AI CEOs Call for a Slowdown, First Fed Hike in 3 Years?
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Why does the market see a 90% chance of a Fed rate hike this week?
Public.com presents the rundown, your daily market update in 10 minutes. My name is Zayd Mani, and today is Monday, September 14th. In today's episode, we'll tell you why the market is pricing in a 90% chance of a Fed rate hike this week. Also, breakdown why top AI CEOs are calling for a slowdown in AI development. And the impact that's having on the markets. Then stick around to the end of the show to find out why Tesla is gaining EV market share in the US while selling fewer cars. We got a great show for you today. Okay, let's go. Markets are coming off a down week despite a surprising bounce on Friday. On Friday of last week, the SP and NASDAQ both climbed nearly 1%, despite the hotter than expected CPI report.
We broke down that report on Friday's show, so go check that out if you missed it. But despite that rally on Friday, it wasn't enough to save the week. All three major indices finished in the red. And that brings me to this week where I think the macro factors will continue to drive the market. The oil prices continue to rise. Brent crude is hovering near $108 a barrel after Saudi Arabia shut down their east-west oil pipeline after multiple attacks. That pipeline can move roughly 7 million barrels a day. And it was Saudi Arabia's main way of bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. So with that pipeline being shut down, along with all the disruptions happening in the Strait of Hormuz, that's gonna continue to reduce the supply of oil in the market, which is why prices are going back up.
Meanwhile, you have the 10-year treasury yield hovering right around 4.97% and getting really close to that psychological 5% mark. So the macro story is still the main focus right now. And all that sets the stage for the main event this week, which is the Fed meeting. On Friday of this week, we will find out if the Fed decides to keep interest rates unchanged or actually go through with a rate hike. And at this point, the market is convinced the Fed Fed will be hiking rates, the odds of a rate hike are up to 90% as of this morning. Now, if you're a daily listener, you know that I thought the Fed was gonna hold off on hiking rates for at least one more meeting, but the market clearly doesn't think so.
And there are a few factors why. For one, the CPI report in August showed that inflation was up 3.4% year over year, thanks to higher energy prices. And the key number from that report was that core CPI in August. August was up 0.3% month over month. Core CPI strips away energy and food prices because they tend to be volatile. But the fact that that's going up 0.3% is a sign that higher energy prices are now bleeding into other sectors of the economy and driving up costs. And with the situation in the Middle East and oil threatening to stay in the triple digits, the Fed might not have a choice but to hike rates to slow down the economy to try to cool off inflation. We'll see what the Fed decides to do this week and how the markets react.
Many Wall Street analysts still think the stock market bull run will continue despite the rate hike. The analysts point to strong corporate earnings and all that AI investment. Now we'll see if the AI investments continue. We'll talk more about that in a second. Things aren't off to a great start this week. I'm looking at the tape in the pre-market, and man, there's a lot of red right now, especially in tech stocks. So it should be a very interesting week. We're gonna be staying on top of all of it. So if you're new here, definitely get subscribed to the podcast if you haven't already and tune in every day to stay in the loop. Let's run through some headlines. And today we're talking about AI doomerism because this is the story driving the tech sell-off today.
Over the weekend, some of the biggest names in AI came out and said that we need to slow down AI development. This all started on Saturday when Anthropic CEO Dario Amade published a 3,800-word essay saying the AI industry needs to slow down the development of cutting-edge AI models. Before something goes seriously wrong.
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