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By Oliver Gray
Investing.com – U.S. stock futures fell during Sunday’s evening deals, after major benchmark averages finished the week lower following the U.S. Federal Reserve’s widely anticipated 75 basis point rate hike as market participants brace for fresh consumer price index data as well as congressional midterm elections.
By 6:40pm ET (11:40pm GMT) were down 0.6%, fell 0.7% and were down 0.9%.
Ahead in the week, investors will be closely monitoring fresh CPI data for October, with seen rising 0.7% month-on-month, while is expected to lift 0.5% over the previous month. Speeches from FOMC members , , and the Fed’s will be watched for clues into the central bank’s path of interest rate increases, in addition to and data.
Among earnings, companies including Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:), Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ:) and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (NASDAQ:) are scheduled to report results as earnings season begins to wind down.
During Friday’s trade, the added 402 points or 1.3% to 32,403.2, the gained 50.7 points or 1.4% to 3,770.6 and the lifted 132.3 points or 1.3% to 10,475.3. For the week, the Dow fell 1.1%, the S&P 500 dipped 2.9% and the NASDAQ lost 5%.
On the bond markets, rates were at 4.154%.
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