Good MorningEquity markets advanced about 0.5% in mixed trading on Tuesday as traders await the results of the midterm elections. The polls were mixed at midnight so it could be anybody's game with the final vote tallied. The real driver of action, however, was a rise in the energy sector that put the Energy Sector ETF XLE at the highest levels in about 8 years. The move suggests a bullish tone to the energy market which has been reporting windfall profits and announcing dividend increases and share repurchases.
The risk this week is in the CPI index which is due out tomorrow. The analysts have been shifting their estimates and the net result is an increased expectation for consumer-level inflation versus earlier in the week. As it is now, economists are expecting core consumer inflation to run flat at 6.6% YOY which is a record-setting level of inflation. The takeaway is the FOMC is not done with interest rate hikes and they could maintain their 75 bps pace into the end of the year or longer. Featured: Elon’s big $266,000 per second purchase (Ad) 
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Two days after reporting Mullen Automotive’s (NASDAQ: MULN) short interest was growing despite a string of good news, the company released more good news that has upward pressure building for this market. The news is a deal with Ireland’s Newgate Motor Group for the i-Go. The i-Go is a... Read the Full Story |
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Green energy stocks like Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) and Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) are struggling with near-term headwinds now, but they are also getting into position for big gains in 2023. While focused on different aspects of the green energy industry, both are building out in-demand services... Read the Full Story |
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The semiconductor manufacturing industry has been powering down throughout 2022, but newly-public GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) is bucking that trend with a gain of 10.90% in the past month and 5.99% in the past three months.
On Tuesday, shares popped 8.62%, or $4.85, closing at $61.12. Trading v... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Trump is launching a new $250 bill - but that may be a distraction. Behind the scenes, Executive Order 14241 is orchestrating what analyst Porter Stansberry calls a total U.S. money reset, bypassing conventional legal channels under the guise of national security.
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Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) earnings are always among the most eagerly awaited each quarter and in many ways, can act as a bellwether for the broader economy. On the one hand, their Parks business gives investors a certain type of pulse on consumer sentiment and discretionary spending, while their ... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | | Restaurant operator The Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE) stock remains buoyant despite reporting a surprise loss in its Q3 2022 earnings. It operates over 310 restaurants under the Cheesecake Factory banner also including North Italia and Flower Child restaurants. The Company continues to be impact... Read the Full Story |
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Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) and Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ: RIDE) shares are moving in different directions post-Q3-earnings release but both stocks are set up to rally into year-end. The key takeaway from both reports is that production has begun, deliveries are being made (or on the schedule) a... Read the Full Story |
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With the outlook for 2023 in such dire straits, institutional activity and the support they give to a market will be more important than ever. The institutional activity in Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED), Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST), and Scotts-Miracle Gro (NYSE: SMG) suggest not only a high and growi... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | A 12% drop over the past two months might have suggested that investors didn't have high hopes for Activision Blizzard’s (NASDAQ: ATVI) latest earnings report, but it looks like they might have underestimated them. The video game maker which rode the pandemic fuelled wave of gains in 2021, rel... Read the Full Story |
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Twilio, Inc. (NYSE: TWLO) stock slipped 25.1% in premarket action, last week, after posting sales numbers that were weaker than expected. All of this despite the fact the cloud-based communications software firm also posted revenue is up 33% over the last 12 months, to $983 million beating analyst... Read the Full Story |
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Sometimes the hunted become the hunters.
Back in 2018, traditional automakers like Ford, Chevrolet, and Toyota made more money than anyone selling electric vehicles in the United States. Then Tesla burst onto the scene.
With Tesla all-in on EVs and the old guys making a mix of gas guzzlers and E... Read the Full Story |
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Wednesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day BOK Financial Corporation operates as the financial holding company for BOKF, NA that provides various financial products and services in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Northwest Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, and Kansas/Missouri. It operates through three segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, and Wealth Management. The Commercial Banking segment offers lending, treasury, cash management, and customer commodity risk management products for small businesses, middle market, and larger commercial customers, as well as operates TransFund electronic funds transfer network. The Consumer Banking segment engages in the provision of retail lending and deposit services to small business customers through retail branch network; and mortgage loan origination and servicing activities. The Wealth Management segment offers fiduciary, private bank, insurance, and investment advisory services; and brokerage and trading services primarily related to providing liquidity to the mortgage markets through trading of U.S. government agency mortgage-backed securities and related derivative contracts, as well as underwrites state and municipal securities. The company also provides commercial loans, such as loans for working capital, facilities acquisition or expansion, purchases of equipment, and other needs of commercial customers; and service, healthcare, manufacturing, wholesale/retail, energy, and other sector loans. In addition, it offers commercial real estate loans for the construction of buildings or other improvements to real estate and property held by borrowers for investment purposes; residential mortgage and personal loans; and automated teller machine, call center, and Internet and mobile banking services. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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