Wall Street advances as traders' bets rise for bigger Fed rate cut
Adobe tumbles after forecasting Q4 earnings below estimates
Boeing sells off as workers go on strike
Russell 2000 small cap index outperforms, up 2.5%
Indexes up: Dow 0.72%, S&P 500 0.54%, Nasdaq 0.65%
Updated with final closing prices, volume, weekly data
By Sinéad Carew and Shashwat Chauhan
Sept 13 (Reuters) -Wall Street's main indexes closed higher on Friday as investors honed in on the chance of a bigger interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve next week, with rate-sensitive small cap stocks outperforming.
Bets on the size of the Fed's cut have been volatile and were roughly even by late Friday. Expectations for a 50 basis point cut jumped to 49% from 28% on Thursday, according to CME's FedWatch Tool , which showed a 51% probability for a 25 basis point cut.
Former New York Fed President Bill Dudley said late Thursday there was a strong case for a 50-bps interest rate cut.
Reports in the Wall Street Journal and other media early Thursday said the Fed faceda difficult decision on how much to ease on Sept. 18.
"There's just rumblings that have started to bubble up again that the discussion in the Fed is leaving 50 basis points on the table," saidJim Baird, chief investment officer with Plante Moran Financial Advisors, Southfield, Michigan.
In contrast, bets on Thursday that the Fed would opt fora smaller 25-bps cut firmed after news of slightly higher producer prices and Wednesday's consumer prices data.
While the renewed hopes for a bigger cut were boosting large cap indexes on Friday the optimism seemed most evident in the Russell 2000 small cap index <.RUT>, which rose 2.5% on the day and 4.4% for the week.
Smaller companies are more sensitive to rate changes as they depend more on borrowed money and floating rate loans.
Baird argued that stocks appearedto show investor optimism that a 50 basis point cut would not indicate a coming recession.
"If investors were looking at this and saying they have to move quicker because they're behind the curve you wouldn't see risk assets like small caps rally," said Baird. "You're seeing some of the riskier areas of the equity market advance pretty strongly today."
Jason Pride, chief of investment strategy and research at Glenmede in Philadelphia, said Friday's gains likely stemmed from Dudley's comment about the case for a 50 basis point cut.
Also on Friday, asurvey showed U.S. consumer sentiment improved in September as inflation subsided, though Americans remained cautious ahead of the November presidential election.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 297.01 points, or 0.72%, to 41,393.78, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 30.26 points, or 0.54%, to 5,626.02 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 114.30 points, or 0.65%, to 17,683.98.
All three major U.S. benchmark indexes ended close to roughly two-week highs and logged solid weekly gains.
For the week the S&P 500 rose 4.02% and the Nasdaq climbed 5.95%, with both marking their biggest weekly percentage gains since early November. The Dow added 2.60% for the week.
Adobe ADBE.O finished down 8.5% after the Photoshop maker forecast fourth-quarter earnings below estimates.
And BoeingBA.N shares sank 3.7% afterits U.S. West Coast factory workers walked off the job early on Friday as they overwhelmingly rejected a contract deal.
Chinese e-commerce firm PDD Holdings PDD.O fell 2.4% afterthe Biden administration said it was moving to curb low-value shipments entering the U.S. duty-free under the $800 "de minimis" threshold.
Uber UBER.N shares rallied 6.4% afterthe ride-hailing platform said it would bring autonomous ride hailing to Austin, Texas, and Atlanta in partnership with Alphabet's GOOGL.O Waymo.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 5.54-to-1 ratio on the NYSE where there were 653 new highs and 27 new lows.
On the Nasdaq, 3,275 stocks rose and 1,026 fell as advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.19-to-1 ratio. The S&P 500 posted 60 new 52-week highs and one new low while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 116 new highs and 54 new lows.
On U.S. exchanges 10.15 billion shares changed hands compared with the 10.78 billion average for the last 20 sessions.
Reporting by Sinéad Carew in New York, Shashwat Chauhan and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Richard Chang
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