# Dow futures rise, signaling bounce after worst week since October

What’s driving the market?

Last week’s Federal Reserve meeting unsettled markets, leading to a flattening of the yield curve as short- and medium-dated yields rose sharply and long-term yields fell, while the dollar soared and equities ultimately slid, though growth-oriented shares outperformed.

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“Given these extreme moves, one of the most important things this week will likely be Fed speakers responding to the meeting and subsequent market reaction,” said Jim Reid, macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, in a note.

“Make no mistake the market reaction was fairly extreme to what at the end of the day is a Fed that themselves suggest they are still around 2-1/4 years away from raising rates,” he said.

Stocks extended their slide Friday, with weakness attributed in part to remarks by St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, who said he thought the Fed should lift its benchmark interest rate as early as next year. Bullard isn’t a voting member of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee this year but will be in 2022.

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Investors will hear from several Fed officials this week, with Chairman Jerome Powell set to testify Tuesday before the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus.

On Monday, Bullard, Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan and Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker will be speaking at a forum that begins at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

New York Fed President John Williams is scheduled to deliver keynote remarks at a banking conference at 3 p.m.

“We will be eager to see whether Williams is as hawkish as Bullard on interest rates, and how soon does he anticipate the committee to start scaling back its bond purchases,” said Charalambos Pissouros, senior market analyst at JFD Group, in a note.

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Which companies are in focus?

• American Airlines Group Inc. AAL, which had boosted flying to meet soaring travel demand, is trimming some flights to alleviate potential strains on its operations. The number of flights being culled is relatively small, amounting to about 1% of planned flying in the first half of July, the company said. Shares were up 0.6% in premarket trade.

• Vivendi SE on Sunday reached an agreement for a 10% investment in Universal Music Group by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine Holdings 
  PSTH,
  -0.18%,
   valuing the world’s largest music company at about $40 billion. Vivendi shares were up 0.2% in Paris, while PSTH shares rose 1.1% in premarket action.

• LegalZoom.com Inc. set terms for its initial public offering, as the California-based online legal and compliances services company takes another shot at going public with a valuation of up to $5.2 billion. The company is looking to raise up to $516.3 million by offering 19.12 million shares in the IPO, which is expected to price between $24 and $27 a share, with the stock expected to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “LZ.”