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Update: 8:46 a.m. ET
Pre-Market Check In: Investors Marinating On Results
A hotter-than-expected CPI print and the worst initial claims showing in roughly four years caused U.S. equity futures to tank in the run up to the opening bell.
At last look, the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow are up just a few bips now, paling losses from the negative reports. Still, despite the increase in inflation, investors still see a 25 basis point (0.25%) cut by the Fed as a lock at the forthcoming central bank meeting.
The Russell 2000 fell into the negative ahead of the trading day. The 10Y Treasury, a key benchmark, briefly dropped to 4.002% (-0.74 bips) after the economic data results.
Really, the only asset rising off the backs of today’s report was Gold. Comex Continuous Futures jumped in the report, but to call it ascendent would be a little misleading, seeing how it is: a) once again falling; and b) still lower than where it was last night.
Update: 8:30 a.m. ET
Data Drop: Consumer Price Index Is Out
After yesterday’s wholesale inflation release showed that prices declined in August, some investors wondered what that would bode for consumer prices.
Surprisingly, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) just dropped and was hotter than expected. Inflation advanced 0.4% in August, rising 2.9% year-over-year, faster than expected.
Energy, food, and shelter inflation were to blame for some of the reading. Energy rose 0.7%, food prices rose 0.5%, and shelter rose 0.4%, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
If you take out food and energy though and just look at Core CPI, you’ll see that prices came in as expected. Core CPI rose 0.3% to 3.1%, falling within expectations.
Investors were looking for an increase of 0.3% on both the CPI and Core CPI. The surprise advance, especially after the Producer Price Index (PPI) saw surprise a decline in the month of August, could introduce new questions about the Fed’s direction.
However, in positive news: tariffs did not rear their ugly head in the CPI print for the month, as heavily-imported components of the report (e.g: furniture, apparel) did not see significant month-over-month changes.
Data Drop: Initial Jobless Claims Tick Up Again
Initial & Continuing Claims are just crossing the wire for the week.
Initial Claims rose to 263,000 (Prev: 236,000), the highest reading in about four years, bringing the four-week average of claims to 240,500 (Prev: 230,750).
Continuing Claims stayed grounded at 1.939 million.
Earnings Today: Adobe, Kroger, RH
Yesterday, we had two domestic firms lined up to report with a market cap greater than $1 billion. Today, we have a few more; five, to be exact.
Among them are design tech company Adobe (ADBE) , grocery giant The Kroger Company (KR) , RH (RH) , and National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ) . China-based Cheetah Mobile (CMCM) is also reporting.
The reports are among the stragglers of an earnings season which has defied investors’ expectations and stirred newfound optimism about the trajectory of U.S. equity markets. In a short few weeks, many investors will turn their attention to the next wave of earnings as Q3 earnings tee off.
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