(Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes ended with strong gains on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s November meeting showed that rate hikes may slow soon.
The minutes showed that a “significant majority” of policymakers agreed that it “would soon be appropriate” to slow the pace of rate hikes.
“What the stock markets needed to see for continued recent strength is what we got on the record,” said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.
Since the Fed’s last meeting on November 1-2, investors have been more optimistic that price pressures are starting to ease, which means that lower interest rate hikes could curb inflation.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 95.96 points, or 0.28%, to 34,194.06, the S&P 500 (.SPX) rose 23.68 points, or 0.59%, to 4,027.26, the Nasdaq Composite (nineteenth) It added 110.91 points, or 0.99%, at 11,285.32.
Trading volume was thin ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, with the US stock market open for half of the session on Friday.
Earlier on Wednesday, a mixed batch of economic data led to a drop in the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which helped stocks rally.
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“What I think you’re seeing is the renewed investor enthusiasm fueled by those seeing this beautiful light at the end of what was a very dark tunnel. And there’s been a lot of money on the sidelines rushing back into the markets, waiting to come back,” said portfolio manager Moez Kassam of Anson Funds. To work”.
Heavy stocks, including Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Meta Platforms Inc (META.O)It rose 1.00% and 0.72%, respectively.
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) It jumped 7.82% as Citigroup upgraded the electric car maker’s stock to “neutral” from a “sell” rating.
Deer and Co (den) It rose 5.03% after the agricultural equipment manufacturer reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings.
Nordstrom Inc stock fell 4.24% as the fashion retailer cut its profit forecast amid sharp cuts to lure inflation-wary customers.
Trading volume on US exchanges reached 9.25 billion shares compared to an average of 11.6 billion for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Advances outnumbered losers on the New York Stock Exchange by a ratio of 1.97 to 1; On the Nasdaq, a ratio of 1.61 to 1 favored the bulls.
The S&P 500 posted a new 52-week high and no new lows, while the Nasdaq posted 97 new highs and 126 new lows.
(Reporting by Carolina Mandel, Shriyashi Sanyal, and Ankika Biswas); Editing by Richard Chang, Rosalba O’Brien and Chris Reese
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