📊 A High-Stakes Week for Markets The Fed, Big Tech earnings, U.

📊 A High-Stakes Week for Markets

The Fed, Big Tech earnings, U.S. inflation data and the Bank of Japan will all set the tone in the same week. With AI spending concerns growing and inflation rising again, the market reaction could be unusually broad.

🖱️ Fed: Rates are expected to stay at 3.75%-4.00%. A hawkish signal from Kevin Warsh or expectations of a December hike could pressure stocks.

🖱️ Big Tech: Alphabet and Microsoft, worth roughly $8 trillion combined, are expected to report about $128 billion and $90.6 billion in revenue. AI spending, cloud growth and monetization are key.

🖱️ AI trade: Amazon, Intel and Sandisk will offer more evidence on AWS growth, chips and memory demand.

🖱️ U.S. data: Headline PCE is expected at 3.6%, core PCE at 3.1% annually, and Q3 GDP growth at 3.2%. Hot inflation could revive rate-hike fears.

🖱️ Japan: The BOJ is expected to hold its 1.25% rate, but a surprise could strengthen the yen and pressure markets through the carry trade.

With the U.S. midterm elections also days away, strong earnings and cooler inflation could support stocks. Hot inflation, a more hawkish Fed and weak AI results would point the other way.

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