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US stocks wavered Tuesday in volatile trading as Wall Street continued assessing the AI jitters that have hammered markets in recent weeks.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.1%, recovering from steeper losses, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shed roughly 0.1%. Moving the other way, the blue chip-heavy Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), which includes fewer tech names, hovered above the flatline.
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After a break for Presidents Day, AI concerns continue to simmer. Investors are on the lookout for the next potential victim after fresh worries about AI's ability to upend industries hit stocks in sectors from wealth management to transportation to logistics. The Dow and S&P 500 have fallen in four of the past five weeks amid that pressure.
This week, earnings season enters its final stretch. Results from Constellation Energy (CEG) are in focus for signals on how AI's power demand is changing the energy business, with Medtronic (MDT) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) also on Tuesday's docket. But the week's highlight is Walmart's (WMT) quarterly report on Thursday, the first since the retail giant joined the trillion-dollar market cap club.
Elsewhere in corporates, Paramount Skydance (PSKY) stock rose over 5% on Tuesday following the news that Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has given the studio one week to come back with a better offer. Warner Bros. rejected the latest bid from the Hollywood studio.
The holiday-shortened week also brings a flurry of economic readings delayed by the partial US shutdown. The December print of the Personal Consumption Expenditures index due Friday is in focus after the latest consumer inflation report came in cooler than expected.
An advance look at fourth quarter GDP, also on Friday, should provide an economic health check amid an ongoing debate about the pace of interest-rate cuts this year. Before that, minutes from the Federal Reserve's policy meeting in January will also feed into those calculations, as questions swirl around a purported "loyalty pledge" signed by Kevin Warsh, Trump's pick for the next Fed chair.LIVE15 updates
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Oil prices fall as Iran says it has reached 'general agreement' with the US
Oil prices fell Tuesday after Iran announced it had reached a "general agreement" with the US on a potential nuclear deal that would lift some sanctions on the Iranian regime.
Futures on Brent crude (BZ=F), the international pricing benchmark, fell by 0.6% to trade below $67.50. Those on the US pricing benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CL=F), lost 0.9% to change hands around $62.25.
In comments to state TV, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said, “We were able to reach a general agreement on a set of guiding principles, based on which we will proceed from now on and move toward drafting a potential agreement."
Iran's leadership has spent the past month in talks with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. The news is seen as lowering the risk of a military conflict between the two countries, which would apply an immediate risk premium to oil prices.
Iran largely controls the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping chokepoint that sees roughly 20 million barrels of oil traverse its waters every day. Any moves to restrict access to the strait, or attacks against infrastructure in the region, would push oil prices much higher as buyers priced in longer and slower shipping routes and a drop-off in Middle Eastern supply.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian leadership said Tehran would partially close the strait for several hours due to military drills, according to Bloomberg. The move comes as the US has steadily built up its naval armament in the region, sending a second aircraft carrier to the region late last week. The US Maritime Authority advised ship captains in early February to avoid Iran's territorial waters if possible, for fear of potential interference or forcible boardings.
Yet despite seeming progress toward a deal the X account for the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, posted several comments disparaging US involvement in Iran's energy industry.
"The Americans say, ‘Let's negotiate over your nuclear energy, and the result of the negotiation is supposed to be that you do not have this energy!'" the X account posted early Tuesday morning.
"If that’s the case, there is no room for negotiation; but if negotiations are truly to take place, determining the outcome of the negotiations in advance is a wrong and foolish act." Today at 3:01 PM UTC
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BofA: Corporate profits rise while labor income falls, 'fueling K-shaped economy'
Corporate profits are rising while labor income keeps falling, a sign that so-called "K-shaped" movements in the economy are continuing, analysts for Bank of America wrote on Tuesday.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the analysts wrote, an increasing amount of economic data has pointed toward an uptick in productivity. However, the economic gains from that productivity seem to be aggregating in corporate profits, while wages steadily fall.
This split between profits and income is consistent and being reinforced by the rally in financial as well as real assets, which are more concentrated among higher- and middle-income households," the analysts wrote. The dichotomy in the data also "begs the question of whether these are real improvements in labor productivity.
"It remains to be seen whether wages and salaries recoup some of their lost ground relative to corporate profits," the analysts wrote. "But for now, higher profits relative to wages are yet another driver of a K-shaped economy, as higher-income consumers tend to be more exposed." Today at 2:37 PM UTC
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US stocks open Tuesday on mixed footing
US stocks opened Tuesday's session split, as the tech sector continued its downturn i…