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Fed President Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed said on Sunday that it is a “reasonable prediction” that the Fed will wait until December to lower interest rates. On CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning, Kashkari said that the Fed’s most recent prediction is for only one rate cut this year, which is less than what many economists and investors had been expecting. ‘We’re in a very good position right now to take our time.’Neel Kashkari The answer from Kashkari to CBS News’ Margaret Brennan was, “It will really depend on the data.” “Right now we have a great…

Even though it wasn’t a close vote, the decision to accept Elon Musk’s huge 2018 pay package did get more shareholders involved. Shareholders decided on Thursday to reinstate Musk’s 2018 pay package, which included 300 million stock options with lots of incentives. The vote was needed because in January, a Delaware judge threw out the deal because there weren’t enough details given. Even though new information came out, Elon Musk added X and xAI to his list of businesses, and Tesla’s growth slowed, the second vote wasn’t that close. Tesla released the final vote counts on Friday. About 1.35 billion…

Recently, insiders bought a lot of shares in three real estate investment trusts. These stocks were in a sector that missed the recent market rise. The Vanguard Real Estate ETF, which is worth $60 billion, has only gained 2% since the end of 2022. In that time, the S&P 500 average has gone up 41%. It looks like commercial real estate has been hit from all sides. Prices are going down because of high interest rates, but there is still not much desire for office space. The possibility that the Fed might not cut rates quickly hangs over REITs. In…

The record-breaking rebound in U.S. equities is still being driven by big tech, not the Federal Reserve. This gives some investors faith that the market will be able to overcome worries about the outlook for interest rates and continue rising. After setting several record closing highs last week, the tech-heavy S&P 500 index SPX and the Nasdaq Composite COMP concluded Friday with strong weekly gains. According to FactSet data, the Nasdaq saw its biggest weekly rise since April 26 and the S&P 500 recorded its best week in over a month. During its WWDC developers conference, Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -0.82%…

The numbers: In May, the prices of goods brought into the U.S. from other countries dropped by the most since the end of last year. This is more proof that inflation may be slowing down again. There was a 0.4% drop in the import price index last month. According to polls done by the Wall Street Journal, nothing will change. It helped that petrol prices went down, but the government said that import prices still went down by 0.3% even when energy costs were taken out. After going down for a long time, the price of imports went up sharply…

The head of the Chicago Federal Reserve said Friday that the drop in inflation in May was a big step in the right direction. However, prices need to drop even more before U.S. interest rates can be lowered. When asked about the May consumer price index report, Austan Goolsbee said, “That was a very good number.” For the first time in almost two years, the CPI showed that prices did not go up last month. As the Fed ended a two-day meeting on Wednesday morning, the CPI was made public. The Fed also left a key short-term interest rate at…

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and start talks if Kyiv started pulling its troops out of the four regions Moscow annexed in 2022 and gave up its plans to join NATO. Kyiv doesn’t seem interested in such a deal because it wants to join the military alliance and has asked Russia to pull its troops out of all of its territory. Ukraine didn’t say anything right away about Putin’s idea. Putin said in a speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, “We will do it right away.” The leaders…

Tesla Inc. shareholders overwhelmingly approved CEO Elon Musk’s huge pay package late Thursday night. This was a big win for the electric vehicle maker, even if it was just symbolic, and it gave the company the green light to move its headquarters from Delaware to Texas. The vote on the pay package was only advisory and had no legal weight. In premarket trading on Friday, Tesla shares TSLA, -2.44% went up 0.8%. This comes after rising 6.9% in the last two sessions. After the results were read, Musk took the stage to cheers and chants of “Elon, Elon!” from the…

Shares of Apple Inc. gained a lot of ground this week, and that could keep up from here. If it lasts until the end of the day, the stock’s 7.7% rise so far this week will be the best in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA. This comes at a time when investors have been doubting Apple’s AAPL, -0.82% AI strategy for most of the year. Companies with catchy names, like Nvidia Corp. NVDA, +1.75% and Meta Platforms Inc. META, +0.11%, seemed like better bets on the AI trend because they were already making money from it. But Apple helped…

Even though there seems to be a rush of high-profile stock split announcements from companies like Broadcom Inc., Nvidia Corp., and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., management teams are usually taking their time before going to Splitsville. Birinyi Associates data shows that as of Wednesday night, 10 S&P 500 SPX companies had announced stock splits for the year. If the same number of splits are announced in the second half of the year, the index is on track for its busiest year of splits in almost 20 years. But executives are still much more patient with splits than they were in…