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9:31 am: Stocks open lower as Powell takes cautious tone
Stocks opened in the red on Wednesday following cautious remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The Dow shed 122 points for a loss of 0.5%, while the S&P 500 lost 0.2%. The Nasdaq Composite bucked the trend to rise 0.15%. – Stevens
9:29 am: Powell knocks down idea of negative interest rates
9:27 am: Powell says recovery may come 'more slowly'
"There is a growing sense that the recovery may come more slowly than we would like, but it will. And that may mean that it's necessary for us to do more," Powell said. – Stevens
9:20 am: Powell says economy will 'substantially recover'
"It will take some time to get back to where we were. I have every reason to think we can get back there. The economy should substantially recover once the virus is under control," Powell said. – Stevens
9:18 am: Powell says unemployment rate will likely peak in the next month or so
"In terms of getting back, I would say that probably over the course of the next month or so, unemployment will peak. And then as we return to more normal levels of economic activity, it's a reasonable expectation that unemployment will start to decline again and it may decline sharply. But it's also likely to remain well above the levels that we saw earlier this year and all through 2019 and 18, which were 50-year lows in unemployment," Powell said. The unemployment rate jumped to 16% in April, topping the post-war record of 10.8%. – Stevens
9:15 am: Market reaction to Powell
Stock futures turned negative following the release of Fed Chair Powell's remarks. Dow futures were last down 15 points. The 10-year Treasury yield declined by 4 basis points to 0.65%. Gold jumped by 1% and the U.S. dollar declined versus major currencies. - Melloy
9:10 am: Powell says biggest future response may have to come from Congress
While the Fed continues efforts to prop up the economy, Powell said that the biggest future response may need to come from the government. "Additional fiscal support could be costly, but worth it if it helps avoid long-term economic damage and leaves us with a stronger recovery. This tradeoff is one for our elected representatives, who wield powers of taxation and spending," he said. - Cox
9:03 am: Powell says more policy help may be needed to pull the US out of economic downturn
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said more measures likely will be needed to pull the economy out of its current downturn. "While the economic response has been both timely and appropriately large, it may not be the final chapter, given that the path ahead is both highly uncertain and subject to significant downside risks," Powell said in prepared remarks for a webcast event with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. - Cox
8:52 am: Druckenmiller says he doesn't like the way the market is set up
Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller told the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday night that stock market is historically overvalued and that the market is overreacting to news of progress on potential virus treatments, like Gilead's remdesivir. "The risk-reward for equity is maybe as bad as I've seen it in my career. The wild card here is the Fed can always step up their (asset) purchases," Druckenmiller said, according to the organization's Twitter account. — Pound
8:45 am: Uber debt offering continues high bond market activity
Uber announced on Wednesday morning that it is planning to sell $750 million in senior notes, continuing a torrent of major debt deals during the pandemic. Ride share rival Lyft announced the pricing of a $650 million convertible debt offering on Tuesday. Other recent debt announcements include Disney, PayPal and General Motors, with $25.7 billion of investment grade debt hitting the market on Monday alone. — Pound, Domm
8:43 am: J.C. Penney is in talks for $450 million loan
Troubled retailer J.C. Penney is in talks with lenders to secure $450 million in financing for a possible bankruptcy filing, people familiar with the situation told CNBC. The financing would require the retailer to hit certain goals to receive the second half of the loan. A bankruptcy filing could come as soon as Friday, although that timing could still be delayed, according to one source. Once worth billions of dollars, the stock now trades at just 20 cents. – Hirsch, Stevens
8:41 am: US producer price index drops more than expected in April
A measure of underlying U.S. producer prices fell more than expected in April as the economy reeled from restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus. The U.S. producer price index dropped 1.3% last month, more than the 0.5% decline expected by economists polled by Dow Jones. The reading came after data on Tuesday showed consumer prices dropped by the most on record in April. – Li
8:16 am: Buybacks slow to record low pace
Bank of America said in a note that buybacks by its clients are down 35% year-to-date and that the second quarter is on track to be the lowest total on record. Share repurchases by Bank of America clients have generally tracked total S&P 500 buybacks over the past decade."Buybacks remained extremely anemic, with QTD buybacks tracking just over $1bn — on pace for a record-low ~$2bn quarter in our data history," the note said. —Pound
8:01 am: Grubhub could fetch $75 a share in Uber takeover, says Barclays
News broke that Uber Technologies approached Grubhub with a takeover offer, sending Grubhub shares soaring nearly 30% on Tuesday. Barclays expects the potential deal to value Grubhub at $75 per share, nearly 25% upside from Tuesday's close of $60.39 per share. The bank said the move would combine two of the biggest players in the meal-delivery business at a time when the industry faces "significant tailwinds" amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Now is the right time," Barclays analyst Deepak Mathivanan said in a note on Wednesday. "The food delivery industry has seen significant tailwinds over the past few months during the COVID-19 pandemic, with volume growth ranging from 70-100%." –Li
7:52 am: Powell appearance likely to focus on economy, negative rates
The market will hear Wednesday morning from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who is expected to address the weakening national economy and the potential for negative interest rates. Powell will appear at 9 a.m. on a webcast with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Though it's not clear if the events are connected, the appearance was scheduled just after futures traders last week began making bets that the Fed's benchmark overnight interest rate would go negative by the end of the year. Powell and other Fed members have repeatedly pushed back on the kinds of negative rates that are prevalent in much of Europe and in Japan. – Cox
7:50 am: Big Tech rises in the premarket
Shares of the biggest tech companies all traded higher in the premarket Wednesday, a day after they rolled over and pressured the broader market into a sharp decline. Facebook gained about 0.5% before the bell along with Amazon and Apple while Netflix shares advanced 0.9%. Google-parent Alphabet rose 0.8% and Microsoft traded 0.5% higher. These stocks have been among the best performers since the S&P 500 hit a bottom on March 23. —Imbert
7:40 am: Stock futures rebounding
Stock futures were higher, rebounding from Tuesday's losses as big technology shares including Microsoft gained in premarket trading. The big event traders are waiting on is Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's virtual speech at 9:00 am ET. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 450 points on Tuesday. But Dow futures were higher by 148 points Wednesday morning. -Melloy
– CNBC's Jeff Cox, Jesse Pound, Lauren Hirsch, Patti Domm and John Melloy contributed reporting.
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