Good MorningThe S&P 500 pushed up to set another new all-time high in Wednesday trading but was unable to hold the gains. Despite a strong showing from America’s largest retailers news from the FOMC sent a ripple of fear through the market. In the minutes from the last meeting officials at the Fed discussed the potential risks associated with the COVID pandemic and its impact on the U.S. economy. While the committee sees the U.S. on an upward trajectory it also sees the pandemic “weighing heavily on the economy”.
Conversely, data from the housing sector and business updates from a wide variety of retailers suggest a manufacturing boom may already be underway. With sales outpacing Wall Street consensus and pandemically-hindered supply-chains, inventories are falling fast and backlogs are growing. The S&P 500 may correct now and it may not, if it does have your cash ready.
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There’s something so satisfying about getting dividend payouts deposited into your account. Watching the payouts stack up and compound over time is one of the most rewarding aspects of investing. People tend to gravitate towards dividend stocks because they generate passive income and can si... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | In 1974, a quiet deal between Henry Kissinger and the Saudis reshaped America's monetary order overnight, with no announcement and no vote in Congress.
Decades later, the dollar had lost more than 84% of its purchasing power even as millionaire ranks surged into the millions.
Financial reporter Kimi Weintraub sits down to explore a new, largely unnoticed shift in America's monetary system, one tied to executive orders and a reported 13-nation agreement. | | Watch the full interview before the December 14 Miami summit |
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Markets | | Wholesales Prices Are Rising, But So What?
There has been nothing but good news coming out of the used-car industry of late. The pandemic put a hurting on business for a month or so but since then the rebound has been vigorous. Retailers from Carmax (NYSE:KMX) to Autonation (NYSE:AN), Vroom (NYSE:... Read the Full Story |
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Move over Tesla. The electric vehicle market has a new player in town. Phoenix-based electric truck manufacturer Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA) took the market by storm this summer after its June 4th Nasdaq debut.
Fresh of its merger with SPAC VectoIQ, Nikola raced to over $90 per share only to dive back u... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | China has slashed its U.S. Treasury holdings by more than 45% from their peak, while building gold vaults and payment networks that bypass the dollar entirely.
Since the Federal Reserve opened in 1913, the dollar has lost most of its purchasing power. Porter Stansberry argues a new monetary order is forming around AI infrastructure, chips and energy, pointing to stocks like Vertiv, GE Vernova and Arista Networks that have surged hundreds of percent in recent years. | | Watch Porter Stansberry's full interview and see his top pick now |
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Markets | | La-Z-Boy Is Cautiously Optimistic
Furniture-maker La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) reported a mixed quarter that’s only if you read the headlines. Revenue missed, sure, but by a slim margin but EPS more than mitigated the shortfall. The company, like so many others in the 2Q, was able to leverage cost-con... Read the Full Story |
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Left for dead by most investors after a dismal 2019, Kirkland's (NASDAQ:KIRK) has lifted itself off the ground and skyrocketed 665% this year. The Tennessee-based specialty retailer of home décor has been one of the biggest success stories to come out of the pandemic emerging as a significa... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Elon Musk and Sam Altman have sued each other and feuded for years. Yet within days of one another, both men described the same moment in strikingly similar terms: a technological tipping point they call the Singularity.
James Altucher says the idea once belonged to science fiction. Now he connects it to a move Musk could make as soon as October 21, and lays out what both men see coming in a short presentation. | | Watch the free presentation now to see what they revealed |
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Target Is Winning, Let Your Winners Run
It was only a quarter ago that I wrote the article “Target Is About To Rocket Higher”. My thesis, summed up by the words ‘total package’, centered on the company’s long-term plans, its positioning within the market, COVID-inspi... Read the Full Story |
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Digital advertising has quickly become one of the largest line items for businesses as they prepare their marketing budgets. With consumers devoting more time to their devices than ever before and a seemingly endless amount of data available to help companies create ads that target specific market... Read the Full Story |
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While luxury retail names like Macy’s (NYSE: M), Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL), and Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS) watch their shares languish near multi-year if not all-time lows, shares of discount department store Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) continue to undo Q1’s damage.
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Markets | | Jaw-Dropping Results From America’s Retailers
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) reported earnings this morning and gave the market everything it wanted and more. Not only did the company post robust growth but growth soundly beat the analyst’s estimates and accelerated from the previous quarter. Th... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Cryptocurrency, You Have To Be In It To Win It
At the risk of damaging my own credibility, I am going to go out on a limb and say that I Iike Cryptocurrency. The technology is very interesting, the potential for application is limitless, and the values associated with it are mind-boggling. Bitcoin ... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day BTQ Technologies Corp. engages in the development of computer-based technology related to post-quantum cryptography for applications in blockchain and related technologies. Its products include PQScale is a scaling mechanism for lattice-based post-quantum signatures, leveraging zero-knowledge proofs to compress digital signatures to achieve speed and cost savings; Keelung is a user-friendly toolkit for developing zero-knowledge proofs, featuring a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell and a compiler; as well as Kenting specializes in hardware acceleration tailored for zero-knowledge computation applications; and Quantum Proof-of-Work QPoW is an energy-efficient, post-classical consensus algorithm that uses Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum hardware to authorize blockchain transactions. In addition, the company provides QRiNG product is a toolkit for quantum random number generation; Preon paves the path to a future-proof, digitally secure post-quantum signature scheme; and QByte, a quantum risk calculator. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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