The Week Ahead: Fed Rate Hike Likely, Apple Earnings & April Jobs Report

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And let's turn to our segment next week on the street where we take a look at the events, sure to move markets in the week ahead. So is another interest rate hike on the way. Well, the fed will start its meeting on Tuesday to decide just that an answer is expected on Wednesday per usual. And the fed raising its benchmark rate nine times since March of last year in an effort to combat inflation. The most recent of which happened early last month. While economists predicting the FED will do so one more time at its main meeting and then hold rates steady until the end of the year. We will wait to see what fed chair Jerome Powell has to say and the week almost over. But earning season continues with several major companies set to report next week. Keeping an eye on Apple. That will be a huge one. It's going to report on Thursday. We'll also hear from Ford Kellogg and then two major players in the ride share industry, Uber and Lyft talking earnings. So that will be important all that plus big entertainment companies like Warner Brothers, Discovery and A MC Entertainment well as always, you want to stick with us here on chatter news for earnings coverage throughout the week. We'll have you covered and we'll get some key economic data, um, as well to give us a better sense of the jobs market. On Tuesday, we'll get the jolts report from March which tells us the number of available jobs in the US along with the number of workers who were hired laid off or quit last month. And then on Wednesday, we'll get the A P report all of this leading up to the April jobs report on Friday. March's numbers showing that the economy added 236,000 jobs. A sign that the labor market is cooling a bit. But we'll also see if April's numbers were affected by that big wave of layoffs across the economy. Just kind of rolling in in recent weeks. Sci fi fans gearing up for an unofficial holiday, Star Wars Day next Thursday, the fourth of May Disney, releasing some new Star Wars merchandise all across the galaxy for the celebration from a Mandalorian mask that changes your voice to new Lego sets and droid figurines. If you're traveling to Disney's US, Parks Disneyland or Walt Disney World, you will receive a special magic band to have fun and be the fourth as we save you with you.