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Wall Street just saw its first two-day selloff in a month, but the weakness was nowhere near as intense as it was in Asia, where stocks in Japan tumbled 7% and Singapore suffered its biggest loss in a year.
Despite all the confusion about whether the Federal Reserve is or isn’t close to curtailing its stimulus program, U.S. investors once again showed the willingness to buy off the lows, with stocks finishing with only modest declines.
Wall Street is nothing short of resilient, says Jason Weisberg, Managing Director of Seaport Securities.
“This market has absorbed every negative headline that’s been thrown at it,” said Weisberg. “Whether its geopolitical, economic, corporate earnings, domestic politics, terrorism, the threat of a nuclear strike by North Korea, every negative headline that this market could possibly see has been thrown at it and it has shrugged every headline off that’s been negative time and time again.”
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard may have helped. Speaking in London, he said he doesn’t think the Fed is “that close” to withdrawing stimulus.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) was upgraded at Jefferies, and nearly a dozen Wall Street firms raised price targets on the stock one day after the tech company raised its outlook for the year. HPQ shares surged 17% to their best close in just over a year.
After the bell, a net loss at music streaming company Pandora (P) was in line with forecasts, and the revenue outlook for the current quarter is above forecasts. As for its customer base – user growth was 35% above year-ago levels.
On the economic calendar: new home sales. Purchases jumped 2.3% in April with the median price of a new home surging to a record high above $271,000.
Meanwhile, applications for jobless benefits reversed a prior gain. The data coincides with the week the Labor Department takes the survey used for the monthly jobs report.
Not all the data was upbeat, though. Manufacturing activity hit a preliminary seven-month low this month, according to financial data firm Markit.
In European action, stocks were down 2% across the board. Reasons cited: fear of a pullback in stimulus by the Federal Reserve, and weak manufacturing data out of China.
Article By WallStreetDaily.com
Original Article: U.S. Market Shrugs Off Setbacks