Morgans AM: - Wednesday, 11 September 2024

US equity markets mixed ahead of the first presidential debate later this morning AEST and inflation figures tonight AEST - Dow eased -93-points or -0.23%. JPMorgan Chase & Co shed -5.19% to be the biggest decliner in the 30-stock index after president Daniel Pinto, speaking at a Barclays financial services conference in New York, tempered full-year net interest income (NII) expectations for the largest US bank by assets. The current forecast of US$91.5B in 2024 was, he said, “not very reasonable” in light of the Federal Reserve’s impending interest rate cuts. Goldman Sachs Group Inc fell -4.39% after chief executive David Solomon warned investors at the same conference a day earlier that the investment bank’s trading business was on track to see revenues fall about 10% in the third quarter due to a “more challenging macro environment, particularly in the month of August”. Boeing Co lost -1.74%, with Reuters reporting that the aircraft manufacturer had informed its suppliers that it now expects MAX production to reach 42 planes per month in March 2025, compared with its prior estimate of September 2024. Apple Inc, which unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled iPhone on Monday (9 September), lost -0.36% after the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) overturned a lower court ruling on Irish tax breaks for the tech giant.