Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures climb with more bank earnings, rate cuts in focus

Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq climb as strong bank earnings, rate-cut hopes soothe US-China jitters

US stocks rose on Wednesday amid hopes for interest-rate cuts, with more Wall Street banks posting strong results in a promising start to earnings season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) moved up roughly 0.4%, following a rocky session on Tuesday for markets. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added…

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Gov. Walz to join farmers to talk on impact of tariffs on Minnesota soybean farmers

Gov. Walz to join farmers to talk on impact of tariffs on Minnesota soybean farmers

Gov. Tim Walz will join farmers Wednesday in southern Minnesota to highlight the local impacts of tariffs. Minnesota’s top agricultural export is soybeans, but President Trump’s recent tariffs on China are causing purchases to plummet.  For soybean farmers in the U.S., China is a top export market. Last year, the country purchased over $12 billion worth…

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Fed balm soothes trade war jabs

Fed balm soothes trade war jabs

By Mike Dolan -What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Edgier world markets appeared to bat away the latest testy exchanges in the re-heated U.S.-China trade war, helped by dovish soundings from the Federal Reserve boss that included signals about an imminent end to its balance sheet…

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