US stock futures edged higher, pointing to a partial rebound for major indexes after the S&P 500 closed in a bear market for the first time since 2020. <\/p>\n
Futures tied to the S&P 500 gained 0.5% after the broad-market index tumbled 3.9% on Monday. Nasdaq-100 futures climbed 0.7%, suggesting a rise in technology stocks after the opening bell. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 0.3%. <\/p>\n
Global stocks have come under pressure in recent weeks on concerns that major central banks will have to move more aggressively than expected to combat inflation. The latest data release on consumer prices in the US further stoked these fears, as it rose from the previous month to 8.6% and reached the highest level in more than four decades. The S&P 500 declined for the past four straight trading sessions, losing over 10%. The index is down nearly 22% from its last record high.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn’t necessarily read a lot into a sort of mini reversal. Things got really oversold and now people are just going to wait for the Fed, \u201dsaid Colin Graham, head of multiasset strategy at Robeco. <\/p>\n
The Federal Reserve is set to release a monetary policy decision on Wednesday, after a two-day meeting. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the policy makers are considering a surprise 0.75-percentage-point interest-rate increase. <\/p>\n
Some investors are likely to be bargain shopping after such a sharp decline across markets, Mr. Graham said. \u201cAt one point yesterday, every single stock in the S&P 500 was down. As long-term investors, we search for value as long as the economic damage isn’t too great. “<\/p>\n
Investors are struggling to come to terms with powerful forces in the market: soaring inflation that erodes consumer purchasing power, and the prospect of a recession that could damage company profits and tip weaker companies into failure. One bond market indicator, the yield curve difference between two-year and 10-year government debt, briefly inverted overnight, flashing a warning that a recession could be ahead. In the European morning, it rose to 0.021 percentage point. <\/p>\n
The US yield curve last inverted in April, when shorter-dated Treasury yields rose more than longer-dated ones on expectations that the Fed could raise rates at a quick pace following a strong jobs report.<\/p>\n
Bond markets were broadly more stable on Tuesday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note declined to 3.299% from 3.371% on Monday, reversing direction after four consecutive days of rises. Prices rise when yields fall. The yield on shorter-dated bonds also slid, with the two-year edging down to 3.265% from 3.279% the day before, <\/strong>after its biggest two-day jump since the week after Lehman Brothers collapsed, according to an analysis by Deutsche Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n The producer-price index for May, a measure of inflation for domestic producers, is due at 8:30 am ET. Economists are forecasting an increase from the previous month.<\/p>\n While many markets have come under pressure this year, rising rates have had a particularly large effect on the shares of money-losing companies that were once pandemic darlings and other speculative bets. Higher interest rates on safe-haven assets such as government bonds tend to reduce the relative appeal of riskier investments \u2014 and the perceived value of future cash flows \u2014 while lifting corporate borrowing costs.<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t think we’re going to see anything like a V-shaped recovery,\u201d Rick Pitcairn, chief investment officer at Pennsylvania-based multifamily office Pitcairn, said of the stock market. “The way we’ll rebuild will be in a more muted way \u2014 it won’t be right back to the high-speculation stocks.”<\/p>\n In premarket trading, business-software firm Oracle jumped more than 13% after reporting a rise in quarterly sales that beat analysts’ expectations, driven by its cloud-computing division. <\/p>\n Overseas, the pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 edged down 0.3%. Shares of French IT firm Atos plunged 27% after its CEO resigned and the company said it plans to spin off its big data and security division. <\/p>\n In Asia-Pacific trading, Australian stocks led losses after the market reopened following a holiday. The S & P \/ ASX 200 index in Sydney erased 3.5%, its <\/strong>biggest one-day drop in percentage terms in more than two years. <\/p>\n The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index edged down 0.1%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.3%. <\/p>\n The Japanese yen was flat, hovering close to the weakest level to the dollar in 24 years, which it reached on Monday. <\/p>\n Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency, remained under pressure after selling off sharply in recent days. It traded at about $ 22,725 on Tuesday, losing another 2.3%. It is down 67% from its last record high. <\/p>\n In commodities, Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, gained 0.6%.<\/p>\n Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com<\/p>\n Photo: Copyright \u00a9 2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US stock futures edged higher, pointing to a partial rebound for major indexes after the S&P 500 closed in a bear market for the first time since 2020. Futures tied to the S&P 500 gained 0.5% after the broad-market index tumbled 3.9% on Monday. Nasdaq-100 futures climbed 0.7%, suggesting a rise in technology stocks after …<\/p>\nShares in Asia remained under pressure on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
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