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Vwls European prime ministers land in Kyiv to show support, Turkish FM arrives Thursday amid talks Wall Street capped a choppy day of trading with a mixed finish for stock indexes Monday, as stanley website investors brace for another sharp interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week as the central bank combats inflation.The SP 500 edged up 0.1% after fluctuating between gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.4%.Smaller company stocks fared better than the broader market, sending the Russell 2000 0.6% higher.The major indexes are coming off solid gains last week following a mix of mostly better-than-expected reports on corporate profits. Falling yields in the bond market also helped, easing the pressure on stocks after expectations for rate hikes by the Fed sent yields soaring much of this year.On Wednesday, most economists expect the Fed to announce a three-quarter percentage point hike in its short-term rate, a second consecutive hefty increase that it hasn t o stanley mug therwise implemented since 1994. It would put the Fed s benchmark rate in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.Wall Street will closely watch a news conference by Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday to get a sense of policymakers next steps. The o stanley cup spain nly question is will Powell sound a little less hawkish in his press conference, which could allow the market to continue to breathe a sigh of relief, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.The U.S. economy is slowing, but healthy hiring shows it isn t yet in recession, Treasury Cjps Neighbors lose everything after massive fire in Waukesha destroys 16-unit apartment Its official, summer 2020 was the hottest on record in the stanley mug Northern Hemisphere.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released their monthly report on global temperatures. August 2020s temperatures around the world made it the second-warmest August on record behind 2016, and the third-hottest season.Here in the Northern Hemisphere, August set a new record with a temperature departure from average of 2.14 degrees F, beating 2016s numbers. The most notable temperature departures from average were stanley thermoskannen observed across Alaska, eastern Canada, the western contiguous U.S., Europe, northern Russia, central South America, Western Australia, eastern Antarctica, and across the North Pacific, the Bering Sea, and the Barents Sea, where temperatures were at least 2.0掳C 3.6掳F above average, NOAA scientists observed.The three-month season, June-August, surpassed the previous global record reached in both 2016 and 2019. This period is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and they also had warmer weather than normal. Australia also had a drier than usual winter, 31 percent below average for precipitation.Globally, the ten hottest Augusts have all happened since 1998, and the five warmest have happened since 2015.Scientists believe 2020 will very likely rank in the top five warmest years on r stanley cups uk ecord.Also noted in the report, arctic sea ice continues to decline. The average Arcticsea ice coverage in August was the third smallest on record, about 29 percent below the 1981-2010 average.