Wall Street ends sharply higher as Powell cements September rate cut hopes
In highly anticipated comments before the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Powell said "the time has come" to lower the Fed funds target rate, and "the upside risks of inflation have diminished."
"We do not see or welcome further weakening in labor market conditions," Powell added in a speech that appeared to all but guarantee a rate cut at next month's policy meeting, which would be the first such cut in over four years.
"The long wait is over," said
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All three major
Small caps and regional banks were outperformers, rising 3.2% and 4.9%, respectively.
"Financials are at an all-time high, with a huge surge from regional banks," Detrick said. "One would think if a major calamity or a recession were on the horizon, regional banks and financials wouldn't be as strong as they've been."
All three indexes logged weekly advances, standing on the shoulders of last week's largest Friday-to-Friday percentage gains of the year.
Next week, the data-dependent Fed will have a raft of economic indicators to consider ahead of its September rate decision, including the
The Dow rose 462.3 points, or 1.14%, to 41,175.08, the S&P 500 gained 63.97 points, or 1.15%, to 5,634.61 and the Nasdaq Composite added 258.44 points, or 1.47%, to 17,877.79.
All 11 major sectors in the S&P 500 ended the session in positive territory, with real estate shares boasting the largest percentage gain, rising 2.0%.
Workday beat quarterly revenue expectations and announced a
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 8.08-to-1 ratio; on the Nasdaq, a 3.68-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 81 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 149 new highs and 51 new lows.
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