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Stocks Slightly Higher as Bond Yields Decline

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The S&P 500 ($ Spy) (SPY) has increased today +0.07 %, which is the Dow Jones Industries ($ DOI) +06 %, and Undel Nasdaq 100 ($ IUXX) (QQQ) rising +0.10 %. June-Mini S & P (ESM25) +0.10 % futures increased, and the NQM25 contract increases in June (NQM25) +0.11 %.

Today’s stock indexes are slightly higher, with most of the margin investors before the results of the FOMC meeting for two days later on this afternoon. Expectations are that the Federal Reserve maintains not to change interest rates, and the markets will focus on the federal reserve points plot, the latest expectations for growth, unemployment and interest rates. Post -FOMC meetings will be dissected by the Federal Reserve Chairman Powell to obtain evidence of the intentions of the Federal Reserve in the future. The stock indicators maintained modest gains after the unemployed demands in the United States decreased as expected, although the bond revenues have declined from the United States’ weakest news expected from May and construction permits. The T -Note returns for 10 years -2 basis point to 4.36 %.

The gains in stocks are limited to geopolitical risks, as fighting between Israel and Iran entered on the sixth day on Tuesday without any signs of mitigation. A meeting between President Trump and the national security team has strengthened speculation that the United States is about to join Israel’s attacks on Iran after President Trump called for “Iran’s surrender”. The United States has announced a meeting today with the commander of the Pakistani army, a major ally of Iran, to discuss mediation. Iran has not showed any signs of retreat and the intention to respond by force if the United States will directly participate in Israeli attacks.

To date, there has been no closure of the Hormuz’s biological strait, which deals with about 20 % of the world’s daily crude charges, although the navigational signals of more than 900 ships moving across the strait were disrupted due to “severe jamming” of the signals from the Iranian port of tolerance, which caused a collision from two doors on Tuesday.

Mortgage requests in the United States decreased by -2.6 % a week on June 13, with a mortgage index decreased by -3.0 % and low mortgage index by -2.1 %. The average firm mortgage decreased for 30 years -9 basis points to 6.84 % from 6.93 % in the previous week.

Initial unemployment demands in the United States of the weekly decreased from 5,000 to 245,000, directly over expectations.

American housing news today was weaker than expected. The beginning of housing -9.8 % m/m to the lowest level of 5 years at 1.256 million, weaker than 1.350 million expectations. Building permits, a future construction agent, have decreased unexpectedly by -2.0 %/m to the lowest level at 4-3/4 years at 1.393 million, and weaker than non -change expectations at 1.422 million.

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2025-06-18 14:00:00

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