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December S&P 500 futures (ESZ23) are up +0.36%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ23) are up +0.42% this morning as market participants braced for a key U.S. consumer inflation report.

Two hawkish Federal Reserve policymakers are rethinking the need for more rate hikes amid the surge in the 10-year Treasury yield.

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.63%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +1.74% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices finished the regular session in the red as talks between the White House and Republican representatives on raising the U.S. debt ceiling ended without…

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June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.10%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.08% this morning as market participants looked ahead to a major earnings week on Wall Street.

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.10%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are down -0.04% this morning as market participants looked ahead to a major earnings week on Wall Street.

A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on inflation for more than a year and that more interest rate hikes are needed to get prices under control

Still grappling with persistently high inflation, the Federal Reserve faces an entirely new — and in some ways conflicting — challenge as it meets to consider interest rates this week: How to restore calm to a nervous banking system

A run of strong economic data and signs that inflation remains stubbornly high could lead the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate higher in the coming months than it has previously forecast, several Fed officials say