The US drops the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan as geopolitical tensions simmer and stocks (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) slip. Catch The Final Round at 4 p.m. with Jen Rogers, Yahoo Finance markets correspondent Myles Udland and Bruno del Ama, co-founder and CEO of Global X Funds.
Looking ahead
The markets will be closed, but we’ll still get some economic data, starting with the consumer price index at 8:30 a.m. Economists expect a 2.6% gain year over year.
Also at 8:30 a.m. we’ll get retail sales for March. Sales are once again expected to be held back by autos, with the street expecting the reading minus auto and gas sales to rise 0.3%.
And finally at 10 a.m. we’ll get business inventories, with forecasters looking for another 0.3% build in February.
