Good MorningEquity markets tried to shake off Monday’s malaise on Tuesday but weaker than expected housing data put a damper on sentiment. The April read of housing starts and building permits shows the number of housing starts declined nearly 10% with a notable 13% decline in single-family homes. The figures are a sign of the impact of rising lumber prices on the housing market in the face of rising demand and may not bounce back soon.
Wednesday markets will be focused on the FOMC minutes which are scheduled to be released at 2 PM. The minutes are not expected to show much change in terms of FOMC sentiment but may include talk about inflation. If the FOMC makes note of rising inflation it could be the straw that breaks this market’s back.
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Energy | | Offshore oil and gas drilling giant Transocean (NYSE: RIG) stock is starting to awaken after years of brutal selling from a high of $163 in 2015 to lows of $0.65 in 2020. The global decarbonization movement and migration towards clean energy solutions has not been a favorable environment for the oil... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Elon Musk bought Super Bowl ad time at $266,000 per second - something he has never done before. 125 million Americans watched, but Whitney Tilson, former manager of a $200 million hedge fund, says most investors missed what it actually means.
With 1 in 3 Super Bowl viewers using buy-now-pay-later services and 40% of Americans carrying more credit card debt than savings, Tilson believes Elon's message reveals a major economic current - and a clear signal for where smart money should be positioned. | | Watch Tilson's free presentation to see what he thinks you should do now |
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Finance | | If you aren’t familiar with quarterly 13F filings, they are a quarterly report that needs to be filed by all institutional investment managers with at least $100 million in assets under management. The goal here is to provide transparency and allow all market participants to see what big funds... Read the Full Story |
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I used to work for a higher educational institution, and 403(b)s were all the rage there. I happily invested in the college's 403(b) and stuck to it for 12 years.
Then, when I left my job, I transferred my money from a 403(b) into a traditional IRA. I took another job (a corporate job) and start... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The U.S. Treasury still carries America's gold reserves at $42 per ounce — a price set generations ago. Buried in U.S. Code Title 31, Section 5117 is a provision allowing the Treasury to revalue those reserves to modern market prices. With gold now trading above $2,600 and record government debt putting pressure on the monetary system, attention is returning to this mechanism and what a revaluation could mean for the dollar and for private gold holders. Historically, when monetary systems shift, wealth doesn't disappear — it moves. The U.S. Gold Bureau has put together a complimentary Precious Metals IRA investor guide for Americans looking to understand how to position ahead of the next phase. | | Request Your Free Precious Metals IRA Guide from the U.S. Gold Bureau |
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iBio (NYSEAMERICAN:IBIO) was one of the more fascinating stocks at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company already possessed a proprietary system for producing proteins from plants. And in the early days of the pandemic, iBio introduced a vaccine candidate, IBIO-201, with hopes that it cou... Read the Full Story |
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Basic Materials | | Earnings and revenue growth are returning to the steel industry, boosting stocks like Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), Nucor (NYSE: NUE) and Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT).
We can use the VanEck Vectors Steel ETF (NYSEARCA: SLX) as a proxy for industrywide performance. The ETF, which tracks the NYSEARCA ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | This feels like one of those ''where were you when Kennedy was shot'' moments. It felt like a moment in time, but that single shot started an avalanche of investigations, accusations, and conspiracy theories.
That's what you just witnessed with the death of the Ayatolla Khamenei.
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Technology | | Optical and photonic products maker Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) stock took a hard tumble recently falling (-30%) off its 2021 highs and presenting an opportunistic buying opportunity. The makers of optical and network communications products and commercial laser technology spun-off by the iconic former ... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | | While we know that 2020 was a terrible year for most retailers, investors might be surprised to learn that there are some promising signs coming out of the brick-and-mortar retail space at this time. Earlier this week, we saw April U.S. retail sales come in at $619.9 billion, up 51.2% from a year ag... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | | While the tech heavy NASDAQ index continues to drop, shares of data warehousing company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) are going from strength to strength. In a way, it’s business as normal for them. Having IPO’d last September, they rode the wave of risk-on euphoria that was rampant across equi... Read the Full Story |
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Is The Squeeze In Fisker Inc. About To Begin?
We put Fisker Inc. (NYSE: FSR) on watch for a short-squeeze just the day before it released its Q1 earnings and it already looks like the squeeze could be on. The company reported a mixed quarter but one in which outlook was upheld, targets were main... Read the Full Story |
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There is a saying that life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Investors understand all too well the truth behind that statement. Sometimes we can miss out on significant gains in a sector or sectors because we start chasing the shiny object.
In 2020 and into 2021, one o... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day The Boston Beer Company, Inc produces and sells alcohol beverages primarily in the United States. The company's flagship beer is Samuel Adams Boston Lager. It offers various beers, hard ciders, flavored malt beverages, and hard seltzers under the Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, Angel City, and Coney Island brand names. The company markets and sells its products to a network wholesaler in the United States, as well as wholesalers, importers, or other agencies that in turn sell to retailers, such as grocery stores, club stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, bars, restaurants, stadiums, and other e-commerce retail outlets. It sells its products in Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, Mexico, and Central and South America. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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