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Stock futures dip as investors look to economic data, Fed speeches
Stock futures traded lower Thursday, building on the losses from the previous session, as rate and recession fears dented market sentiment.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 224 points, or 0.7%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures shed 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively.
Wall Street is coming off a losing session. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.56% on Wednesday for its worst day since Dec. 15. The Dow shed more than 613 points, or 1.81%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.24%, snapping seven-straight days of gains. Bank stocks such as JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo slid, weighing on the broader market.
Disappointing retail sales and a weaker-than-expected producer price index reading ignited recession fears, sending stocks lower.
On Thursday, investors will weigh more economic data that could give further clues as how much the Fed may raise interest rates in its upcoming meeting. Initial jobless claims, housing starts and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s manufacturing survey will be released in the morning. Several central bank leaders including Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard will also speak throughout the day on the path forward.
Investors have been parsing through the latest data and Fed remarks for clues on how high rates will go. But, while recent numbers point to easing inflation, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon thinks rates will top 5%.
“I think there’s a lot of underlying inflation, which won’t go away so quick,” Dimon told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Investors will also be watching key quarterly reports to see if there is an earnings recession brewing. Netflix and Truist Financial are among companies reporting earnings on Thursday.
Kimmel faces backlash, others praised for powerful speeches
There were a lot of standing ovations throughout the night during the 74th Emmy Awards for incredible moments like Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph’s powerful speech, in which, she belted out a song, and when actress Selma Blair took the stage to present the award for Outstanding Drama Series. However, one person spent part of the night doing the total opposite of standing.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel was dragged out onto the stage by actor Will Arnett, before he announced the winner for Best Writing in a Comedy Series – Abbott Elementary creator and writer Quinta Brunson. As Brunson took the stage, she peered down at Kimmel, saying “Jimmy, wake up. I won. Jimmy?” However, Kimmel committed to his bit, laying right at the base of the mic stand throughout her entire acceptance speech without budging.
Fortunately, Brunson didn’t mind it too much as she proceeded to give her acceptance speech and later told the press backstage, “I don’t know. I know Jimmy Kimmel. The bit didn’t bother me. Honestly, Jimmy gave me my first big late night spot, he was one of the first people to see Abbott Elementary. He was the first person to message me on Instagram. He was so excited it was going to be on ABC. I was happy it was Jimmy. He’s one of the comedy godfathers. Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him.” Brunson will be Kimmel’s guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night, so, to be determined whether or not she changes her mind on what she really thinks about his antics.
However, viewers did not take kindly to Kimmel’s bit and even took to Twitter Monday night with scathing tweets:
Of course, the rest of the night’s winners did not have to accept their awards with a passed-out human at their feet. In fact, the night was filled with some very powerful and emotional speeches. Here is Yahoo Entertainment’s guide to the highs, lows and head-scratchers of this year’s Emmy awards.
HEAD-SCRATCHER: Kenan Thompson’s opening dance to remixed beloved TV themes
Last year’s first Emmys back in-person opened with Cedric the Entertainer enlisting LL Cool J, Dave “Lil Dicky” Burd and Rita Wilson to do a TV-themed version of the 1989 favorite “Just a friend.”
While Thompson didn’t bust out his vocal skills, he did bust out some moves as he danced to some of the best TV theme songs from Friends, The Brady Bunch, Stranger Things, and Game of Thrones.
While some viewers were asking why Thompson decided to remix the beloved Friends theme song, others were thoroughly entertained.
HIGH: Sheryl Lee Ralph belting out a song before delivering an epic speech
When the Abbott Elementary star took the stage to accept her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, the first thing that came out of her mouth was the lyrics to Dianne Reeves’s 1993 song “Endangered Species.”
“I am an endangered species/ But I sing no victim’s song/ I am a woman, I am an artist/ and I know where my voice belongs,” belted Ralph, who then launched into a powerful speech as she stated, “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your treatment wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like and don’t you ever, ever give up on you, because if you get a Quinta Brunson in your corner, if you get a husband like mine in your corner, if you get children like mine in your corner, and if you’ve got friends like everybody who voted for me, cheered for me, loved me. Thank you.”
Everyone there in the theater and at home watching were blown away by Ralph’s empowering speech and moment, which was easily the biggest and best highlight of the night. Some even called it “The best Emmys award speech in history.”
HIGH: More powerful and emotional acceptance speeches from Lizzo and Zendaya
Rapper Lizzo, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Competition Program for Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls, got emotional Monday as she shared, “First of all, I’m very emotional, and the trophy is nice but my emotion is for these people who are on the stage with me. The stories that they shared, they’re not that unique, they just don’t get the platform telling stories. Let’s just tell more stories. When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me.”
Later in the night, Zendaya won her second Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy award for her incredible performance in Season 2 of Euphoria, and eloquently shared, “My greatest wish for Euphoria was that it could help heal people and I just want to say thank you to everyone who shared their story with me. I want you to know that anyone who has loved a Rue, or feels like you are a Rue, I want you to know that I am so grateful for your stories and I carry them with me and carry them with her. Thank you so much.”
LOW: Winners’ speeches being abruptly cut off
A few of the winners pointed out how once they hit the stage they only had 30 seconds to give their acceptance speech, but when The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge accepted her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie, the veteran actress was rudely cut off by not one but two walk-off tunes. “Wait. Hold on. Wait. Hold on. Wait, hold on… okay,” said Coolidge as she ultimately accepted her cut off and hilariously started dancing to the upbeat song telling her to wrap it up.
