Wednesday’s selling carried into Thursday as investors nonstop to take a risk-off deal with to markets later the Federal Reserve’s latest policy periodical.
The central bank issued its third jumbo-sized rate boost days gone by and set expectations that it will take up again to hike rates over its next few meetings. But, the Fed is not alone in its aggressive stance. Several global central banks have augmented their target rates this week in an ongoing effort to tame inflation, counting the Bank of England and Switzerland’s Inhabitant Bank, which earlier today issued 50 basis point and 75 basis point rate hikes, correspondingly. (A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.)
“Global equities are struggling as the world anticipates surging rates will trigger a much sooner and maybe severe global depression,” says Edward Moya, senior market strategist at currency data source OANDA. “Most of these rate hikes around the world are not done yet which means the race to restrictive territory won’t be over until closer to the end of the year.”
The result here at home was a selloff in bond prices, which sent yields on regime notes spiking. The 10-year Reserves yield surged 19.2 basis points to 3.704% – its highest level since early 2011 – while the 2-year Reserves yield spiked 12.1 basis points to 4.116%, its loftiest perch since late 2007.
As for stocks, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slumped 1.4% to 11,066, while the S&P 500 Index (-0.8% to 3,757) and the Dow Jones Manufacturing Average (-0.4% at 30,076) suffered more modest losses.
Other news in the stock market today:
- The small-cap Russell 2000 spiraled 2.2% to 1,722.
- U.S. crude futures rose 0.7% to end at $83.49 per barrel.
- Gold futures added 0.3% to end at $1,681.10 an ounce.
- Bitcoin added 1.7% to $19,322.51. (Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day; prices reported here are as of 4 p.m.)
- Eli Lilly (LLY) jumped 4.9% after UBS Global Investigate analyst Colin Bristow upgraded the healthcare stock to Buy from Neutral. The analyst says later clear data for the company’s SURMOUNT-1 obesity drug and Food and Drug Handing out (FDA) praise for its diabetes behavior, T2DM, “we now view LLY as being the most arresting name in our large-cap coverage, with the utmost the makings upside to numbers.”
- KB Home (KBH) fell 5.1% after just missing analysts’ consensus top-line assess for its fiscal third quarter. The homebuilder reported return of $2.86 per share, more than probable, but revenue of $1.84 billion fell small. Sector peer Lennar (LEN) also unveiled its weekly results, exposure higher-than-probable fiscal Q3 return of $5.03 per share on inline revenue of $8.9 billion. LEN stock rose 2.0% on the day.
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