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Stocks are expected to open slowly on Monday because this week will bring a small number of earnings reports as well as new data on housing and other economic indicators. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 24 points, or less than 0.1%, at 6:15 p.m. ET on Sunday. The S&P 500 futures also fell 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite futures stayed the same. This week’s big earnings reports come from Steelcase on Wednesday, La-Z-Boy and Lennar Corp. on Monday, and KB Home and Lennar Corp. on Tuesday. On Thursday, Accenture, Darden Restaurants (parent company of Olive Garden and Longhorn…

Some of the pain of high inflation has been eased by a steadily growing economy and low unemployment, but Americans with middle- and low-incomes say they are under more stress. A drop in the consumer sentiment index to a seventh-month low in June was the most recent sign. The drop was mostly caused by more stress among Americans with middle- and low-incomes. It’s not a big surprise that the difference between how Americans see the economy is getting bigger. As the stock market has gone up, richer households have more money saved up, and their “paper wealth” has grown. Rich…

This weekend, Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” made a huge splash, ending Hollywood’s worries about summer movies. Studios say that the animated follow-up made $155 million from ticket sales in 4,440 theaters in the U.S. and Canada on Sunday. Not only is it the biggest opening weekend for an animated movie ever (after “Incredibles 2” in 2018 with $182.7 million), but it’s also the biggest of 2024 and the biggest since “Barbie.” “Inside Out 2” had an amazing and record-breaking $295 million global start, with about $140 million coming from showings in other countries. As the head of Disney…

LOS ANGELES— Some of the biggest names in Hollywood headlined a fundraiser for President Joe Biden that, according to his campaign, raised more than $30 million for a Democratic candidate. They did this to get people excited about what they called “one of the most important races in U.S. history.” On Saturday night, people like George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Barbra Streisand performed at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, which has 7,100 seats. Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night host, talked to Biden and former President Barack Obama. Both of them stressed how important it was to beat former President Donald…

OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland — On Sunday, almost 80 countries said that any peace deal to end Russia’s two-year war in Ukraine should be based on the country’s “territorial integrity.” However, some important developing countries at a meeting in Switzerland did not agree. It is still not clear how to move forward with negotiations. The joint communique was the end of a two-day meeting where Russia was not present because it was not invited. A lot of people there said they hoped Russia would join a plan for peace in the future. There has been a full-scale war since President Vladimir Putin…

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…