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Wall Street looked to keep momentum from a tech-fueled rally that saw Nvidia leap to become the world's first $4 trillion public company.
If this Wall Street analyst is correct, Nvidia shareholders will see monster returns through the end of the decade.
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Wall Street was relatively quiet with major indexes ticking up modestly as the Trump administration seeks to win more favorable deals with global trading partners.
The stock market and bond market are forecasting different scenarios for the U.S. economy. The former projects optimism — higher equity prices, earnings growth, broad enthusiasm — but the latter sees weakening growth. Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok highlighted this disconnect in research published this week.
Financial market participants have pushed out yet again the end date for the effort to shrink the size of the Federal Reserve's large balance sheet, the minutes of the U.S. central bank's June 17-18 policy meeting showed on Wednesday.
Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country would respond.
Apollo, for one, expects just one rate cut in 2025. JPMorgan strategists forecast two. Goldman Sachs last week updated its prediction to three, starting in September, arguing that moderating growth and elevated borrowing costs will force the Fed’s hand.
The crypto-fueled betting market on whom President Donald Trump will pick to be next Fed chair (as long as he does so by the end of the year) moved toward Kevin Hassett following a new Wall Street Journal article chronicling the race.