A day of euphoria, a historic day with a triple double (intraday record and closing record)... and at the best possible time, just 48 hours before the "3 Witches".

Since the beginning of May, it's been obvious that the slightest pretext for seeing the glass as half full is used to euphorize the markets... and if good economic news is lacking, then bad news is appreciated even more, as it fuels speculation about a rate cut.

On Wednesday, Wall Street was reassured by US inflation: the annualized rise in consumer prices slowed in April, by 0.1 points to 3.4% on a gross basis and by 0.2 points to 3.6% on an underlying basis (excluding energy and food products).

In other session data, the New York Fed's Empire State manufacturing activity index came in at -15.6 in May, compared with -14.3 last month, and US retail sales were flat on a sequential basis in April.

Wall Street's three major indices thus smashed intraday and closing records, both of which were very close to each other as the session ended almost at the zenith (within 0.1%).

The Dow Jones gained 0.9% to 39,908 (from a high of 39,935), the S&P500 gained 1.2% to 5,308 (almost 1% above the previous record set on March 28) and the Nasdaq Composite soared 1.4% to 16,742 (from a high of 16,750).750).

In addition, the Nasdaq-100 soared 1.5% to 18,596 (from 18,607), in the wake of AMD +4.3%, KLA +4.1%, Applied Materials +3.7%, Nvidia +3.3% to $941 (closing record) which saw its capitalization soar to $2.350Bn...

Microstrategy (Bitcoin's first private holder) jumped 15.9% to $1,503, in the wake of BTC's 8% rise, testifying to a roaring return of risk appetite.

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