영어뉴스 공부하기 : Stocks notch weekly gains as Fed meeting looms

* stocks : 전체 주가(시황)

* weekly gains 주간 상승 (월요일 대비 금요일)

* notch 홈을 파서 기록, 기록하다 => record

* Fed meeting 금리 결정하는 Fed 미팅

* loom 떠오르다, 모습을 드러내다 (부정적)

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# U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday after a choppy session and a rocky week, as economic data and corporate earnings guidance both hinted at softening demand but also a resilient economy.
The Dow closed up but essentially unchanged. The S&P 500 gained a quarter of a percent, while the Nasdaq added nearly a full percent, as the tech heavy index notched its fourth straight weekly advance.
The Commerce Department's hotly anticipated personal consumption expenditures report or PCE, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, indicated cooling inflation - exactly what the central bank's interest rate hikes are intended to accomplish.

 

* chop : 칼질 => 잘게 썰다 

* choppy 잔물결 (올랐다 내렸다) = 등락을 반복하다

* seesaw : 왔다갔다, 시소타다

* fluctuate 오르락 내르락

* rocky 흔들흔들, 불확실한 = uncertain, unpredictable

* earnings guidance 실적 예상

* hint at = suggest 그런 가능성을 보여준다

* 안정적 healthy strong solid robust

* 불안, 침체 weak slow soft (<-> solid)

* softening = weakening 

* resilient = not willing to give up 오뚜기

* unchanged = flat 어제와 거의 변동이 없음

* essentially = basically = practically 사실상

* the tech heavy index : IT 기업이 대거 편입된 = the Nasdap

* The Commerce Department: 상무ㅜ

* personal consumption expenditures report 개인소비지출(지표)

*  gauge = measure

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# Ken Moraif, founder and CEO of Retirement Planners of America, called it another good sign ahead of next week's Fed policy meeting.

"I think that the economy is showing resilience. Inflation is probably going to start coming down here over the next few months. And so the combination of that is alleviating the fears that people have that the Fed is going to have to raise interest rates so high that they cause a bad recession. So it's starting to look more and more like maybe that soft landing could happen after all. You also have Europe where the winter that everybody thought w as going to come turns out, was a lot warmer. They're our biggest trading partner ; profits come from that. And if they don't have a massive recession, our companies should do better. So the picture is starting to look a lot better than all the doom and gloom that we were thinking a few months ago."

 

* 성장 grow - 외형 / 양적 / 덩치가 커짐

* growth-oriented 외형성장에 치중

* profit-oriented 수익성 중시

* 경제가 3% 성장 = GDP가 늘어났다 = product 생산량이 늘어났다 <- 소비 

* 소비 - 내수 & 수출 

* ahead of ~를 앞두고

* few 2~3 정도

* alleviate = ease 

* a bad case of flu 독감이 심하게 걸리다

* soft landing 연착률

* the picture = things = the situation 상황

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#  On the earnings front, credit card giant American Express jumped 10.5% on consensus beating results and an upbeat forecast. Rival Visa also reported better than expected quarterly results, easing worries of waning consumer demand, sending its shares up 3%.
Shares of Intel fell more than 6% after the chipmaker provided dismal earnings projections that were short of Wall Street estimates by about $3 billion. Shares of Chevron fell more than 4% after the oil giant posted record 2022 profit, but its fourth quarter earnings fell short of expectations.
Next week, a raft of high profile earnings reports are expected, notably from Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta Platforms, which will test a recent bounce for tech and mega cap stocks.

 

* earnings 숫자가 나오는 실적 => 실적이라는 개념 performance

* front  측면, on the earnings front 실적이라는 측면에서 보자면 = on the earnings-wise = in terms of the ~ 

* on = based on ~ , on the back of ~  때문에, 힘입어

* consensus = agreement 애널리스트들이 일치된 의견을 보이다 (증권가의 일반적인 예상)

* upbeat = positive 

* wax and wane 달이 차다(wax) / 기울다(wane)

* projectios 실적예상(전망)

*  post = notch 기록하다

* record 2022 profit  2022년 사상최대의 영업이익을 올렸다

* a raft 뗏목(래프팅) => 여러개, a raft of 다수의 

* high profile : 사람들의 관심을 받고 있는 

* keep a low profile : profile = public attention 사람들의 관심 => 있는 듯 없는 듯 

* maga cap stocks 초대형 주식

* cap = capitalizaton 시가총액

* mega / large / mid / small cap 초대형주/대형주/중형주/소형주

* test : 시험대에 오르다