Its another big day today of u. S. Earnings. Alibaba and ford all report before the market open. All eyes will be on google and amazon. Of course people are still talking about the fed press release from yesterday. The Federal Reserve not showing its hand that its wavering over whether to hike rates this year. In its policy statement the fed says it will still be patient. That word patient is still there in raising rates and is upbeat on the u. S. Economy setting solid growth and strong job gains. The fed says that while pressures are holding down inflation, mainly oil prices those are intensifying. Its optimistic prices will move back toward its 2 target. Wilfred . Thanks. Lets look in in the markets and were in the red today and really its been risk off sentiment thats transferred through different time zones and no particular region has been able to buck that trend over the last 48 hours. You can see the stoxx 600 down. 7 and its been a really steady decline throughout the course of
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