Stocks fall on prospect of Fed rate hikes in 2022
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Stocks were broadly lower Friday after a Federal Reserve official said that the nation's central bank might need to raise interest rates as early as next year, sooner than the Fed's latest estimate of possible rate increases in 2023.
The S&P 500 index fell 0.8% as of 1:12 p.m. EST. Every sector in the benchmark index fell, with the largest declines coming from banks and technology companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 397 points, or 1.2%, to 33,425 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.5%. The S&P 500 is on pace to end the week down 1.4% while the Dow is down more than 3%. The Nasdaq is holding onto a slight gain for the week.Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.