Stocks traded down on Monday as investors gear up for multiple earnings and the Federal Reserve’s decision on what to do with interest rates this week. As of Monday afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 216 points, or roughly 0.6%, while the S&P 500 declined about 1.2% and the Nasdaq Composite fell by about 1.8%.
Investors and analysts are awaiting a few noteworthy events this week. Roughly 20% of companies on the S&P 500 will report their earnings this week, including FAANG stocks Apple, Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Google parent Alphabet. Plus, the Federal Open Market Committee is meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday when the Fed is expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points.
CNBC has quoted U.S. Bank senior investment strategist Tom Hainlin as saying: “You’re seeing this push and pull in stock prices between whether the Fed will keep interest rates where they are throughout the year, or whether they’ll pivot to cutting interest rates. That’s what you’re seeing in terms of maybe a little bit more of the intermediate term rise in stock prices”
Added Hainlin: “We would fade that rally because our perspective is the Fed is going to keep interest rates high for some time.”
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