Stock market news today: Stocks wobble as investors evaluate Fed minutes
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Stock market news today: Stocks waver as investors evaluate Fed minutes
Here's what's moving markets on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
U.S. stocks zigzagged between small gains and losses Wednesday as investors pored over minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting earlier this month.
The latest readout from the U.S. central bank's Jan. 31- Feb. 1 gathering indicated officials were intent on proceeding with "ongoing increases" but open to reaching an endpoint later this year.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) teetered up 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) turned negative. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was a modest 0.3% higher.
"Participants concurred that the Federal Open Market Committee had made significant progress over the past year in moving toward a sufficiently restrictive stance of monetary policy," the minutes said.
"Even so, participants agreed that, while there were signs that the cumulative effect of the Committee's tightening of the stance of monetary policy had begun to moderate inflationary pressures, inflation remained well above the Committee's longer-run goal of 2% and the labor market remained very tight."
Discussions also reflected that most members favored the smaller 0.25% increase delivered during the latest policy decision but some in the group preferred raising rates by 50 basis points.
Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester admitted in a speech last week she would have favored the more sizable hike but officials did not want to surprise the markets, which were pricing in 0.25%.
"The worst of inflation may be in the rear view but it remains well-above the Fed’s target," Mike Loewengart, head of model portfolio construction at Morgan Stanley's Global Investment Office said in a note. "Bottom line is that many market headwinds aren’t going away and investors should expect volatility to stay as they parse over the impact rates being higher for longer will have."
Earlier in the day, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard in a televised interview with CNBC said the U.S. central bank must bring the federal funds rate to a range of 5.25% to 5.5% in order to bring inflation back down to its 2% target.
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