Wall Street: Inflation data burdens Wall Street – Nvidia shares lose

Inflation data weighed on Wall Street, with Nvidia shares declining as investors reacted to the readings, according to the Handelsblatt report. The transmission channel runs through the rates path: hotter-than-expected CPI prints raise expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep policy restrictive for longer, lifting discount rates and compressing valuations for long-duration growth equities. Nvidia, whose valuation rests heavily on expected future earnings from AI-related data center demand, is especially sensitive to this repricing, and it carries outsized weight in the S&P 500, so its decline transmits directly into index performance. The next key catalyst for traders is the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee meeting and the accompanying updated dot plot, which will indicate how many rate cuts policymakers still anticipate for the year.

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