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Earnings playbook: The investing game plan as Apple and Alphabet lead the busiest week of the season
Brace yourselves. This upcoming week will be the busiest of the corporate earnings season, with more than 150 S & P 500 names set to report. Apple, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and McDonald’s are all among those on deck. The earnings season has been a mixed bag thus far. Roughly 21% of S & P 500 […]
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Travel spending is back, and it’s not just consumers, American Express earnings show
Spending on travel and entertainment came roaring back in the second quarter, and it wasn’t just consumers making the purchases, according to the latest results from American Express . The company said consumer spending in the category topped pre- Covid pandemic levels for the first time in April. Notably, there also was a significant uptick […]
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Amazon’s deals don’t instill the same fear in rivals as before
June 16, 2017. It’s likely a day many retailers can recall vividly. A sleepy Friday morning was disrupted by the surprising announcement that e-commerce giant Amazon was going to buy organic grocer Whole Foods. The upheaval was immediate. Not only did the news send shares of grocer Kroger into a tailspin, a broad swath of […]
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Wall Street believes these Nasdaq names will lead a comeback after its worst quarter since 2008
It was a vicious first half and quarter for stocks, but especially for members of the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite. Rising inflationary concerns spooked investors, who increasingly turned on one-time tech darlings that are more sensitive to rising interest rates. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 29% in the first half, the most of the three major averages. […]
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UBS says this economy is going through ‘slowflation’ and gives stocks to play it
UBS believes the U.S. is about to enter a period of “slowflation,” not stagflation. The investment bank said in a note Tuesday that it sees the economy entering a slowflation period in the next 12 to 36 months. Unlike stagflation periods that are characterized by stagnant economic growth and high inflation, slowflation periods are marked […]
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This first half ranks among the market’s worst on record. Here’s what typically happens next
The first half of this year ranks among the worst on record for stocks, with the S & P 500 losing more than a fifth of its value. But the selling could ease a bit in the second half if the history of similar terrible starts is any guide. Mounting fears of a recession caused […]
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These stocks are insulated from a recession, Morgan Stanley says
Some companies should still be able to grow earnings even if the U.S. economy falls into a recession, according to Morgan Stanley. Mike Wilson, the firm’s chief equity strategist, said in a note to clients Tuesday that the market has not priced in a recession and that analyst estimates for corporate earnings will need to […]
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Some big investors called the Fed-led market mayhem. Here’s where they are hiding out
Some of Wall Street’s biggest investors saw it coming. It’s turning into a week of vindication for a handful of notable investors, from Stanley Druckenmiller to David Einhorn and Paul Tudor Jones, who have long been warning about the Federal Reserve’s inability to engineer a soft landing. The S & P 500 tumbled in the a […]
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These ETFs allow the regular investor to play offense during a bear market like a hedge fund
In rocky times for stocks, sometimes the best way to protect a portfolio is to bet against the market. This is how many high-profile hedge fund managers have made their names over the years — betting against the market, or certain sectors, at key times — giving their investors returns that help offset losses elsewhere […]
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Recession could hit this year so buy defensive dividend stocks, Wolfe Research says
It’s time for investors to snap up defensive dividend stocks as a recession could hit later this year, according to Wolfe Research. Wolfe analysts said in a note Monday that believe a recession could turn up as early as the fourth quarter, though they maintained that their base case is for a downturn in 2023. […]
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