^DJI - Dow Jones Industrial Average
| Previous close | 29,297.60 |
| Open | 29,313.30 |
| Volume | 336,871,210 |
| Day's range | 29,289.91 - 29,373.62 |
| 52-week range | 24,244.31 - 29,373.62 |
| Avg. volume | 250,591,935 |
- Yahoo Finance Video
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joins Influencers with Andy Serwer
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down with Chairman of the Children’s Health Defense, and President of the Waterkeeper Alliance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- FX Empire
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM) Futures Technical Analysis – Trader Reaction to 29279 Sets the Tone
Given the prolonged move up in terms of price and time, the direction of the March E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday is likely to be determined by trader reaction to Friday’s close at 29279.
- FX Empire
The Week Ahead: Monetary Policy in Focus, with the PBoC, BoJ, BoC, and the ECB in Action
It’s a big week on the monetary policy front, with stats also to influence…
- FX Empire
US Stocks: Boosted by Trade Deal, Better Economic Data, Solid Bank Earnings
The better-than-expected economic data demonstrated the resilience of the U.S. consumer in keeping the current economic expansion alive, and the solid corporate earnings from U.S. banks points toward the importance of the Fed holding interest rates at favorable price levels.
- Yahoo Finance
Former Trump official: 'Markets would prefer a Joe Biden' over other Democrats
A former Trump administration official says markets would prefer Joe Biden over more left wing Democrats who are running for president but that analysts and investors are overreacting.
- Yahoo Finance
The economy is continuing to catch up to the stock market: Morning Brief
Top news and what to watch in the markets on Friday, January 17, 2020.
- Bloomberg
The Debate Over Whether to Call It QE Is Over, and the Fed Lost
(Bloomberg) -- In the court of investor opinion, the verdict is in. The Federal Reserve is guilty of quantitative easing.Never mind that Chairman Jerome Powell tells everyone his efforts to shore up funding markets are “in no sense” QE. Try as policy makers may, they’ve lost the ability to convince people that Treasury purchases aren’t at least partially why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up almost 4,000 points since late August.Sure, it’s all labels. If you want to call it QE, you can. Or not. If you want to ascribe the rally to Powell, that’s up to you. Certainly the Fed thinks it’s on solid ground. Rather than trying to drive down long-term interest rates to stimulate the economy, a la QE, it’s simply buying T-bills to keep the financial system’s plumbing in order.The problem for policy makers is that perceptions matter in shaping sentiment. If everyone believes central bank largess is pushing up prices, what happens in the market when it’s turned off?“Whether the Fed’s liquidity injection impacted directly the economy or the pricing of assets or not, it’s certainly true that a lot of people think it did,” said Jim Paulsen, Leuthold Group Inc.’s chief investment strategist. “Whether anything is going to change if the Fed takes it away doesn’t matter. If enough people feel it will, then it’s going to impact markets.”In October, the Fed began buying $60 billion of Treasury bills per month, a move policymakers deemed as a “purely technical” way to improve control over the benchmark interest rate they use to guide monetary policy. Monthly purchases of Treasury bills will extend at least into the second quarter of 2020, officials reiterated last month.“Growth of our balance sheet for reserve management purposes should in no way be confused with the large-scale asset purchase programs that we deployed after the financial crisis,” Powell said when the program started.Except, the market’s straight-up trajectory is muddying efforts to distinguish the new program from the old one. The S&P 500 has soared 16% since its low in August, including the best fourth-quarter rally in six years. Inconveniently for Powell, even his lieutenants say the reaction in stocks isn’t coincidental.Low interest rates, a belief there is a high bar to future increases and expansion of its balance sheet are helping to lift asset prices, according to Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan. “All three of those actions are contributing to elevated risk-asset valuations,” he said Wednesday on Bloomberg Television. “We ought to be sensitive to that.”The ranks of market pundits who agree seems to expand every day. Since the Fed started buying T-bills, the S&P 500 has gone up by almost 1% for every 1% increase in the Fed’s balance sheet, Deutsche Bank observed.