accomplished with over a trillion spent. incredible
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>>1245992 So you missed the list of hundreds of projects which have already begun? There are so many projects they had to make an interactive map to show them all.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/?utm_source=invest.gov Anonymous
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>>1246010 He didn't miss it. He's ignoring it and pretending it's not happening because denialism is the GOP's main reelection strategy.
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>>1246010 wow, a bunch of unfinished projects. incredible. let me know when biden accomplishes one single thing with the trillion he's spent.
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>>1246014 how could anyone not take known liar and multi-million dollar bribe recipient joe biden at his word? this is an outrage
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>>1246019 Fixing what's been broken for decades takes time, correct.
>>1246020 t. James Comer
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>>1245985 >yes really I disagree
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>>1246019 Did you really expect Biden to wave a magic wand and build a bunch of roads and bridges overnight?
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>>1246047 sure.. i mean it's already it's been 3 years but trust the plan amirite fellow libtards?
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>>1246055 Yup and its working
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>>1246058 sure it is, for briben's lobbyist buddies
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>>1246055 It takes at least five years to build an interstate highway
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>>1246071 kek. just 2 more years, bidentards. that'll be 1 trillion + tip
>>1246076 no one asked
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>>1246078 People who go outside actually see the work being done. You wouldn't know about that.
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>>1246081 The only thing I've seen is the Bidet admin gift the local gas company money to replace gas meters.
They, of course, also raised the price of gas to pay for it, despite receiving money from the federal government.
Thanks Democrats. It's like you're fucking gangsters or something. Fuck you all.
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>>1246084 Did you get severely owned again or something?
You always do this after you've been owned.
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>>1246090 So that's a "yes". No one cares if you disagree. Bye.
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>>1246091 >No one cares if you disagree Seems at least one person does. Peace.
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>>1245649 Yay! This will help me buy food (no it won't).
Thanks Biden!
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>>1246109 Get a job, freeloader
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>>1245649 >The federal reserve which is fucking over the common man does something that fucks over the common man again The drop in interstate rates will let banks buy up everything at a discount. You're still getting fucked by inflation and everything else.
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>>1245649 Ah yes, the rich get richer while the average american struggles to pay rent or buy food. Thanks Biden!
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>>1245941 You cannot blame Republicans for blocking bills while a minority when democrats did the same when they were a minority.
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>>1246135 Yeah we can, they should stop blocking good bills. You're speaking as if Democrats and republicans pass bills that are equal.
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>>1246138 Yeah, democrats try and pass bills that are somehow worse. Thanks for playing dipshit
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The stock market is not the economy.
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>>1246147 Impossible to be worse than anti-abortion and pro-billionaire
>>1246199 That's booming too
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>>1245946 schizobabble is the first line of defense for these people, and then clear-cut coping, and then dismissal. There’s no acceptance at all, it’s even rare for them to think about it.