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Morning Watchlist: Jensen Huang Keynote, FOMC Meeting
Tom White
March 18, 2025
U.S. Stock Futures are modestly lower in premarket trading following two straight days of gains. The recent positive moves come despite yesterday’s retail sales data that hit below expectations, rising 0.2% last month versus expectations of a 0.6% gain. The core rate rose 0.3%, which was in-line with estimates.
Investor focus will turn to the Fed with the FOMC meeting starting today and the announcement on interest rates tomorrow afternoon. Also on tap today is a call between President Trump and Russia’s Putin on a potential ceasefire, which may add some volatility to markets.
Morning Movers
Snapshot (as of 7 AM ET)
Oil (/CL) – Oil prices are up over 1% to the $68 level.
Gold (/GC) – Gold is up around 1% after a new all-time high yesterday.
Bitcoin (/BTC) – The cryptocurrency is down around 2% premarket.
VIX – The CBOE Volatility Index has slightly below 21.
U.S. Dollar (/DX) – The dollar is flat around 103.
Biggest Premarket Movers
Symbol | Product | Mark % Change (as of 7 AM ET) |
|---|---|---|
RL | Ralph Lauren | +2.79% |
NEM | Newmont | +1.54% |
LIN | Linde | +1.24% |
TSLA | Tesla | -2.55% |
ETR | Entergy | -2.29% |
AVGO | Broadcom | -2.09% |
Economic Data
Time | Event |
|---|---|
8:30AM ET | Housing Starts/Permits Import/Export Prices |
9:15AM ET | Industrial Production |
11:00AM ET | Treasury Buyback Announcement |
1:00PM ET | 20-Yr. Bond Auction |
Earnings
Premarket | Postmarket | Premarket Tomorrow | Postmarket Tomorrow |
|---|---|---|---|
IHS, BEKE, TME, XPEV, ZKH | HQY, STNE, ZTO | GDS, GIS, KC, OLLI, SIG, TECHY, WSM | FIVE, YY, WS |
Upgrades/Downgrades
Goldman Sachs upgrades Ralph Lauren (RL) to Buy from Neutral
Keefe Bruyette upgrades Block (XYZ) to Outperform from Market Perform
Morgan Stanley upgrades Lucid (LCID) to Equal Weight from Underweight
Guggenheim downgrades Incyte (INCY) to Neutral from Buy
Barclays downgrades Pepsico (PEP) to Equal Weight from Overweight
UBS downgrades Paccar (PCAR) to Neutral from Buy
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