Inflation today, taper tomorrow

All eyes will be on the Jackson Hole Symposium today as there are impending discussions set to take place about Fed’s monetary policy decisions. A vast majority of Economists are giving a hint of when the Fed will start implementing asset purchasing. Moreover, which will have a huge impact on the markets themselves. 

Investors remain focused on the current inflation rate which has been stable the last two months at 5.4%, however with the PPI figure released last month at 1% overshooting the forecast by 0.4% the inflation rollercoaster may not be over just yet. The transitory phase that the Fed keeps on referring to may last a lot longer than they anticipate.

US futures had very little movement over the last 2 days as the impending uncertainty takes hold of the Nasdaq, Dow Jones and S&P 500.

Yesterday’s movers:

• Nikola Corporation (NKLA) was down 4.19%
• Autohome Inc(ATHM) was down 3.96% surprisingly after earnings and revenue beat expectations
• Lyft Inc (LYFT) was up 3.69% as it follows Airbnb’s lead with improved economic conditions
• Guardant Health (GH) was up 3.55% 
  

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Stocks to watch:

American Express (AXP)

American Express credit card metrics got released at the beginning of the week which laid firm the strength as the delinquency rate and net write-off rate stayed stable. The small business write-off rate improved over the last two months from 0.6% to 0.5%.

The credit card company’s previous earnings that were released the prior month came out substantially higher than expected as earnings and revenue were higher than forecast for the 2nd quarter of the year. 

The share price rallied yesterday gaining just over 3% for the day, American Express is currently up 0.25% in pre-market.

Price came down well as profit-taking came into effect prior to the credit card data being released. Yesterday saw a strong move to the upside as the price attempted to get over the 50EMA on the timeframe. A break of the trendline and a close above $169 should see a price rally to the 132.6 or 161.8 Fibonacci levels.