on if the "barron's roundtable," andrew berry, elizabeth o'brien and al root.w, the stock market, we got that the rate cut on wednesday. the market, it dipped a little lit -- little bit later in the day. what is the market trying to tell us? was the rate cut priced in? what are you seeing? >> it might have been priced in, but it was a mild if surprise about getting a half-point cut in rates and fed chairman powell talked about about a recl brace of short-term rates. rates now under 5, or dropping close to 4 later this year and maybe 3% in 2025. jackie: what about fedex? -- jack: what about fedex? if is that a fedex problem or is that the finish. >> well, there were some company-specific issues including customers trading down to lower price delivery options but also could be a cautious read on the economy. ups, this is its competitor, also has been weak this year, so it's something to watch. >> yeah. fedex, it's sort of good news-bad news. some of that trade down, industrial companies use a lot of the premium services, that demand is crying up. industrial econo

investors on a think about right now on the "barron's roundtable" my colleagues ben levisohn, elizabeth o'brien al root. the leader stumbled this past week in the market in the troops marched on and it wasn't a bad week. >> this was nvidia and everybody was watching what the earnings will be like in the market freaked out a little bit ahead of it in the earnings came out through the s&p 500 finished the week flat of 0-point to percent even though the stop stock up 6% that's what's going on looking other things the tech stocks did not do well, the magnificent seven did not do well but energy, financial, material finished higher into ended up a week where the dow was at a high, the nasdaq was down in the s&p was flat. >> the feds inflation gauge came in confirming the story that know it's not coming out as fast as we would like but fairly nice clip that looks good for the market. >> 2.5%, is not to yet but it's heading there in the number that we can see the with the fed is the trajectory and the fed can start looking other things and we have other things to look at. >> there seems to be some deb