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10.12.25 - 16:00
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Futures Flat With Fed Rate Cut, Oracle Earnings On Deck (ZeroHedge)
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Futures Flat With Fed Rate Cut, Oracle Earnings On Deck
US equity futures are flat ahead of a Fed meeting where a rate cut is assured (the only question is whether it will be hawkish or dovish) and Oracle results later. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures are unchanged, with Mag 7 stocks mixed in premarket trading (TSLA +0.5%, META -0.5%, AAPL -0.3%, NVDA -0.2%). Bond yields are mostly unchanged and the USD is flat ahead of the Fed. Commodities are mixed: oil added 0.2%; base metals are lower (copper -1.1%); silver added 0.6% this morning. It's a big day for capital markets, with SpaceX said to be moving ahead with plans for potentially the biggest IPO of all time and South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix exploring a possible New York share listing. US economic calendar includes 3Q employment cost index at 8:30am and the FOMC decision at 2:00pm.
In premarket trading, Mag 7 stocks are mixed (Tesla +0.3%, Nvidia +0.1%, Amazon -0.01%, Apple +0.08%, Microsoft -1.6%, Alphabet -0.7%, Meta -...
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10.12.25 - 09:18
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′Hating soccer is more American than apple pie′: the World Cup nobody wanted the US to host (The Guardian)
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Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and television studio.” Nobody could seriously doubt that. The USA had played in only two World Cups since the second world war and hadn't had a national professional league for a decade. And that meant there was a great deal of skepticism from outsiders, even after Fifa made it clear there would be no wacky law changes to try to appeal to the domestic audience: Would anybody actually turn up to watch?But there was also hostility in the United States. A piece in USA Today on the day of the draw told Americans they were right not to care...
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10.12.25 - 07:06
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Magnificent 7: Grünes Licht für Nvidia, Alphabet und Meta (Der Aktionaer)
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Der Magnificent 7 Index nähert sich allmählich wieder seinem Anfang November markierten Allzeithoch. Für Rückenwind sorgte zuletzt vor allem die starke Performance des aktuellen Index-Schwergewichts Alphabet. Doch auch die Aktienkurse von Nvidia, Apple und Meta konnten an den vergangenen Handelstagen wieder etwa Boden gut machen....
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