Good MorningEquity markets extended the rebound in stocks to near the recent high on Tuesday but traders and investors alike are cautioned not to read too much into the move. Not only was the move driven by an absence of news but it occurred during a holiday-shortened trading week. The takeaway is that Tuesday's action appears bullish but may not lead to much without a true catalyst to induce the market to buy stocks.
Wednesday's action will be more of the same. The question is if the market will end the day up or down and the difference will be telling. A down market suggests traders are fearful of what might happen over the extended holiday weekend while an up market is the opposite. Next week the market will get back in gear as investors start to prep for the final days of the year and what could be a lackluster holiday shopping season. Featured: The case for trading fewer setups, not more (Ad) 
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Technology | | CenturyLink merged with Qwest to become the third-largest telecommunications company in the U.S. in 2010. The Company continued to gobble up technology companies like Savvis, a cloud infrastructure company in 2012 and broadband provider Level 3 Communications in 2017. The Company changed its name fr... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Oracle runs 15,000 stocks through the same filter every single day, scanning for precise setups before the opening bell - no emotion, no guesswork.
Tim Bohen, Lead Trainer at StocksToTrade, is walking through this week's flagged setups and showing exactly how the scanner works in a live training right now. | | Watch the scanner in action and join the live training now |
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Despite a fiscal first-quarter earnings report that beat consensus estimates, analysts are giving Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) a HOLD rating for now. The report revealed that earnings for the computer networking firm rose 5% year-over-year through the quarter ending on October 29, up 86 cents. In ... Read the Full Story |
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The sell-side activity has been robust for Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) over the past 12 months and it is capping gains for the stock. Insiders, institutions and short-sellers are using the $115 level as a ceiling that has the stock trapped in a range that has persisted since the late s... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Every morning before the market opens, a scanner called Oracle runs through 15,000 stocks and scores the setups — so there's already a plan in place by 6:15 a.m.
Lead Trainer Tim Bohen of StocksToTrade is walking through exactly how Oracle works and how regular traders are using it in a training running right now. | | Watch the Oracle training now and see how the scanner works |
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If you want to invest in covered calls the Global X Funds NASDAQ 100 ETF (NASDAQ: QYLD) is something you should check out. Better yet, if you want to get a high double-digit yield in a stock with a long track record of successive monthly dividend payments this should be on your list. It is an ETF ... Read the Full Story |
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Books. Makeup. Socks. Bottles of hot sauce. When it comes to stocking stuffers, Santa has many budget-friendly options. Investors in search of inexpensive stocks, on the other hand, have limited choices — at least when it comes to those stocks that have good fundamentals.
This year’s ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The U.S. government has taken roughly a 10% stake in Intel, negotiated a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China, and reportedly received a 5% ownership offer - worth around $40 billion - from the most valuable AI company on earth.
Porter Stansberry calls it the New U.S.A.I. - a state-backed arrangement where Washington and a handful of tech giants are fused at the balance sheet. A small number of companies get pulled inside. Everyone else gets frozen out, including names sitting in your index fund right now. | | Watch the documentary to see which companies are on the right side |
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is no stranger to comebacks. In the fourth quarter of 2018, the artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker’s shares were slashed by 52% amid fears of rising interest rates, a global economic slowdown and cryptocurrency issues.
Sound familiar?
In the three yea... Read the Full Story |
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Global online marketplace Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) posted its most recent quarter on November 17 and the results were mixed. While some investors may have been okay with the lukewarm report, the stock took a tumble and is now 75% lower than its all-time high ($317.14 in October 2020... Read the Full Story |
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The online gambling industry is the 10th hottest industry in the US in 2022 and that is saying something. This industry is small at roughly $11 billion in value but growing rapidly and up 45% on a YOY basis as of late November. The industry is expected to continue to grow at a high-double-digit CA... Read the Full Story |
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Ardelyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARDX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company whose primary focus is the discovery, development, and commercialization of new, innovative, and non-systemic, small-molecule therapeutics specifically targeting gastrointestinal, metabolic, and cardio-renal diseases.
Sinc... Read the Full Story |
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The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) energized what is normally a quiet trading week by announcing the ousting of CEO Bob Chapek and the return of former CEO Bob Iger. The stock is up over 6% in midday trading. However, it was up over 9% in pre-market trading.
The news comes less than a year afte... Read the Full Story |
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Wednesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Applied Materials, Inc. engages in the provision of manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, display, and related industries. The company operates through three segments: Semiconductor Systems, Applied Global Services, and Display and Adjacent Markets. The Semiconductor Systems segment develops, manufactures, and sells various manufacturing equipment that is used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment also offers various technologies, including epitaxy, ion implantation, oxidation/nitridation, rapid thermal processing, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, electrochemical deposition, atomic layer deposition, etching, and selective deposition and removal, as well as metrology and inspection tools. The Applied Global Services segment provides integrated solutions to optimize equipment and fab performance and productivity comprising spares, upgrades, services, remanufactured earlier generation equipment, and factory automation software for semiconductor, display, and other products. The Display and Adjacent Markets segment offers products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays; organic light-emitting diodes; and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices. It operates in the United States, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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