CPI Fears Leave Room for Over 1.5% Pullback in Major Indexes
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Investors awaited this week's inflation report for clues on the Fed's policy path. Treasury yields and the U.S. dollar index declined.Options market data suggested the S&P 500 ETF could see a pullback of over 1.5% priced in by May 17 expiration. For QQQ, there was room left for a 2.2% rally this week, while a 4.2% decline was expected. The small-cap Russell 2000 had room for a 1.4% decline priced in for the week.Details:The $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ saw open call interest decline -2.9% over the past 5 days. Open put contracts decreased -0.5% over the same period.For call options, investors bought the most $SPY 20241220 680.0 CALL$ with a 680 strike, adding 18,000 cont