The three major stock indexes are mixed, with the Nasdaq composite roughly flat after yesterday’s stumble. The S&P tech sector is up about 0.7%, with chip stocks rising. After climbing early in the session, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is slipping.<\/p>\n
The Fed is expected to keep rates steady when it announces its decision at 2 p.m. ET. Conversation at the central bank, however, is turning toward rate hikes<\/a> rather than cuts, as my colleague Nick Timiraos reports. (Warsh’s first press conference as Fed chairman is slated to start at 2:30. You can watch it here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Brent crude oil futures are paring gains, trading around $80 a barrel<\/a>, near their lowest level since the first few days of the Iran war. Still, assuming a deal to stop the fighting holds, oil exports and production will take months to recover<\/a>, the International Energy Agency said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three major stock indexes are mixed, with the Nasdaq composite roughly flat after yesterday’s stumble. The S&P…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,266464,66,306],"class_list":["post-743180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-risk-compliance","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}