Yahoo Finance Breaking News Reporter Jake Conley and Tech Editor Dan Howley join Julie Hyman on Morning Brief to discuss the state of consumer prices on the heels of the Consumer Price Index print released today. Prices rose 0.1% month over month and 3.4% year over year in July, and Core CPI — which excludes food and energy costs — rose 0.2% monthly and 2.5% yearly. All numbers matched economists' estimates.
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CoreWeave and Super Micro Computer earnings lifted AI-linked stocks, while cooling inflation reduced pressure on the Fed to raise rates

Aug 12 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened higher on Wednesday as investors assessed largely in-line inflation data, while upbeat earnings from some AI infrastructure companies provided

Stocks were rallying out of the gate on Wednesday after Wall Street shrugged off the latest inflation report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 101 points, or 0.2%. The S&P 500 was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.

US inflation eased for a second month in July, with consumer prices rising 3.4% from a year earlier, down from 3.5% in June, exactly as economists had forecast, a reading that hands neither side of a divided Federal Reserve fresh ammunition before next month's rate decision.View on euronews

Stock futures edged higher in premarket trading, with futures tied to the Nasdaq up almost 1%. “It’s a step in the right direction,” said Mona Mahajan, head of investment strategy at Edward Jones. There’s “no re-acceleration in inflation, which is what we’d want to see.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises on a key CPI inflation report. Nvidia partner CoreWeave soars on earnings.
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With CPI dropping at 8:30 AM and the Strait of Hormuz near shutdown, Wall Street faces a pivotal morning that could swing stocks sharply in either direction, and analysts at Deutsche Bank, Oppenheimer, Berenberg, and others are already repositioning ahead of the numbers.
US equity futures were edging higher pre-bell Wednesday as traders looked forward to the latest nati

S&P 500 futures climbed 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.7% before the morning's consumer price index release

Automakers are fairly stable in pre-market trading as traders are waiting on the CPI figures. At this point, the markets are waiting to get a read on inflation as well.
Meta Platforms (META) is set to go to trial in California federal court over claims that it made Fac

Consumer price index inflation data, out at 8:30 a.m. ET, may further dampen odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike in September following Friday's weak July jobs reports. S&P 500 futures are slightly higher ahead of the CPI inflation report, holding just off record highs despite inching lower on Monday and Tuesday. Wall Street expects the overall CPI to rise 0.1%, lowering the 12-month headline inflation rate to 3.4% from 3.5%, according to the Econoday consensus forecast.

By Mike Dolan Aug 12 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets It's inflation day stateside and an important moment for Federal

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By Diana Novak Jones Aug 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook

Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey's allegations that Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked and misled consumers about their safety. It will also address claims by 29 states that the company illegally collected and used children's data in violation of federal law.

Investors braced for fresh Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, which could alter the Fed's interest rate calculus.

U. S. stock futures moved higher ahead of closely watched July inflation figures, with investors looking for clues about how the data could influence Federal Reserve interest rate decisions over the coming months.

Stock futures were rising on Wednesday after cloud computing company CoreWeave, optical networking company Lumentum, and server maker Super Micro all reported solid quarterly results, breathing some life into the AI trade ahead of the July inflation report.

Futures tied to the the major U.S. stock indexes rose, while oil was up as the deadlock between the U.S. and Iran continued.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may be at a crossroads come the September FOMC meeting.
