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The Dow Jones accelerated into further losses, falling nearly 0.8%. Losses are concentrating in the Dow as investors second-guess Fed action. Continued declines in key health and tech stocks are further dragging the Dow lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) shed another 360 points at its lowest on Tuesday as losses accumulate in the key index and begin to gather speed. Investors have been chasing interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve (Fed) since last December, but now concerns of getting too much of a good thing are giving traders cause for a pause. The Dow recovered its footing toward the end of the US session, but still ended the day in the red by 270 points or -0.63%, chalking in a ninth straight losing session for the first time in half of a century. The Fed is broadly expected to deliver another quarter-point rate cut on Wednesday, bringing its target rate down to the 4.25%-4.5% range. The fed funds rate peaked at 5.0%-5.5% in July of 2023, and investors clamored for interest rate cuts to provide funding relief for 13 straight months before the Fed finally delivered a jumbo 50 bps rate slash in September and followed it up with another 25 bps rate trim in November. Now investors are second-guessing Fed moves on interest rates, and questioning whether the US central bank may be moving too fast, too far in the face of recent US economic data. According to the CNBC Fed Survey for December, some investors are beginning to pivot into an uncertain stance in the face of steeply-inflationary policy threats from incoming President Donald Trump. Roughly one-third of respondents noted that it may be time for the Fed to reassess its rate-cutting strategy.  Stocks initially rallied on the news of a decisive Trump election win,…

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Filed under: News - @ December 17, 2024 11:18 pm