CNBC Daily Open: Investors are playing a waiting game

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Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stops for a radical photograph with students from North Carolina successful Statuary Hall arsenic helium walks to his bureau astatine the U.S. Capitol connected May 15, 2023 successful Washington, DC.

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Washington's brinkmanship implicit the country's indebtedness ceiling continues for different day.

What you request to cognize today

U.S. stocks rose Monday arsenic each 3 large indexes closed somewhat higher. European markets traded mixed. The Stoxx 600 Index added 0.25% arsenic the European Commission raised its expectations for some ostentation and GDP maturation successful the EU this year.Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic doesn't expect the Fed to chopped involvement rates this year adjacent if there's a recession, helium told CNBC. On the contrary, Bostic said helium is inclined to "increase a small further arsenic opposed to cut" arsenic helium thinks "inflation has been persistently high."                                                                                      Striking a antithetic tone, billionaire hedge money manager Paul Tudor Jones said helium believes the Fed won't rise rates anymore due to the fact that "CPI … [has] been declining 12 consecutive months." Jones told CNBC that stocks volition apt "continue to spell up this year" arsenic the Fed pauses.European Union regulators approved Microsoft's $69 cardinal acquisition of gaming institution Activision Blizzard, taxable to remedies connected unreality gaming, a mode of streaming games connected the internet. Regulators said Microsoft volition let consumers to watercourse Activision games connected immoderate unreality gaming platform.PRO Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made changes to its banal portfolio, a caller regulatory filing showed. Among the highlights: It built a caller involvement successful Capital One Financial, sold disconnected U.S. Bancorp and accrued its holdings of Apple.

The bottommost line

Washington's brinkmanship implicit the country's indebtedness ceiling continues for different day, adjacent arsenic Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated successful a note Monday that the U.S. could default connected its indebtedness "as aboriginal arsenic June 1."

Still, determination were signs that advancement was being made. Yellen said, successful an interrogation with The Wall Street Journal connected Saturday, she's hopeful and was "told [lawmakers] person recovered immoderate areas of agreement." President Joe Biden, likewise, expressed optimism that a woody with Republicans to rise oregon suspend the indebtedness ceiling could beryllium reached.

However, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wasn't arsenic hopeful. He told NBC News that Democrats are not being superior astir negotiations. "It doesn't look to maine yet that they privation a deal," said McCarthy.

In short, the back-and-forth tussle remains. "It's benignant of a waiting game," said Globalt Investments' Keith Buchanan. "Each time that goes by, and each postponement, each time there's not a improvement … I deliberation it volition turn much and much hard for the markets to truly get immoderate traction."

Indeed, adjacent though large indexes each roseate Monday, they made lone insignificant moves. The S&P 500 added 0.3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.14% to drawback a five-day losing streak and the Nasdaq Composite roseate 0.66%.

We spot the aforesaid signifier of affirmative moves connected debased trading measurement successful determination slope stocks. For instance, Zions Bancorp jumped 8.5% and Comerica climbed 7.3%, though their trading measurement was beneath their 30-day average. That's not needfully a atrocious thing, of people — immoderate gains successful determination slope stocks volition beryllium invited news, amid uncertainty successful the sector.

One country that firm America seems much definite of is inflation. Only 278 S&P 500 companies mentioned ostentation successful their first-quarter net calls, according to FactSet data. "This is the lowest fig of S&P 500 companies citing 'inflation' connected net calls going backmost to Q2 2021," John Butters, vice president and elder net expert astatine FactSet, wrote successful a Monday note.

Biden volition conscionable legislature leaders contiguous to proceed talks astir the indebtedness ceiling. Investors are hoping U.S. lawmakers tin quell that lingering fear.

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