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Morgan Stanley named Eli Gross and Simon Smith as new global co-heads of investment banking, as part of a leadership shakeup at the top of one of Wall Street’s most powerful deals advisory group. The current investment banking heads, Mark Eichorn and Susie Huang were elevated to executive chairs of the division to lead a newly formed group of senior bankers, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release June data from the closely watched Consumer Price Index (CPI) today, which tracks the prices of a basket of daily goods and services. Investors use the CPI as one way to measure inflation, which has hit a 40-year high this year and forced the Federal Reserve to become increasingly hawkish in terms of monetary policy. While CPI data comes out every month, the reading will be watched more closely than normal, as are the current high levels of inflation.
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America has decided the pandemic is over. The corona virus has other ideas. The latest omicron offshoot, BA.5, has quickly become dominant in the United States, and thanks to its elusiveness when encountering the human immune system, is driving a wave of cases across the country. The size of that wave is unclear because most people are testing at home or not testing at all. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past week has reported a little more than 100,000 new cases a day on average. But infectious-disease experts know that wildly underestimates the true number, which may be as many as a million, said Eric Topol, a professor at Scripps Research who closely tracks pandemic trends. Antibodies from vaccines and previous coronavirus infections offer limited protection against BA.5, leading Topol to call it “the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen.”
MARKETS:
- S&P 500: 3,818.80, down 0.92%
- Dow Jones Industrial Average: 30,981.33, down 0.62% (192.51 points)
- Nasdaq Composite: 11,264.73, down 0.95%
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