Trading Day: Finally, a bounce on Wall Street. But for how long?
The CPI inflation report overshadowed the latest 'tit for tat' twist in the global trade war — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would slap further tariffs on European Union goods after the EU and other U.S. trading partners said they would retaliate for trade barriers already erected by the U.S. president.
«Whatever they charge us, we're charging them,» Trump said.
The question now is, how much juice does this bounce have?
Today's Key Market Moves.
* Two of Wall Street's main three indices rise. The Nasdaq gains 1.3% and the S&P 500 is up 0.5%, while the Dow dips 0.2%.
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* Big Tech are among the big winners — Tesla jumps 7.6% for its best day in two months, Palantir Technologies rises 7% and Nvidia adds 6.4% for its best day in six weeks.
* Intel shares surge 12% in after-hours trading after the chipmaker names former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO.
* The Canadian dollar rises 0.5% after the Bank of Canada cuts rates, lifted by more balanced guidance and warnings of tariff-fueled price pressures.
* U.S. bond yields rise despite cooling inflation and good demand at a 10-year auction. Trade war fears push up the 10-year yield by 3 basis points to 4.32%.
* Nikkei futures point to a rise of around 1% at the open in Tokyo on Thursday.
Earlier on Wednesday Japanese wholesale inflation for February came in at 4.0% thanks to buoyant raw material costs. Also in Japan, wage negotiations across major firms in the process of concluding point to another year of substantial — in some cases,
