For Tesla stock, who needs robotaxis when you have interest rates?Tesla stock was down to start trading on Friday after an epic gain on Thursday.Shares of the electric vehicle maker were off 1.8% at $239.

Investors poured $33.8 billion into U.S. stocks in the past week, with funds collecting the third-largest weekly haul since 2022, according to TD Securities. Global equities also saw inflows, snapping two-weeks of outflows,

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Suzanne McGee and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) -An initial muted market reaction following the Federal Reserve’s first rate cut in four years gave way to a surge in U.S. stocks as uncertainty ebbed and investors digested the implications of easing monetary policy.

Stocks jumped Thursday morning as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s eye-popping half-point interest rate cut.

FedEx stock was falling sharply in premarket trading Friday after the company reported worse-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings.The economy just isn’t helping, and there is a troubling shift happening which shows why the Fed just cut benchmark interest rates.

Rate cuts have usually been a positive catalyst for the stock market, though there have been exceptions to that rule. Here's what investors should know. The federal funds rate is a benchmark that influences other interest rates throughout the economy.