US stock investors are likely to focus this week on the outlook for interest rates, tensions in the Middle East and growing concerns over the pace of artificial-intelligence development as they assess whether equity indexes can return to record highs, according to a report by Reuters.
Markets will continue to digest the Federal Reserve's decision from last week to raise interest rates for the first time in three years as the US central bank seeks to bring inflation back toward its target. While the move was widely anticipated, investors remain uncertain about how many additional rate hikes could follow and what that could mean for already-rising Treasury yields.
