The news continues to confuse, as Wall Street contended with another volatile session. Investors mulled the Federal Reserve’s path of interest-rate hikes while assessing mixed economic data and a slew of earnings reports, whilst the ECB doubled official deposit rate, and Credit Suisse revealed their plans to revamp their business.
At the end of the day, the Dow closed higher on Thursday, as a rally in Caterpillar and Boeing cushioned the rout in tech after META delivered disappointing quarterly results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.61%, the NASDAQ was down 1.6% and the S&P 500 fell 0.55%. The S&P 500 closed lower, after swinging between gains and losses for most of the session.
The big news was Meta Platforms which fell nearly 25% after reporting third-quarter results that missed on the bottom line and were an “absolute train wreck,” according to Wedbush.
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