• Fed meeting, FOMC dot-PLOT, Powell Conference Conference will be focused this week.
• NVIDIA’s GTC Conference provides a promising opportunity for a company to show its top technology and a chance of growth, making it supplies to consider shopping.
• Nike’s expected earnings report, along with its constant challenges, could make it for sale supplies.
The US shares gathered on Friday, declining from steep losses seen during the week, as the escalating trade war of President Donald Trump encouraged the fears of the recession and a torn risky mood.
Even with a bounce on Friday, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite have reached their fourth weekly losses. The S&P 500 decreased 2.3%, while Tech-Teški Nasdaq fell 2.4%. Dow fell 3.1% for its worst week in two years.
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The Blockbuster Week is expected to have an event filled with several events moving on the market, including the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve Monetary Policy.
The US Central Bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but Feda Jerome Powell’s President could offer hints of when a rate could start when he spoke at a press conference after the meeting.
With a policy update, the FED will publish new three-month screenings of DOT for interest rates, unemployment and inflation. The markets are currently expecting the Fed to wait by June to reduce the rates again, according to the Fed.com Fed.com monitor.
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Meanwhile, in the economic calendar, the most important thing will be on Monday a report on retail sale on Monday, which will throw extra light on the health of the economy.
Somewhere else, on Dokkets earnings, there is only a handful of corporate results, including Nike (NYSE: NKE), Fedex (NYSE: FDX), Micron Technology (NYDAQ: MU), Lennar (Nysse: Len), General Mills (Nyse: Gis in Clors (NYSE) and CCLS. headquartered in China, including PDD Holdings (Nasdaq: PDD), Tencent (Otc: Tcehy), Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) and NIO (NYSE: NIO).
No matter what direction the market goes, below I emphasize one stock that is likely to be demand and the other that could see the fresh side. Remember, however, my time frame is only For the week ahead, Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21st.
Nvidia (NVDAQ: NVDA) should host its expected GPU (GTC) technological conference, which is likely to show its latest progress in generative AI, accelerated computer science, large language models, robotics and more.
The NVIDIA GTC Conference has historically been a positive catalyst for the company’s shares, with the shares outnumbered by the Philadelphia semiconductor index in the week around the GTC for the last five years.
The four -day event, which was published as a “world top AI conference”, will start on Monday from the San Jose Congress Center, California, and contain over 1,000 sessions, 2,000 speakers and almost 400 exhibitors. The company expects 25,000 students and 300,000 participate in practically.
Most of the center of attention will fall on the main speech of executive director Jensen Huang on Tuesday at 1:00 pm EST. According to the description, Huang will divide that Nvidia rapidly launched the next wave in AI, digital twins, cloudy technologies and sustainable calculation.
Analysts predict that Nvidia will discover their GB300 AI chip, which could start delivery in May. Furthermore, the other key members of NVIDIA’s leadership team will be expected to discover the fresh details about the expected launch of the GPU of the next gene, Rubin, 2026.
This year, the conference also includes a dedicated ‘Quantum Day’ on Thursday, with a potential discovery of new quantum computer development on the agenda.
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The NVDA shares ended on Friday at $ 121.67, earning Santa Clara, California AI Diva, a $ 2.97 trillion market cap. The shares have been reduced by 9.4% from the beginning of the year due to the growing skepticism about whether the AI boom can justify the celestial estimates.
Despite the recent decline, consensus among analysts is extremely bull, with most of the purchase or overweight grades. Analysts see 41.8% of the potential of an increase with a medium purpose of $ 172.50.
On the other hand, Nike prepares to publish their earnings on a fiscal third quarter in February at 16:15 ET on Thursday. Despite the arrival of the new executive director, Elliot Hill, in October, was aimed at leading the turn, things did not look for giant sportswear.
Market participants expect significant momentum in NKE’s shares after printing, with the option of the option to indicate a possible 9% move in any direction. The analytical mood is largely with 23 audits down and without adjusting upwards in the weeks that preceded the report.
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Nike is expected to publish an annual drop of 39% of adapted earnings per share at $ 0.30, and it is predicted that revenue will be reduced by 11% compared to the period from the year to $ 11 billion.
Looking in advance, it is my belief that Nike’s managers will disappoint investors in their year -round guidelines and hit a cautious tone for falling sales in North America, as well as poor demand in China.
Nike is a proven brand that is subjected to a necessary but painful transition. Athletic clothing and shoes clashed with weak revenues for several quarters, swollen stocks and increased brands like Holding (NYSE: Onon) and Deckers’ (Nyse: Deck) Hoka.
Hill implements strategic resetting, focusing on sports innovations, not life products, but this transition will take time.
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NKE section – which fell to the lowest level of $ 2025 of $ 70.81 on February 7th – closed on Friday at $ 71.66. According to its current estimation, a company based in Beaveveton, based in Oregon, has a $ 106 billion market border. The stocks are reduced by 5.3%.
It should be noted that Nike currently has a “fair” total financial health rating with a grade of 2.5 out of 5.0 due to constant concerns due to the growth of opponents and weakening of gross profit margin.
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Detection: At the time of writing, I have long been on S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 via SPDR® S & P 500 ETF (SPY) and Invesco QQQ Truist ETF (QQQ). Also long on Invesco Top QQQ ETF (QBIG), Invesco S & P 500 equal to the weight of ETF (RSP) and Vaneck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH).
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