Wall Street held firmer on Wednesday, a day after strong reports on the economy hurt U.S. stocks by stirring up worries that inflation and interest rates may remain higher than expected.The S&P 500 rose 0.2% to recover a bit of its 1.1% slump from the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average....
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Thursday, January 9th

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Equity markets continue to struggle with traction in 2025. Despite another round of good labor data, Wednesday's action saw the S&P 500 hover near Tuesday's low and at the low end of a two-month trading range. The ADP figure was weaker than expected but still solid at 122,000 and compounded by a strong initial claims report. The initial claims fell to a 1-year low in the last week of December, with total claims dropping by nearly 100,000, and both figures aligning with healthy labor conditions.

The bad news is that strong labor markets will keep the FOMC from cutting rates aggressively in 2025, if at all. The market expects the FOMC to cut in 2025, but the odds of deep cuts are diminishing quickly, with only a 50/50 chance for two 24 basis point reductions by year's end. If the next round of inflation data is still hot, those odds of two cuts in 2025 could fall to zero.

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Federal Reserve officials at December meeting expected slower pace of rate cuts ahead

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Thursday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day

A Stock With Recent Earnings Beat:Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS)

Nebius Group

Nebius Group N.V., a technology company, builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning and other technologies to help consumers and businesses navigate the online and offline world. The company's services include Nebius AI, an AI-centric cloud platform that offers infrastructure and computing capability for AI deployment and machine-learning oriented solutions; and Toloka AI that offers generative AI (GenAI) solutions at every stage of the GenAI lifecycle, such as data annotation and generation, model training and fine-tuning, and quality assessment of large language model for accuracy and reliability. It also offers Avride, an autonomous driving solution which targets ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, and food/grocery delivery as application domains, as well as focuses on autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, an EdTech service that prepares specialists for STEM roles, and equipping them with essential technology skills. The company was formerly known as Yandex N.V. and changed its name to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024. Nebius Group N.V. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.

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