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The stock market traded higher on Wednesday morning ahead of the Fed policy decision, while Microsoft released upbeat earnings.

The software sector has suffered a sharp pullback this year in the stock market. For the expected rebound, the most rapid sales growers may fit the bill.

The electric vehicle sector is pushing higher after a big earnings report from Microsoft appears to have helped overall market sentiment. Read more on EV stocks.

Nomura: Here Comes ''The Big One'' Authored by Charlie McElligott, Managing Director of Cross-Asset Strategy at Nomura, Pre-FOMC drift - but this time, thanks to a massive kick-save from Microsoft guidance which turned the entirety of global risk-assets from cratering lower in the after-hours trade last night to now, spasming higher into Fed later today (NQ +4.4% low to high) and with still substantial short Gamma vs spot out there for Dealer hedging purposes , as well as sharply netted-down exposure from Fundemental investors and outright shorts in CTA Trend.while conversely, we currently see a quiet Rates trade (we did see a buyer FVH2 in 5k / $254k / 01 of UST belly, as well as UPSIDE protection against a dovish surprise, e.g. FVH2 120C ppr pays 14-1.5 on 4kalthough later see more of the same momentum reloading back into large downside FVH2 119.5 / 119 PS ppr pays 13.5 on 25kand also a fairly largly buy of ED$ May Put Fly) However, the meat of the note today into the FOMC will touch-upon the potential that a no hawkish surprise or even dovish hawk Fed commentary (vs well-managed expectations) in-and-of-itself could see some of that recent downside Crash hedge buying get unwound, which then could set-off a +++ virtuous feedback loop spiral from Vol space into the Equities space, where exposure has been netted-down with violence on the fundamental / discretionary side, is at a historically low allocation from the Vol Control side, and of course is outright Short on CTA Trend This is going to come down to Jerome Semantics the main hawkish risks being the 1) balance-sheet conversations (potential to end QE a month early per Rob Dent, or mention possibility of selling MBS as part of the normalization process) and, in my eyes, 2) the FCI convo also risking disappointment for Equities folks looking for a sympathetic eyealthough I will say that with March liftoff already a certainty and with 4 hikes back to being fully priced-in for 22 as per FFF, hawkish surprise risks there are fairly limited here as it pertains to actual policy rate path Any modicum of dovish surprise / dovish hawk vs these already high and well-messaged hawkish expectations, however, then risks a momentum shock, disrupting a currently crowded trend friendly market, as per CTA positioning in 1) bearish / hawkish in Bonds and Rates along with the aforementioned 2) short Equitiesbut again, the local / tactical Equities upside catalyst on a dovish hawk message vs expectations would be the Vol space as catalyst the Equities virtuous feedback look, via Vanna- and Gamma- impacts from Client downside hedges being hammered & unwound (as Dealers then cover their futures short hedges and further squeezing stocks and hitting vol lowerrinse / repeat), then sling-shotting Equities higher The perverse thing is (and as mentioned yday) that the more bullishly that Equities- and Risk- trades, the more scope markets then have to price inn more hawkish Fed action down the pipei.

Microsofts stronger than expected guidance, has helped distract investors ahead of the looming Fed meeting. US futures Dow futures +1.06% at 34678 S&P futures +1.4% at 4423 Nasdaq futures +2.06% at 14465 In Europe FTSE +1.7% at 7512 Dax +2.4% at 15507 Euro Stoxx +2.5% at 4181 Nasdaq rallies on Microsofts stellar guidance The Nasdaq [] The post Nasdaq Roars Higher as Tech Earnings Impress, Fed Decision Due appeared first on Action Forex .

NEW YORK , Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for MSFT, BNTX, AMD, DDOG, and PENN. Full story available on Benzinga.com

Microsofts first big Windows 11 update arrives next month, with Android apps and taskbar improvements. Updates to Notepad and Media Player will also launch next month.

MSFT, TXN, BA and T all rallied on their quarterly results. Meanwhile, NAVI declined following its earnings announcement.

The stock market was looking for strong earnings from Microsoft, and the company delivered. The software giant''s outlook also is good news for its peers.

Microsoft''s (MSFT) second-quarter results and third-quarter guidance are indications that the digital transformation is still in tact and customers are making "strategic,

Dow Jones futures traded sharply higher Wednesday ahead of the Fed policy decision. Tesla earnings are due out after the close.

Microsoft''s stock was rising in premarket trading after the company delivered better-than-expected sales guidance for its fiscal third quarter.

Microsoft''s (MSFT) second-quarter earnings and third-quarter guidance, led by strength in Azure, shows that the tech-giant is "living up to the legend" and helped