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Wall Street Breakfast

Powell faces questions on Capitol Hill

Wall Street Breakfast

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

S&P, Dow, Nasdaq futures tread water ahead of Fed Powell's testimony.(00:24) FedEx (FDX) falls after revenue miss, weak profit guidance; UPS (UPS) slips as well (01:22). Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to invest up to $135M to expand operations in Ireland (02:03).

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Wednesday, June 21st, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:12.0

Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak on Capitol Hill today.

0:15.6

FedEx is falling after a revenue miss and weak guidance,

0:19.2

and AMD is investing millions to expand in Ireland.

0:24.0

Here's what's making headlines today.

0:27.0

Fed Chair Jerome Powell makes his way to Capitol Hill today.

0:30.0

He faces the House Financial Services Committee at 10 o'clock this morning.

0:34.2

Deutsche Banks Jim Reed says, given that the Fed's decision was only a week ago,

0:39.0

it's likely that Powell will stick to his main themes from the press conference, but it'll be interesting to see how he frames the Fed's decision last week.

0:47.8

Who can forget last week when the Fed decided to pause rate hikes?

0:51.6

They also signaled in the dot plot that two further hikes were expected by December.

0:56.5

And I.N. G. is saying that Powell's Q&A could accelerate the yield-curving version today. The The yield curve inversion reached a multi-decade record on

1:06.2

Tuesday morning as the spread between the 10-year Treasury yield and the 2-year Treasury yield

1:11.5

reached 97 basis points. This represented the widest

1:15.3

gap the curve has experienced in more than 40 years dating all the way back to

1:19.8

1981. We told you Tuesday here on Wall Street breakfast at FedEx would be reporting after the

1:26.7

closing bell. FedEx reported total revenue of 21.9 billion dollars for the quarter versus a 22.66 billion

1:35.0

consensus.

1:36.0

Looking ahead, FedEx sees EPS of $16.50 to $18.50 for fiscal year 24 versus a consensus of $18.31.

1:48.0

Guidance for capital spending was set at $5.7 billion with a priority on investments to improve efficiency.

1:55.9

FedEx traded lower after the report, pre-market FedEx is down 3.2 percent.

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