U.S. Stocks Rises As New Month And Fed Quantitative Tightening Kick Off

June 01, 2022 at 16:07 PM EDT

Here, you may find futures markets for stock indexes. S&P 500 futures rose by 0.1 percent to 4,135.75 points. The DJIA futures YM00 gained 110 points, or 0.3 percent, at the day’s finish.

What’s influencing the market’s behavior?

It’s not sure whether last week’s rally in the stock market will continue after losses on Tuesday when treasury rates and oil prices rose. In other words, the yield on treasury rates jumped 5 basis points on Wednesday from 2.876%.

In the United States, crude oil prices were up 1.3% to $116.21 per barrel, while Brent BRN00, +1.58%, was up 1.5% to $117.34. On Tuesday, oil prices jumped when the EU imposed further restrictions on Russian petroleum.

Even nevertheless, the price of oil continued to decline on reports that certain OPEC countries were considering suspending Russia from its oil supply targets. After Bullard’s speech at 1 pm ET, the St. Louis Fed will issue its Beige Book.

A team of analysts from Saxo Bank wrote to clients: “The pressure on the equity markets may pick back up, ironically, if US data through Friday’s jobs report and the May ISM Services suggest that US growth is humming along at a solid pace, taking US yields back toward cycle highs.”

After starting Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will begin decreasing its enormous balance sheet to battle inflation. Investors will keep a watch on the effects of this on the economy.

According to the Saxo Bank analysts, “uncertainty on the consequences of Fed QT, which takes off today and will build up to a pace of $95 billion/month over the next three months”.

The Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing is ready to begin

What does this mean for the markets?

President Joe Biden said he would leave it to the Federal Reserve to deal with inflation, even if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen conceded she was “wrong” last year when she believed that the United States would not have a long-term issue.

GameStop (NYSE: GME), Chewy, and NetApp are all slated to publish their results after the market closes. On the tech side: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), -1.20 percent; and NetApp (NTAP, -1.51 percent).

What are the most important companies?

After Salesforce Inc., a cloud-based customer-relationship-management business raised its profit estimates, CRM’s -2.94 percent soared 9 percent in premarket trade.

Following Capri Holdings, which reported a significant earnings beat and a $1 billion repurchase program, CPRI’s shares surged 2.6%.

BTCUSD was trading approximately 1.1% lower at $31,443. It was down 0.8 percent to $1,832.80 an ounce for August delivery in gold prices.

London’s FTSE 100 SXXP and the Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP were down 0.1% in European equity markets. Asian stock indices concluded with losses or gains of 0.13 percent or 0.56 percent for the Hang Seng Index HSI and 0.65 percent or 0.5% or 0.6% for the Nikkei 225 in Japan, respectively.

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