Yesterday’s tech stock rally evaporates this morning

Yesterday’s tech stock rally evaporates this morning

Yesterday’s rally in technology stocks and the NASDAQ Composite has disappeared this morning. At 12:30 New York time the NASDAQ was off 1.6%; the Technology Sector Select SPDR (XLK) was down 1.72%; and individual technology stocks were also in the red. Amazon (AMZN), for example, was lower by 1.58%; Nvidia (NVDA) was down 3.57%; Apple (AAPL) had retreated 1.58%; and Facebook had lost 1.16%.

Yesterday IMF gave up on Trump reflation trade; today financial markets say, Not  yet

Yesterday IMF gave up on Trump reflation trade; today financial markets say, Not yet

Yesterday the International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for U.S. economic growth to 2.1% for 2017 (from 2.3%) and to 2.1% in 2018 (from 2.5%.) The fund had included a likely infrastructure spending bill and a tax cut/tax reform package in its earlier forecast. Now the IMF ha removed those potential stimulus actions from its forecast. The IMF also poured cold water on assumptions in the draft administration budget for economic growth of 3% in 2021.