Good MorningEquity markets continued to pull back falling for the 3rd day as fear of the FOMC intensifies. The CPI was cooler than expected and the FOMC gave the market what it wanted but it came with a string attached. That string was an expectation for inflation to remain hot in 2023 and for the peak of interest rates to be above 5.0% and for it to stay at the peak until 2024. This news means the pressure that is currently weighing on the economy will not only increase but it will remain in place for at least the next 13 months.
The takeaway is that a recession is closing in on the US economy and the S&P 500. Even without an actual economic recession the S&P 500 is about to enter an earnings recession that could last all of next year. In this light, the odds are high the S&P 500 will resume its downtrend and retest the lows near 3,500. If there is no improvement to the outlook by then the index could fall to a new low. Featured: Buffett to put 90% of his money in this one stock? (Ad) 
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A classic cup-with-handle base is often a precursor to a stock’s run-up, and retailer Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) is forming exactly that type of consolidation.
The Tennessee-based company specializes in items for rural lifestyles, including hardware, supplies for livestock ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | The worst may be yet to come for the stock market.
Wall Street's mini-rebound since mid-October has recovered some of the index's sharp losses from the first 10 months of the year. It closed Monday a shade below 4,000, up more than 10% since its bottom two months earlier.
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Stocks | | | Stocks rose on Wall Street Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest decision on interest rates.
The S&P 500 rose 0.7% as of 1:37 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 231 points, or 0.7%, to 34,337 and the Nasdaq rose 0.6%.
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Markets | | | Stocks were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month.
The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest ra... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Microsoft is taking a roughly 4% stake in the operator of the London Stock Exchange, which has agreed to spend at least $2.8 billion in cloud-computing services from the technology giant.
That spending commitment will be spread out over 10 years, according to the terms of the deal ann... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | It’s Crypto Week at the White House — and the sector is moving from fringe to full-scale adoption.
With Bitcoin hitting $123,000 and giants like BlackRock and Fidelity pouring in, one expert believes a lesser-known coin could soon be vaulted to the top — possibly even landing in the government’s digital reserve. | | See the coin positioned to win from Washington’s crypto push |
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Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) has a lineup is on the higher end of the housing spectrum. Its balance sheet is in the best shape it has been in for years. The problem is not the supply-demand situation because that remains firmly in favor of all the homebuilders. The problem is in the near to... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, announced Wednesday it will no longer finance new oil and gas fields as part of its updated climate strategy.
Climate campaigners welcomed the moved saying HSBC provided a new baseline for other major banks but urged the bank to go further.
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Elon Musk and his company Tesla (NYSE: TSLA), have been in the spotlight in recent months, particularly since he made Twitter private through a $44 billion acquisition.
Since first announcing his acquisition of the platform, Musk has sold $22.9 billion worth of Tesla stock. A large a... Read the Full Story |
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To say the EV startup world is a world of fly-by-night operations and high risk is a bit of an understatement but Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ: MULN) is proving not all EV companies are alike. The latest news is a purchase order from Randy Marion Auto Group which is not only a game-changing event but... Read the Full Story |
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One of the world’s leading entrepreneurs is describing inflation and the energy crisis like “two freight trains barreling at each other.” More on that in a moment.
But first, I’d like to remind you of an idiom attributed to Mark Twain that reads, “history doesn&rsquo... Read the Full Story |
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Friday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company, developing gene therapies to restore, improve, and preserve physiologic hearing for individuals. The company's precision genetic medicine platform incorporates a proprietary adeno-associated viral vector library and a novel delivery approach. Its lead product candidate is AK-OTOF, a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. The company is also developing AK-CLRN1 for the auditory manifestations of Usher syndrome 3A, or USH3A; and AK-antiVEGF for vestibular schwannoma. In addition, its precision genetic medicine platform addresses hearing loss related to genes needed for supporting cell function. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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