U.S. stock indexes fell in Thursday trading, with growth stocks including bellwether Apple leading declines as investors worried that aggressive interest rate increases to curb decades-high inflation could tip the economy into recession.
Megacap stocks Meta Platforms, Microsoft Corp, Google-owner Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com, and Tesla Inc slipped between 1% and 2.1% in premarket trading.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index slumped over 3% on Wednesday, bringing year-to-date losses to 27.4%… The S&P 500 growth index has declined 25.6% so far this year…
The Labor Department said Thursday that its producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, climbed 11% in April from the previous year. On a monthly basis, prices grew by 0.5%. Although that marks a slight moderation from March’s reading of 11.2%, the gauge still came in higher than the 10.7% forecast by Refinitiv economists, suggesting inflationary pressures remain strong.
Core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes the more volatile measurements of food and energy, increased 0.6% for the month, following a 0.9% increase in March. Over the past 12 months, core prices were up 6.9%.
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I’m really starting to believe that First Then (and his numerous aliases) are an MDN staff member. How else to explain his near-instant reply postings whenever anything remotely political is posted.
so true, the only thing faster at a MDN post than “First Then” is Joe Biden making a bone headed decision on the economy.
We’re in the bearish market.
Stocks continue to slide… a lot! Inflation up. Cost of everything up. Crime up. Border open. I’m lov’in it!
America…are you paying attention now? This is what you wanted?
This is not what America wanted. This is what the establishment globalists wanted, bankrolled by Mark Zuckerberg.
https://twitter.com/ur1TruthDetect/status/1523480379234996224
Dinkus!
You’re still trying to claim biden didn’t win fairly? People talk about how trump gets free rent, but apparently Biden is getting plenty of it too.