LIVE Markets Stall Ahead of Fed Rate Decision Last Updated: 27 min ago Investors All But Certain of Fed Quarter-Point Rate Cut By George Glover It's Federal Reserve decision day, and investors are all but certain that they've figured out the central bank's next move. Traders pricing in a 94% chance of a quarter-point interest-rate cut, according to the CME FedWatch tool. The odds of an outsized half-point cut stand at 6%. The consensus on Wall Street is that policymakers will lower borrowing costs to suppor ...

Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg: add up the net worth of the world’s three richest people, by Bloomberg or Forbes’ calculations, and you have roughly $1 trillion. That’s about equal to the market capitalization of Berkshire Hathaway, whose CEO Warren Buffett manages to get by with a mere $148 billion to his name. If the Federal Reserve cuts rates today, as expected, Buffett’s fundamentals-minded conglomerate is likely to face pressures distinct from the vanguard tech companies behind the weal ...

By Promit Mukherjee and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada reduced its key policy rate to a three-year low of 2.5% on Wednesday, the first cut in six months, and said it would be ready to cut again if risks to the economy increased in coming months. The 25-basis-point cut reflected a weak jobs market and less concern about underlying pressures on inflation, the bank said. It paused its easing campaign in March after reducing rates by a total of 225 basis points in nine months, startin ...

市场指数表现 - 美股期货涨跌互现 道指期货涨0.04% 标普500期货跌0.01% 纳斯达克100期货跌0.02% 罗素2000期货涨0.06% [2] - 主要ETF盘前下跌 SPDR标普500ETF(SPY)跌0.012%至659.92美元 Invesco纳斯达克100ETF(QQQ)跌0.027%至591.02美元 [2] - 前日主要指数收跌 道指跌0.27%至45,757.9点 标普500跌0.13%至6,606.76点 纳斯达克综合指数跌0.066%至22,333.96点 罗素2000跌0.087%至2,403.03点 [5][6] 美联储政策预期 - 市场定价显示美联储100%概率降息 10年期国债收益率4.01% 2年期国债收益率3.50% [2] - 专家预期降息25个基点 50个基点降息概率降至2% [8][9] - 点阵图预计年底前还有两次降息 剩余三次会议连续降息概率稳定在70% [10][11] 经济数据表现 - 8月零售销售环比增长0.6%超预期 工业生产增长0.1%超预期 [4] - NAHB/富国银行住房市场指数持稳于32 [4] - 8月新屋开工和建筑许可数据将于美东时间8:30公布 [16] 行业板块动向 - 公用事业、房地产和信息技术板块前日跌幅最大 非必需消费品和能源板块逆势上涨 [3] - 原油期货下跌0.45%至每桶64.23美元 黄金现货跌0.55%至每盎司3,669.70美元 [17] - 亚洲市场涨跌互现 欧洲市场早盘走高 [18] 重点公司动态 - Dave & Buster's第二季度业绩不及预期 [4] - General Mills盘前涨0.4% 预计营收45.1亿美元每股收益0.81美元 [16] - 曼联盘前跌0.12% 预计营收2.258亿美元每股亏损0.06美元 [16] - Cracker Barrel盘前涨0.55% 预计营收8.5529亿美元每股收益0.8美元 [16] - Diversified Energy暴跌6.1% 拟二次发行5,713,353普通股 [16] - New Fortress Energy暴涨54.4% 与波多黎各政府达成长期天然气供应协议 [16] - Scisparc飙升154.35% 法院批准暂停与AutoMax Motors合并程序 [16] - 蔚来汽车ADR涨3.85% 获瑞银从中性上调至买入评级 [16] - Workday大涨5.58% 以11亿美元收购人工智能初创公司Sana [16]

U.S. stock futures were swinging on Wednesday following Tuesday’s negative moves. Futures of major benchmark indices were mixed.President Donald Trump arrived in Britain on Tuesday evening for his second state visit, greeted with royal pageantry and the announcement of a multibillion-dollar U.S. technology investment in the United Kingdom. Investors await the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s decision, scheduled to be announced by this afternoon.Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.01% and t ...

In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the reputation of the Fed. The big story: Trump administration moves against political opponents. The markets: Global markets are mixed; U.S. futures are down. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. I remember the days when a raised eyebrow from Ben Bernanke would spark hours of debate over the then Fed chair’s mindset about the state of the economy. His predecessor, Alan Greenspan, bragged about learning to “mumble with great incoheren ...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rocky Swift After weeks of market gyration and agonising over every speck of U.S. data, the day is finally upon us when the Federal Reserve delivers its appraisal of how much stimulus the world's biggest economy needs to keep humming along. Markets have priced in a near certainty the Fed will cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to the 4.00%-4.25% range today. But they also anticipate the U.S. central bank will go further ...

