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At 9:40 ET (13:40 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 72 points or 0.2%, while the S&P 500 was flat and the NASDAQ Composite dipped 0.2%.
Investors are still reacting to the Fed’s move on Wednesday, when it held rates steady for the first time in more than a year but signaled another one or two rate increases could come this year.
Futures traders see a 72% probability of a quarter of a percentage point increase in rates in July, and the Fed said the terminal rate could rise to 5.6% this year, up from an earlier forecast of 5.1%.
The expectation that the Fed is nearing the end of its rate tightening after 10 consecutive increases that took the benchmark rate above 5% has been lighting a fire under tech stocks, boosting shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in recent weeks. Some of those stocks fell back after the Fed’s announcement on Wednesday.
Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) ended a 13-day winning streak and were down 2% on Thursday.
Retail sales data for May came in slightly hotter than expected, rising 0.3% for the month compared with expectations for a contraction of 0.1%. Initial jobless claims of 262,000 were higher than expected but in line with the prior week.
Mediterranean-style restaurant chain Cava was waiting to start trading after pricing its initial public offering at $22 a share Wednesday, above the already raised range. The debut is seen as a positive sign for new stock issues after a slow start to the year.
Oil was rising. Crude Oil WTI Futures were up 1.5% to $69.34 a barrel, while Brent Oil Futures were up 1.5% to $74.33 a barrel. Gold Futures were down 0.8% to $1,954.