The audience laughed and cheered as Coolidge was, well, Coolidge.
HIGH: So many fun, surprise cameos!
While most of the night’s presenters were announced ahead of time, a few A-listers surprised the audience Monday night like the Queen of Media herself, Oprah Winfrey, who presented the Lead Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie award to Michael Keaton for Dopesick, former Voice judge and music superstar Kelly Clarkson who presented Zendaya with her award, Selma Blair who presented the big award of the night – Outstanding Drama Series to Succession, and former SNL comedian Pete Davidson who made his first big public appearance since his split from Kim Kardashian.
Davidson provided some laughs before presenting the award for Outstanding Comedy Series to Ted Lasso, when he took the time to praise his former SNL cast member Kenan Thompson and joked, “This is just like SNL because Kenan is doing all the work and I’m refusing to say what the writers want.”
However, maybe one of the most exciting surprise cameos of the night was the Good Burger reunion between Thompson and his former co-star Kel Mitchell, likely to promote a possible Good Burger 2 sequel, which Thompson recently teased.
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards aired Monday, September 12 on NBC.
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Trump blasts ‘insane’ Biden after primetime address
Former President Donald Trump insisted that President Biden “must be insane, or suffering from late-stage dementia” for his attack accusing him and his MAGA supporters of being “a threat” to the country.
“Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump, 76, wrote soon after Biden’s Thursday night attack.
“If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America!”
The 45th commander-in-chief also warned of a possibly dark undercurrent in his successor’s speech, in which Biden spoke in front of a military band while repeatedly saying he “will not stand by and watch” Trump and his supporters return to power with their “extreme ideology.”
“If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech tonight, he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force,” Trump insisted in a second response on his Truth Social network.
“He must be insane, or suffering from late-stage dementia!” he wrote of Biden, who turns 80 later this year.
Biden’s speech Thursday at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall — an official, taxpayer-funded event ignored by most TV networks — came just days after he accused Trump’s backers of supporting “semi-fascism.”
On Thursday, he insisted that “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … And that is a threat to this country.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) later insisted that Biden was the one waging an “assault on democracy.”
“Instead of trying to bring our country together to solve the MANY problems he has created, President Biden has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans — simply because they disagree with his policies,” McCarthy also tweeted.
“Mr. President: you owe millions of Americans an apology.”
Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufman also insisted that Biden’s attacks were the type only “used by authoritarian regimes.”
“The sitting president trying to turn his political opponents into an enemy of the state,” he said in a statement.
Noting how Biden had vowed to unite the nation, Kaufman said that instead, “all he’s done is consistently divide our nation further.”
Biden’s desperate attacks come as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, confirmed to Sky News in an interview that aired Friday that the ex-president is “obviously thinking” about running again in 2024.
“He hates seeing what’s happening in the country,” said Kushner, who was one of his father-in-law’s chief advisers in the White House.
“With Trump, it’s hard to rule anything out,” he said.
Screen Actors Guild Awards Televised, In-Person, Red Carpet, Teary-Eyed Speeches
The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards will kick off with a “Hamilton” reunion, feature a lifetime achievement award for Helen Mirren and, maybe, supply a preview of the upcoming Academy Awards.
The SAG Awards, taking place at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, begin at 8 p.m. EST Sunday and air on both TNT and TBS. (The show will also be available to stream Monday on HBO Max.) After the January Golden Globes were a non-event, the Screen Actors Guild Awards will be Hollywood’s first major, televised, in-person award show — complete with a red carpet and teary-eyed speeches — this year.
While the Academy Awards aren’t mandating vaccination for presenters (just attendees), it’s required for the SAG Awards, which are voted on by the Hollywood actors’ guild SAG-AFTRA. One actor in the cast of the Paramount series “Yellowstone,” Forrie J. Smith, has said he won’t attend because he isn’t vaccinated.
“Hamilton” trio Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs will open the ceremony. Kate Winslet is to present the actors’ lifetime achievement award to Mirren, a five-time SAG Award winner.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, right, composer and creator of the award-winning Broadway musical, Hamilton, offers a message of gratitude after receiving a standing ovation at the end of the play’s premiere held at the Santurce Fine Arts Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
A starry group of nominees — including Will Smith, Lady Gaga, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman and Ben Affleck — will make sure the SAG Award don’t lack for glamour.
Five films are nominated for the SAG Awards’ top honor, best ensemble: Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Sian Heder’s coming-of-age drama “CODA,” Adam McKay’s apocalypse comedy “Don’t Look Up,” Ridley Scott’s high-camp “House of Gucci” and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s family tennis drama “King Richard.”
Placards representing actors are pictured at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards Media Preview Day, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The SAG Awards will be held on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
The leading Oscar nominee, Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” failed to land a best ensemble nominations but three of its actors — Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee — are up for individual awards.
Winning best ensemble doesn’t automatically make a movie the Oscar favorite, but actors hold the largest sway because they constitute the largest percentage of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Last year, the actors chose Aaron Sorkin’s 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” while best picture at the Oscars went to “Nomadland.” The year before, SAG’s pick of “Parasite” presaged the Oscar winner.
In the television categories, Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” comes in with a leading five nominations, closely trailed by HBO’s “Succession,” Apple’s “The Morning Show” and Netflix’s much-watched “Squid Game” — all of which are up for four awards.