Stock Market Today: Stocks lower with Fed rate decision in focus
Five central bank rate decisions, as well as a key retail sales reading, will keep markets focused this week.

U.S. equity futures edged lower in early Monday buying and selling, whereas world oil costs jumped to a two-week high and Treasury yields steadied, as investors looked to needed 5-day stretch on Wall Street highlight by a Federal Reserve rate decision later in the week.
Stocks ended sharply bigger on Friday as investors snapped-up beaten-down shares following the S&P 500's traipse into correction territory the day gone by amid a traipse that has wiped more than $4 trillion in equity market cost in much less than a month.
The discount-searching rally did no longer prevent the fourth consecutive weekly decline for the S&P 500, nonetheless, a investors remain concerned that the tariff and budget-reducing insurance policies of President Donald Trump will discipline off a diagram-term recession on the earth's biggest economic system.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, talking to NBC’s 'Meet The Press' on Sunday, said he may well no longer "guarantee" that there wouldn't be a recession, nonetheless brushed apart the postulate that the most celebrated stock market scuttle became as soon as a precursor to 1.
"Corrections are healthy, they are celebrated,” Bessent said. “I‘m no longer timid relating to the markets. Over the lengthy traipse, if we set apart good tax coverage in pickle, deregulation and energy security, the markets will assemble great.” Bloomberg/Getty Photos
A more aspect evaluation of the affect of the administration's insurance policies shall be revealed later this week by the Federal Reserve, that can raise out its two-day coverage meeting Wednesday in Washington with fresh enhance and inflation forecasts.
Analysts demand the central financial institution to create no adjustments to its benchmark lending rate, which currently sits at 4.375%, nonetheless gaze the Fed reducing its 2025 enhance estimate whereas nudging it inflation forecast modestly bigger.
The Fed meeting will descend at some point soon of an active week for central financial institution job, with officers from no fewer than 5 discipline to unveil coverage choices over the coming days, including the Monetary institution of England and the Monetary institution of Japan.
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The U.S. buck index became as soon as maintaining stead at 103.601 heading into the open of the week, whereas benchmark 10-one year Treasury demonstrate yields had been tiny-changed from Friday ranges at 4.287%.
On Wall Street, futures contracts tied to the S&P 500, which is down 5.3% for the month, counsel an opening bell decline for the benchmark of around 15 aspects, whereas the Dow Jones Industrial Average is named 140 aspects lower.
The tech-centered Nasdaq, which has slumped 5.8% to this point this month, is priced for a 51 point decline.
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Away from equities, world oil costs had been modestly bigger following a bunch of U.S. attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen who the administration says were concentrated on oil tankers and a lot of cargo vessels in the Red Sea.
Brent shameful futures for May transport, the realm pricing benchmark, had been best considered 62 cents bigger at $71.22 per barrel whereas WTI contracts for April rose 63 cents to $67.31 per barrel.
In out of the country markets, Europe's Stoxx 600 became as soon as marked 0.29% bigger in mid-day Frankfurt buying and selling, whereas Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.21% in London.
Overnight in Asia, the regional MSCI ex-Japan benchmark rose 0.91% into the shut of buying and selling whereas the Nikkei 225 rose 0.93% in Tokyo after hitting a 5-month low gradual best week.
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