Inflation battle is ‘absolutely’ done

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Inflation battle is ‘absolutely’ done

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading on March 4, 2024 in New York City.

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Wall Street upThe

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buoyed by the latest inflation print. The

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climbed 242 points, while the

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eked out a 0.03% gain after spending most of the session in negative territory. Meanwhile, the yield on the 10-year

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, while

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dropped 1.6% after President

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said Iran may not ******* ******* if a cease-***** deal is reached.

Cisco job cutsShares of

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rose more than 5% in extended trading after the network gear supplier said it would

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. The company will take a $1 billion pretax charge to implement its restructuring program. It also announced better-than-expected quarterly results, despite a third consecutive quarterly drop in revenue. The beat was driven by subscription revenue from Cisco’s $28 billion

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. Before Wednesday’s close, Cisco shares were down 10% this year, while the Nasdaq was up about 14%.

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is

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for $35.9 billion in cash, combining iconic brands like M&Ms, Pringles and Cheez-Its under one roof. The move expands Mars’ snacking portfolio and comes amid a consumer pullback on spending and increased competition from private-label options. Kellanova,

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from

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last year, saw its net sales top $13 billion in 2023. “We buy businesses to grow businesses, and we look to grow for generations,” Mars CEO Poul Weihrauch said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.” Kellanova shares rose 7.8%

Cooling inflation

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, as expected, driven by housing costs, pushing the annual rate to 2.9%. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, increased 0.2% monthly for an annual rate of 3.2%. As inflation trends closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, speculation grows around a potential interest rate cut. The futures market anticipates a 25-basis-point reduction at the conclusion of the Fed’s September meeting and for rates to be a full percentage point lower than the current 5.25%-5.5% range by the end of 2024. However, Fed officials remain cautious about the timing and scale of future cuts. Here’s the inflation breakdown for July 2024 —

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Proxy fightActivist investor Elliott Management plans to launch a

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at

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, nominating up to 10 directors to its 15-person board. Elliott, which currently holds an 11% economic interest in the airline, intends to call a special meeting to push for changes. Elliott blames CEO Bob Jordan and chairman Gary Kelly for the decline in the company’s fortunes and has called on Southwest to oust them.

[PRO] Winning tradeDespite the promise,

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‘s AI investments are raising concerns due its high stock valuation, competition and uncertainties around profitability and integration.

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if Oracle’s AI spending fails to pay off.

The bottom line

Just like a meteorologist watching one storm cell pass and another arrive, markets appear to be permanently walking around with umbrellas up awaiting sunnier days. With the

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offering some relief, attention is now turning to the size of the Fed’s potential interest rate cut. 

“

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and the overall picture of core consumer price pressures is quite benign, and even reminiscent actually of the spring and summer of 2019 before the pandemic struck,” FWDBONDS chief economist Christopher Rupkey said.

“The flare-up in inflation from earlier this year is over,” Rupkey said, adding that while inflation isn’t completely gone, core consumer price pressures are mild. Rupkey expects Fed Chair Jerome Powell to give a “thumbs up” for a rate reduction at the upcoming Jackson ***** symposium. 

“Any Fed official waiting for a little more data to make the decision on whether to cut interest rates got it in spades this morning,” he said. “The risks for Fed officials at this point are more on the downside for the economy and labor markets rather than on the upside for inflation.”

Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, echoed similar sentiments about inflation, saying the ****** was “

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” done. 

“I’ve been predicting since the summer of 2022 that we get to 2% to 3% by the end of last year and early this year, and we’re basically there,” Yardeni told CNBC’s “

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.” “We think we’ll get to 2% by the end of the year.”

However, Yardeni pointed to geopolitical tensions, particularly between Russia, Ukraine, and the Middle East, as his primary concern, noting the recent

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“What’s going on between Russia and Ukraine and the tensions and conflicts in the Middle East, there’s a lot of geopolitical risk. You know the price of oil on Monday was up 3% on all this war talk about the Iranians about to ******* *******. And I think a lot of yesterday’s rally was because the Iranians said if the Israelis and ****** work out a cease-***** then they won’t ******* *******.”

Yardeni ******** optimistic about the economy, expecting a strong upcoming employment report. He forecasts a single, modest 0.25-percentage-point rate cut from the Fed this year, dismissing predictions of more aggressive cuts of 50-100 basis points.

As market watchers debate

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, CNBC’s Jeff Cox takes a closer look. 

— CNBC’s Samantha Subin, Alex Harring, Jeff Cox, Brian Evans, Jesse Pound, Tony Zhang, Ari Levy, Justine Fisher, Rohan Goswami, Leslie Josephs and Spencer Kimball contributed to this report.

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