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The Fox News Rundown

Business Rundown: Market Pullback After Rate Cut Uncertainty

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

After a post-election boom, stocks pulled back at the end of last week as the pace of further Fed rate cuts came into question following a speech from Chairman Jerome Powell. Fox Business correspondent Gerri Willis speaks to Slatestone Wealth Chief Strategist and Managing Partner Kenny Polcari about if the post-election stock surge was warranted and why investors must now read into the economic data over rate cut forecasts. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jerry Willis, and this is the Fox Business Rundown.

0:41.3

Monday, November 18th, 2024. After rising during a post-election boom, stocks pulled back at the end of last week as the pace

0:47.3

of further Fed rate cuts came into question.

0:49.3

The market really is going to focus on the economic data, right?

0:52.3

It understands that maybe the Fed cut is off the table. So that's going to cause now investors to start to look once again on

0:58.5

the economic data points, right? What's inflation doing? What's the economy doing?

1:02.4

Last Friday brought us some important economic data in the form of stronger than expected

1:06.7

retail sales and increased prices on imported goods. Fed Chair Powell spoke publicly last week

1:13.0

suggesting that the job growth and economic numbers they are seeing mean the Fed can take its time

1:18.4

in making additional rate cuts. Investors certainly read this as a sign that a December cut

1:24.1

may be less likely as we saw stocks retreating from their post-election surge.

1:29.2

Traders are also trying to take a closer look at exactly what some of these new Trump

1:33.4

administration policy plans may mean for the economy. Now, this week, investors will be bracing

1:39.5

for a key earnings report from NVIDIA to give them a bit more indication that the market can continue

1:45.0

its positive trajectory or if the market pullback is a trend that is here to stay.

1:50.4

So listen, I think there was a lot of the rally that we saw post the election was just a relief

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