市场整体表现 - 亚洲股市多数下跌 因交易员担忧美联储降息幅度不足且保持谨慎态度[1] - 澳大利亚S&P/ASX 200指数下跌61.6点或0.69%至8,816.10点 早前触及8,814.50低点[4] - 日经225指数早盘收于44,995.79点 上涨93.52点或0.21% 早前创45,033.34历史新高[9] - 欧洲市场全线下跌 德国DAX指数重挫1.8% 法国CAC 40指数下跌1% 英国富时100指数下跌0.9%[14] 行业板块表现 - 澳大利亚矿业板块疲软 必和必拓与力拓均下跌超1% Fortescue下跌1.5% Mineral Resources下跌近3%[4] - 能源板块表现强劲 Woodside Energy和Origin Energy均上涨近1% Beach Energy大涨近3%[5] - 科技板块分化 Block上涨近1% WiseTech Global和Xero均上涨超1% Appen下跌近2% Zip下跌近3%[6] - 银行板块普遍走低 澳大利亚国民银行下跌超1% ANZ Banking和Westpac下跌0.2%-0.5%[6] - 黄金矿业股承压 Evolution Mining下跌超1% Northern Star Resources下跌近2% Resolute Mining下跌1.5%[7] 个股重大变动 - 必和必拓宣布暂停昆士兰焦煤矿运营并裁员750人 主因价格低迷及州特许权使用费过高[5] - PYC Therapeutics股价暴跌超28% 因公司宣布CEO兼执行董事Rohan Hockings突然辞职[7] - 日本东京电子大涨超6% 成为科技板块领涨股[10] - 日本化妆品巨头资生堂上涨超3% TDK上涨近4%[11] 大宗商品与汇率 - 原油价格大幅上涨 10月交割西德州中质原油上涨1.22美元或1.93%至每桶64.52美元[15] - 澳元兑美元汇率报0.668[8] - 美元兑日元汇率报146日元区间[12] 区域市场表现 - 新西兰、韩国、新加坡、印尼和台湾市场跌幅介于0.2%-0.9%[13] - 香港恒生指数上涨1.2% 中国和马来西亚市场分别上涨0.2%和0.1%[13] - 美股三大指数小幅收跌 道指下跌125.55点或0.3% 纳指下跌14.79点或0.1% 标普500下跌8.52点或0.1%[14]

美联储利率决议 - 美联储宣布降息25个基点 将政策利率下调至4 00%-4 25%区间[1][4] - 利率决议符合市场广泛预期 但低于美国总统呼吁的"更大规模"降息幅度[4] - 这是美联储自去年12月以来首次调整利率[4] 利率政策展望 - 美联储官员预计今年剩余两次政策会议上还将进行两次25个基点的降息[2] - 美联储主席鲍威尔表示利率决策将采取"会议-by-会议"的渐进方式[5] - 两位特朗普任命的美联储官员支持更一致的降息步伐 他们在7月底曾反对维持利率不变的决定[5] 美元汇率反应 - 美元兑欧元一度跌至2021年6月以来最低水平1 19185美元[6] - 美元指数最终上涨0 3%至96 926 在波动交易中逆转跌势[1][6] - 市场参与者对美元进一步走软存在分歧 需考虑美国以外地区和全球增长因素[7] 经济数据背景 - 8月美国独栋住宅开工和未来建设许可下降 因新房供应过剩和劳动力市场疲软[6] - 房地产市场数据疲弱 尽管抵押贷款利率下降[6] - 美联储官员逐渐认同关税政策只会对通胀产生暂时性影响[3] 市场解读 - 风险资产和国债市场关注美联储今年额外两次降息的预期[3] - 本次降息被定性为风险管理措施[5] - 利率决策显示美联储开始淡化贸易政策引发持续通胀的风险[2]

US stock futures wobbled on Wednesday in the countdown to the end of Federal Reserve's policy meeting, overwhelmingly expected to usher in the first US interest-rate cut of 2025. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) and the S&P 500 (ES=F) fluctuated along the flat line, after the major US gauges ended Tuesday little changed. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) nudged down less than 0.1%. Wall Street is confident the Fed will announce a rate cut on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET. Analy ...