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...Separately, Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed and another voting member of the FOMC, told an event in Las Vegas that three cuts remained “a very reasonable baseline”....
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...The blue-chip S&P 500 closed up 0.9 per cent, at a new record, continuing a rally that has pushed the index 27 per cent higher since October. The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3 per cent....
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...US stocks fell on Friday as traders trimmed their bets on interest rate cuts, with the benchmark S&P 500 falling 0.6 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite down 1 per cent....
...In the stock market, the S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent in mid-day trade and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3 per cent, pulled lower by tech stocks following Tuesday’s weaker than expected growth forecasts...
...But their reaction on Wednesday to the Fed’s announcement was far from disappointment, with a sharp rise in equities feeding a rally that has added 27 per cent to the S&P 500 since October....
...The S&P 500 has hovered just short of its January 2022 record in thin post-Christmas trading before dipping 0.3 per cent on Friday’s last trading day....
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...Stocks have rallied strongly this year, with the blue-chip S&P 500 enjoying its best start to a year since 2019, having risen 10.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2024....
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...The US S&P 500 was little changed following the previous day’s losses....
...The S&P 500 closed down almost 1 per cent with roughly nine in every 10 stocks losing ground....
...The S&P 500 was up 0.3 per cent in afternoon trading on Thursday....
...Wall Street stocks continued their ascent on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 adding 0.5 per cent — edging closer to a record high....
...We still expect there will be some slowdown, but it’s likely to be pushed back until the second half of the year,” said Satyam Panday, chief US economist at S&P Global Ratings....
...Stocks and bonds were both higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 up 1.2 per cent while yields on rate-sensitive two-year Treasuries hovered around three-week lows at 4.52 per cent....
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