The Federal Reserve's interest rate decision is due out today
Stock futures are firmly higher ahead of today's interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve, as investors unpack this morning's cooling inflation data. The consumer price index (CPI) remained the same in May and increased to 3.3% on an annual basis, both below expectations, while core CPI readings came in lower than anticipated as well. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) soared 226 points after the report, while Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) futures are up triple digits as well.
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- Plus, ORCL jumps after deals; KVYO upgraded; and PARA's merger talks halted again.
5 Things You Need to Know Today
- The Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE) saw 1.3 million call contracts and 815,292 put contracts exchanged on Tuesday. The single-session equity put/call rose to 0.59, while the 21-day moving average stayed at 0.69.
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Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) is up 7.4% premarket, despite disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter results, after strong guidance and deals with Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google and OpenAI. No fewer than 10 analysts lifted their price targets after the news. Should these gains hold into today's trading,
Oracle stock will surpass its March record highs.
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Klaviyo Inc (NYSE:KVYO) is up 2.7% before the bell, after an upgrade from Barclays to "overweight" from "equal weight," with a price-target hike to $29 from $25. The firm called the Boston-based tech company a "rare bright spot among peers." Year to date, the equity is down 18.7%.
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Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) stock is off 3.5% in electronic trading, looking to extend yesterday's 7.9% drop, after CNBC's David Faber reported that National Amusements had paused talks with Skydance on its
proposed merger with Paramount. PARA has struggled this year, off 25% in 2024 so far.
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Economic Data Rush Send Asian Stocks Mixed
Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday, as investors unpacked China’s lower-than-expected inflation data for May, which still rose for a fourth consecutive month. Meanwhile, Japan’s corporate goods inflation rate for last month rose 2.4%, its fastest pace since August, surpassing estimates. Japan’s Nikkei shed 0.7%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng settled 1.3% lower. China’s Shanghai Composite added 0.3%, and South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.8%.
Stateside inflation data is boosting European markets, while U.K. economic data pointed to flat economic growth and a third-straight month of declining construction output. London’s FTSE 100 and the German DAX are both up 0.7% at last glance, and France’s CAC 40 is looking to add 0.6%.