
Shares of Apple Inc. slipped ahead of Wednesday's market open, marking losses for a second consecutive session. A new downgrade from Jefferies shifted focus to Apple's product roadmap as the main point of contention in its valuation, instead of present sales figures.
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The catalysts most likely to move markets.
This is the clearest scheduled U.S.-market price-discovery point today and can transmit weekend news into equity-index futures before Monday's cash session.
The Q2 retail package can move NZD and regional risk sentiment. Spillover to U.S. assets is usually secondary unless the result is unusually large.
The absence of U.S. releases, earnings, IPO pricings and split events leaves fewer scheduled catalysts, increasing the relative importance of weekend headlines and positioning at the futures reopen.