Morgans AM: Friday, 23 September 2022

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US equity markets retreated amid mounting concerns that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy will tip the economy into a recession - Dow fell -107-points or -0.35%. Salesforce Inc rose +1.71% after the customer relationship management software company hosted an Investor Day, reiterating the fiscal 2023 revenue outlook of ~US$31B, after the company cut the outlook in May (to a range of US$31.7B-to-US$31.8B from US$32.0-to-US$32.1B in March), and lowered it again in August (to US$30.9B- to-US$31.0b). Boeing Co edged ~% higher in after-hours trading (following a -3.20% decline in regular trading) after The Wall Street Journal reported that the aerospace and defence company was seen "poised" to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into its 737 Max crashes a few years back. The settlement pertains to "allegedly misleading statements" from the company and then-Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg about the jets that crashed in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. The broader S&P500 -0.84%, with the Consumer Discretionary sector (down -2.16%) leading nine of the eleven primary sectors lower. Health Care (up +0.51%) and Communication Services (+0.06%) were the only primary sectors to advance overnioght. The Nasdaq -1.37%. The small capitalisation Russell 2000 lost -2.26%.