{"id":127048,"date":"2022-05-05T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=127048"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:01:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:01:52","slug":"futures-slip-after-fed-driven-rally-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/futures-slip-after-fed-driven-rally-on-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Futures slip after Fed-driven rally on Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures slipped on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve\u2019s less aggressive tone sparked a rally on Wall Street, with investors awaiting jobs data this week for more clues on the path of interest rates.<\/p> Citigroup slipped 0.7% in premarket trading to lead losses among big banks. Megacap companies slid, with Meta Platforms and Tesla Inc down over 1% each.<\/p>\n The benchmark S&P 500 index recorded its biggest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years on Wednesday after the Fed raised its benchmark overnight interest rate by half a percentage point as expected and said it would begin shrinking its $9 trillion asset portfolio next month in an effort to further lower inflation.<\/p>\n Calming investors\u2019 anxiety about aggressive policy tightening, Fed Chair Jerome Powell explicitly ruled out raising rates by 75 basis points in a coming meeting.<\/p>\n The focus shifts to the U.S. Labor Department\u2019s closely watched monthly employment report on Friday for clues on labor market strength and its impact on the monetary policy.<\/p>\n Worries about Fed policy moves, mixed earnings from some big growth companies, the conflict in Ukraine and pandemic-related lockdowns in China have hammered Wall Street recently, overshadowing a better-than-expected quarterly reporting season.<\/p>\n The tech-heavy Nasdaq has declined 17.1% year-to-date, compared with a 9.8% drop in S&P 500 and a 6.3% fall in the blue-chip Dow.<\/p>\n Of the 368 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings as of Wednesday, 79.9% have topped analyst expectations. The first-quarter earnings is expected to grow 9.7% year-over-year.<\/p>\n At 06:53 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 133 points, or 0.39%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 23.5 points, or 0.55%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 95.25 points, or 0.7%.<\/p>\n Twitter Inc rose 2.6% as Elon Musk secured $7.14 billion in funding from a group of investors that includes Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison to fund his $44 billion takeover of the social-media company.<\/p>\n EBay Inc slid 7.4% after the e-commerce retailer projected downbeat second-quarter revenue as growth slows in the sector after two years of rapid expansion during the pandemic.<\/p>\n Albemarle Corp jumped 14.1% as the lithium producer raised its full-year forecasts on robust demand and higher prices for the metal used in electric-vehicle batteries.<\/p>\n U.S.-listed shares of China\u2019s JD.com, NetEase Inc, Pinduoduo and Bilibili Inc fell between 2.4% and 3.8% as the U.S. securities regulator added over 80 firms to a list of entities facing possible expulsion from American exchanges amid a long-running U.S.-China audit standoff.<\/p>\n