Fed decision, Apple union vote, Kroger earnings top week ahead

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce another interest rate hike this week as it looks to tame scorching-hot inflation. 

U.S. stocks sank on Friday after consumer inflation jumped 8.6% to a 40-year high and consumer sentiment sank to an all-time low as tracked by the University of Michigan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 880 points or 2.7%, while the S&P lost 2.9% and the Nasdaq Composite 3.5%. For the week, all three of the major averages fell between 4.6% and 5.6%.

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 31392.79 -880.00 -2.73%
SP500 S&P 500 3900.86 -116.96 -2.91%
I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 11340.024421 -414.20 -3.52%

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Comcast’s Facing a Tough Streaming Decision

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has an opportunity to bolster its Peacock streaming service, but it would come at a potentially significant cost. The media division of the company still licenses some of its top TV titles to Hulu. While Comcast owns a minority stake in Hulu, Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) operates the streaming service.

Early next year, Comcast has an opportunity to remove much of its content from Hulu and offer it exclusively on Peacock, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Doing so, however, could negatively impact the value of Hulu, of which it’s unlikely to sell its share in until 2024.

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Trouble taking flight

Peacock has struggled to find much of an audience relative to its peers. Peacock had 20 million monthly active accounts as of July, and management said it added a few million more in the third quarter. Keep in mind, Comcast

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Comcast’s Rural Broadband Enlargement Carries on with Supplemental Investment decision in Preston County, WV | State

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Comcast these days introduced it is appreciably upgrading and increasing the achieve of its network serving Preston County, West Virginia and will pass somewhere around 470 rural properties and companies with 31 miles of new fiber development to deliver broadband provider to its present video-only prospects in the Rowlesburg place and new prospects to the north and east.

On completion of the job by Drop 2022, household prospects will have accessibility to all Xfinity services, like Xfinity Internet Net Essentials for qualifying reduced-money people at $9.95 per month the award-profitable Xfinity X1 video platform Xfinity Residence Xfinity Voice and Xfinity Cell. Firms in this area will be capable to get the full suite of Comcast Small business goods and companies, like Ethernet community speeds up to 100 Gigabits-for every-next.

Comcast finished a similar expansion to its Bruceton Mills assistance region in northern Preston

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Inventory futures trade cautiously in advance of Fed policy final decision

U.S. equity futures are little transformed forward of the Wednesday buying and selling session and the summary of the Federal Reserve’s coverage conference.

The meeting may possibly give clues on what lies forward with its enormous aid for marketplaces.

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The Fed’s plan final decision will appear at 2 p.m. ET.

A pair of economic knowledge points for buyers to take into consideration will be released in the morning.

The Commerce Division is expected to say that the variety of new residences staying built in May rose a little bit to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.63 million, soon after falling much more than envisioned in April to 1.569 million. 

Permits for foreseeable future construction are anticipated to edge down to 1.730 million in

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