“So in that sense, Fed balance sheet expansion has at least been correlated with the increase in the stock market we have seen since October,” Torsten Slok, chief economist at Deutsche Bank AG, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview earlier this month.QE refers to the crisis-era policy to boost money supply and lower long-term borrowing costs. It helped pull the economy back from the brink of ruin after the financial crisis. Three rounds of easing programs helped the stock market too, coinciding with a fivefold rally in equities.Data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence show prior balance-sheet expansions were correlated with stock market gains, too. Through the latest cycle, the S&P 500 notched an annualized gain when the balance sheet was getting bigger that was 5.4 percentage points more than when the central bank was not buying Treasuries, data compiled by Gina Martin Adams, Chief Equity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, show. Every time the central bank has mentioned trimming its holdings, a major equity correction followed, she said.In 2011, hints from the Fed that it wouldn’t expand its asset purchase program preceded a 19% drop in the S&P 500. In 2015, talk of balance-sheet shrinkage came before a 12% decline. In late 2018, a comment about a balance sheet unwind on “autopilot” coincided with the near death of the bull market.Skeptics say equating quantitative easing with the current program, where the Fed buys short-term debt, is extreme, as is believing that $60 billion worth of monthly Treasury bill purchases (and sundry other stimulus) holds sway over the direction of a $30 trillion U.S. stock market. Nevertheless, the wind-down of monthly purchases is the biggest risk facing investors face in 2020, strategists at John Hancock Investment Management said in December.“Powell went out of his way to explain that it wasn’t QE, but it doesn’t really matter,” said Krishna Memani, former vice chairman of investments at Invesco. “The Fed is in a bind. Effectively with policy initiatives they have, they have to increase reserves, and investors are aware of that. They will be in that mode for the foreseeable future.”\--With assistance from Sarah Ponczek.To contact the reporter on this story: Elena Popina in Hong Kong at epopina@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brad Olesen at bolesen3@bloomberg.net, Chris NagiFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance
Trump says he'll nominate Shelton, Waller to remaining Federal Reserve board seats
President Donald Trump on Thursday officially nominated former economic adviser Judy Shelton and St. Louis Fed economist Christopher Waller to the remaining two seats at the Fed.
- Yahoo Finance
Coca-Cola's Powerade adds new products to its lineup
After more than a decade, Coca-Cola’s Powerade brand is stepping up its game with two new products.
- FX Empire
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM) Futures Technical Analysis – Set to Post Record High Close
The nearest upside targets are a pair of uptrending Gann angles at 29217 and 29315. This angles can continue to guide the Dow higher, but crossing to the strong side of these angles will put the market in an extremely bullish position.
- Investing.com
Stocks - Wall Street Clinches Fresh Record; Google Joins $1 Trillion Club
By Yasin Ebrahim
- Yahoo Finance
Why the pain may not be over for tech unicorns: Morning Brief
Top news and what to watch in the markets on Thursday, January 16, 2020.
- Financial Times
US stocks close at record highs boosted by tech, earnings
Wall Street struck a trio of fresh records and the S&P 500 closed above 3,300 for the first time, boosted by tech and financial stocks and as investors remained upbeat in the wake of the US-China trade truce. Having already set numerous records this week, the S&P 500 closed 0.8 per cent higher at 3,316.81, led by a 1.4 per cent increase in tech stocks and a 1 per cent rise in industrials. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.9 per cent to 29,297.64, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.1 per cent to 9,357.13.
- Investing.com
Comic: Markets Brace for Earnings Parade as Wall Street Notches Fresh Record Highs
By Jesse Cohen
- FX Empire
Fed Beige Book: US Economy Expands Modestly but Trade Concerns Linger
There was nothing in the Beige Book to suggest a change in Fed policy. Even with the signing of the trade deal between the United States and China on Wednesday, Fed policymakers are likely to maintain their wait and see approach.
- Yahoo Finance
'This is the new normal': California businesses pessimistic on phase 2 deal
Despite the signing of a phase one trade deal, California companies from banks to cemeteries say they have low optimism over business relationships rebounding in activity.
- FX Empire
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM) Futures Technical Analysis – Next Upside Target Angle at 29153
Based on the early price action and the current price at 29001, the direction of the March E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average into the close on Wednesday is likely to be determined by trader reaction to yesterday’s close at 28934.
- Yahoo Finance
Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
A full transcript of Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren's interview with Yahoo Finance on Jan. 13.
- Yahoo Finance
Trump should 'absolutely' get credit for changing the China conversation: analyst
American people view China differently thanks to Trump, one analyst says.
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