(Finance) – Wall Street started on the upside in the last session of the week, while the wait for the moves of the Federal Reserve which, on September 18, will announce a rate cut, but it is not yet clear whether it will be by 25 or 50 basis points.
Keeping investors divided on the Fed’s decision are some macro data, such as the Subsidy requests to unemployment, the trend of producer prices and also that of theinflation general.
Staying on the macroeconomic front, the import prices fell more than expected in August, the biggest decline since December 2023.
Among US indices, the Dow Jones advances to 41,211 points; on the same line, theS&P-500 advances fractionally, reaching 5,610 points. Without direction the Nasdaq 100 (+0.1%); along the same lines, almost unchangedS&P 100 (+0.13%).