ASX set to rise as Wall Street advances; Boeing slumps after Air India tragedy
US stock indexes are drifting following another encouraging update on inflation.
The S&P 500 was 0.3 per cent higher in afternoon trading and sitting less than 2 per cent below its record. The Dow Jones was up 61 points, or 0.1 per cent, in mid-afternoon trade, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3 per cent higher.
The Australian sharemarket is set to rise, with futures at 5.01am AEST pointing to a gain of 46 points, or 0.5 per cent, at the open. The ASX lost 0.3 per cent on Thursday.
Oracle pushed upward on the market after jumping 13.8 per cent. The tech giant delivered stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, and CEO Safra Catz said it expects revenue growth 'will be dramatically higher' in its upcoming fiscal year.
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That helped offset a 4.6 per cent loss for Boeing after Air India said a London-bound flight crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday with 242 passengers and crew onboard. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a residential area near the airport five minutes after taking off. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known.
Online banking services company Chime Financial jumped 46 per cent shortly making its trading debut on the Nasdaq.
Stocks were broadly getting some help from easing Treasury yields in the bond market following the latest update on inflation. Thursday's said inflation at the wholesale level wasn't as bad last month as economists expected, and it followed a report on Wednesday saying something similar about the inflation that US consumers are feeling.
Wall Street took it as a signal that the Federal Reserve will have more leeway to cut interest rates later this year in order to give the economy a boost.
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