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U.S. stocks climb as yields fall to two-week low; copper tumbles

Published 06/22/2022, 10:14 PM
Updated 06/23/2022, 05:32 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks are reflected on an electronic board displaying Japan's stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, October 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks are reflected on an electronic board displaying Japan's stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, October 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

By Caroline Valetkevitch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks in global markets rose on Thursday as U.S. Treasury yields fell to two-week lows, while copper was at 16-month lows as investors worried about a possible global economic slowdown.

The Nasdaq led the way higher on Wall Street, rising more than 1.6%. Technology shares including Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and defensive shares gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost as investors continued to worry about a potential recession.

Investors have been weighing the risk of hefty interest rate rises tipping economies into recession.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified before Congress for a second day, a day after saying the Fed is committed to cutting inflation at all costs, and acknowledged a recession was "certainly a possibility."

"What we're seeing here is a (stock) market trying to absorb the Fed's tightening and basically trying to put in a low in a bear market," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

"We have yields that are coming down, and so that's helping stocks," he said. "For now, the market has probably discounted somewhat of a mild recession."

Gauges of factory activity released on Thursday in Japan, Britain, the euro zone and United States all softened in June, with U.S. producers reporting the first outright drop in new orders in two years.

Manufacturing growth is slowing worldwide partly because China's COVID-19 curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have disrupted supply chains and added to inflation problems.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194.23 points, or 0.64%, to 30,677.36, the S&P 500 gained 35.84 points, or 0.95%, to 3,795.73 and the Nasdaq Composite added 179.11 points, or 1.62%, to 11,232.19.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.82% and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.43%.

In the U.S. bond market, yields fell, partly on a growing belief that yields may have topped for the near term even if inflation stays high.

Yields have dropped from their highest level in more than a decade, reached before last week’s Fed meeting, when the U.S. central bank hiked rates by 75 basis points, the biggest increase since 1994.

Benchmark U.S. 10-year yields fell to 3.005%, before rebounding to 3.070%. They have dropped from 3.498% on June 14, the highest since April 2011.

Copper prices slumped as rising interest rates and weak economic data fed worries about demand.

Copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) hit its lowest level since February 2021.

In the foreign exchange market, the euro slid across the board following the weaker-than-expected German and French PMI data.

© Reuters. A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 22, 2022.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Against the dollar, the euro declined 0.5% to $1.0509. It earlier declined below a key $1.05 level for the third time this week. The euro also declined 1.4% versus the Japanese currency to 141.85 yen.

Oil prices ended lower as investors weighed the risk of a recession. Brent crude futures fell $1.69 to settle at $110.05 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped $1.92 to settle at $104.27.

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Pump during a week and dump in a weekend.
just shows how embarrassing weak the US economy truly is, fed have only been rising rates for a few months and started qt only this month and people have already started to bet on the fed pivit, if the economy can't last a few quarters without rate cuts and qe it just shows its on its last legs really doesn't have long left as a economic superpower.
Dow has been dropping since January. Transportation since November. Powell constantly says that they will raise rates and for some reason people think it's going up. ****is wrong with you guys?
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Wall Street CLUELESS in this market they don't even know what direction to steer their algos....inflation, recession, stagflation, bear market rally, ELONS stupid tweets...hope you guys sweat it out while us long term investors sit back and watch the carnage while hedge funds continue to go bankrupt be a use they can't meet their margims...boo hoo.
Everyone is going to cash but cash earns nothing so it won't Stay there.
data only coming in negative if you read it that way. Plenty of fundamentally strong economic data out there if you look. Look at the jobs market for one.
They only print the data the way it is. Read it how you want, but it's negative.
Fake financial journalism nas the big machine spewing out lies so you can buy weekly fake dips so hedge funds can bleed you dry.
Who are these anxiety ridden wimps expecting another 75 point hike? Jpow said they will not be common and did everything possible short of saying there will be no 75 point hike next meeting.
recession concern, fear, whatever seems a fake. Untold reason for recent rate hikes seems to slow overheating economy. companies are expected to have healthy earnings.
It's all out panic and hysteria. They think inflation just occurred normally and won't factor in the biggest cuase of kinked supply chains. Demand destruction will do little compared to healing the supply side which is happening every day. People are so afraid to lose a dollar they can't think straight.
Recession is 100% confirmed. American stocks will plunge to about 40% of the current price by next year.
Recession = everyone losing jobs THEN stocks plunging. It didnt even start yet.
Your remedial economic understanding is comical thanks for the laugh. I prey for your sake you are no older than 10
But I bet he can spell Pray correctly.
Maybe they are selling Asia stocks to buy American stocks. Probably because the US stock market is expected to rally big.
Asia is up today there trying everythingvthey can to hold it back
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