Wall Street ended at Raise this Friday After an agitated session in which Dell Technologies fell and other technological values rose, and after the meeting between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, finished in a disaster.
The S&P 500 won 91.46 points, or 1.56%, to end at 5,953.03 points; While the Nasdaq Composite won 295.00 points, or 1.59%, at 18,839.42 units. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 600.06 points, or 1.39%, to 43,839.56 points. In the week, The S&P 500 dropped 0.98%, the Nasdaq sank 3.47%, and the Dow rose 0.95%.
In February, the S&P 500 dropped 1.43%, Nasdaq yielded 3.97%and Dow fell 1.6%. The Nasdaq suffered its worst monthly percentage decrease since April and its largest weekly decline since September.
PCE inflation data meet expectations
American inflation coincided with the rhythm of the previous month and slowed in annualized terms in January, while consumer spending contracted unexpectedly, presenting a confusing economic landscape for those responsible for the Federal Reserve policy considering the way to follow for interest rates.
The Personal Consumer Expenditure Price Index (PCE) rose 0.3% last monthaccording to data from the Office of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce on Friday. The figure was in line with the December rhythm, which was in itself the greatest increase since April 2024.
In the 12 months to January, PCE inflation decreased slightly to 2.5% from 2.6%, complying with economists’ estimates.
Without counting food and energy, the so -called basic PCE inflation stood at 2.6% year -on -year, which represents a deceleration with respect to the 2.9% of December and coincides with the forecasts. The initial December indicator stood at 2.8%.
Meanwhile, consumer spending, which represents a large part of the United States economic activity, fell 0.2% after an increased 0.8% rise in December. Analysts had planned a 0.2%increase.
What happened the Wall Street actions?
Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. saw its shares fall by 14.5% After informing that their fourth quarter, they did not meet the expectations of the analysts and offered disappointing forecasts for next year.
The Life Science Technology Company recorded a loss of US $ 0.22 per share in the fourth quarter, US $ 0.01 worse than the estimation of analysts of -0.21 dollars. And a fall in the gross margin adjusted in his fiscal year 2026.
The actions of Ani Pharmaceuticals, Inc. rose 13.6% when they were known that the pharmaceutical company announced benefits of the fourth quarter that exceeded the expectations of the analysts and raised their forecast for the whole year 2025 significantly above the consensus estimates.
Dell collapsed 7% after prognosis of the group that would register a fall in the gross margin adjusted in his fiscal year 2026.
Overwhelmed by the increase in the costs associated with the construction of its artificial intelligence servers, as well as the weak demand for its PC, Dell said that its adjusted gross margin rate would fall around 100 basic points.
HP also announced a softer guide for the current quarter, warning that US import tariffs would increase their costs, which caused their actions to fall more than 8%.
The greatest increases and casualties of the wheel
Among the actions that were most appreciated, Perrigo (+19.2%), Elastic NV (+14.9%), Sound Hound (+14.9%), Alignment (+14.5%) and Bitdeer (+12.8%).
While the most resigned value found, Double Verify (-37.2%), Dlocal (-31.2%), Acadia (-25.5%), Net App (-16.5%) and Duolingo (-16.5%)
Amazon presents a quantum chip that seeks to accelerate its commercial development
Amazon Web Services presented a prototype of quantum computing chip, Ocelot, who hopes to accelerate its advance towards a commercial quantum computer in up to five years.
(Quantum computing research studies the physical limits of information processing and is opening new paths in fundamental physics).
The chip uses “cat” cubits, named for Schrödinger’s famous mental experiment, to improve errors correction, an important obstacle in quantum computing.
AWS said the design allows a functional “logical” cubit from only nine physical cubits, one step towards the reduction of the huge cubits counts necessary for practical applications (the cubits are a special combination of about (1) and zeros (0). AWS joins their rivals Google of Alphabet and Microsoft when announcing recent advances in quantum computing Progress in the science of materials and the discovery of drugs.
Source: Ambito
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