Stocks and US equity futures reversed earlier declines on Monday as earnings expectations outweighed concerns about a possible recession.
S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose, while European stocks extended gains after their best week since May. China’s property shares pushed higher amid a report that officials plan a fund to support struggling developers. Investors are turning their focus to earnings of US big-tech companies as they await another Federal Reserve interest-rate hike of at least 75 basis points this week.
The Federal Reserve policy decision this week, along with earnings from the likes of Google’s Alphabet Inc. and technology titan Apple Inc., will help to clarify the outlook for a one-month-old rebound in stocks. Prices already reflect a lot of bad news, with the Nasdaq 100 down 24 per cent this year.
“We still see further downside for risky assets as recession fears accumulate and central banks remain committed to fighting inflation at the expense of growth,” wrote Eric Robertsen, chief strategist at Standard Chartered Bank Plc. In Europe, German business confidence deteriorated to the worst level since the early months of the pandemic on growing concerns that record inflation and limited energy supplies from Russia will throw Europe’s biggest economy into a downturn.
Elsewhere, wheat climbed as commodity markets evaluated a Russian missile strike on Odesa’s sea port that threatened to test a fledgling agreement to unblock Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea.Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta earnings due this weekEU energy ministers emergency meeting, Tuesday
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