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Without a major catalyst to push market indexes to new levels higher, we might expect this sideways chop to continue.
The slight trim off record highs we saw before the opening bell turned into a full haircut today.
Headline job gains from BLS have come in at +147K -- above the consensus estimate of +110K and the upwardly revised +144K for May.
The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow), and Nasdaq Composite are all stock market indexes used to measure the performance of various aspects of the U.S. stock market. The indexes generally rise and fall together.
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The biggest potential headwinds have thus far missed the marketplace, and may have already blown past us.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq again leads the way in today's pre-market, up +213 points, +0.97%.
Pre-market futures are mostly flat to start a new trading week, already off early morning lows.
Only the small-cap Russell is up over the past five trading days, but the other indexes are approaching.
The Fed did not cut rates, as expected they wouldn't, and Fed Chair Powell said he saw +0.6% higher inflation expectations from the last time the Fed cut.