Traders work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 9, 2024.
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U.S. stock futures were little changed late Tuesday ahead of an August consumer inflation report released Wednesday morning.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures It fell 24 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 Index Futures and Nasdaq 100 Futures Both fell 0.1%.
In after-hours trading, stocks game station down 12%. Video game retailer revise open market sales agreement filed with U.S. government U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissionallowing it to sell up to an additional 20 million shares of Class A common stock.
In regular trading on Tuesday, S&P 500 Index Up nearly 0.5% Nasdaq Index Up 0.8%, benefiting from higher share price NVIDIA stock. That marked consecutive gains for broad-market benchmarks and tech-heavy indexes. 30 stocks Dow Chemical The index fell 0.2% as a fall in JPMorgan Chase & Co. shares weighed on the index.
Traders expect a key economic report to be released on Wednesday morning: the August Consumer Price Index. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected the overall CPI to rise 0.2% quarterly and 2.6% annually.
The CPI report and Thursday's producer price index could help determine the size of the Fed's widely expected rate cut at the end of its two-day meeting on Sept. 18. The probability of 50 basis points is 31% CME’s FedWatch Tool.
“I think we're going to see a 25 basis point cut from the Fed next week because a 50 basis point cut would be a wake-up call and a plea of guilty,” Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco, said Wednesday afternoon. CNBC's “Closing Bell” program said.
Hooper added: “I don't think the Fed will do irreparable damage by keeping us at very tight monetary policy levels for an extended period of time, but I do believe that every day that we have interest rates at these levels, the likelihood of a recession becomes smaller. will increase.
She noted that central bankers may have to signal next week through a dot plot, a graph of Fed policymakers' forecasts for interest rates, that future rate cuts should come sooner rather than later.