Stocks moved slight lower in early trading Monday as investors prepared for a slew of retail sector earnings reports in the coming days and a major speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the end of the week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) were each down 0.1% in recent trading.
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Get ready for another big week for the stock market.
Investors are staring at a handful of catalysts on the radar this week, with a slew of fresh earnings reports and key signals from the Fed on the docket.
All could be influential in determining the path ahead for Fed rate cuts — a bullish catalyst investors have been waiting for all year.
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The Federation of Indian Coir Exporters Associations (FICEA) has urged the government to intervene to resolving the crisis that has arisen following the 50 per cent tariff imposed by the United States on coir imports from India.
FICEA chairman Roby Francis and secretary general Sajan B. Nair pointed out that the present crisis needed to be treated as an “emergency” as the sudden and steep tariff increase has severely impacted the competitiveness of coir products in the US market.
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