Good MorningEquities wobbled at the start of the week as traders prepare for a round of important data and earnings reports. Data in the form of Retail Sales will dominate the news on Tuesday and is expected to show the impacts of inflation. The economists are expecting retail sales to accelerate on a sequential basis but at a tepid 1.1% rate. At this pace, the volume of sales is falling quickly on a YOY basis and price increases are only barely keeping up. Eventually, the balance will tip and retail activity will enter a recession.
On the earnings front, reports from a number of retailers like Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes are on deck and could alter the market outlook. These are the four horsemen of pandemic spending and have been market leaders up to now. If their results show weakness or a weakened outlook the broader market is likely to fall along with them. Featured: The 7 Stocks Quietly Gaining Attention Right Now (Ad) 
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Markets | | VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) presents an attractive opportunity to take a risk on a company that's helping others to migrate to cloud environments. The firm's strong revenue growth and margins make it popular with investors despite being down -14.98% YTD. The company is also trading -28.43% below the Ma... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | A drilling crew near the Grand Canyon uncovered a clean energy well producing nearly eight times the output of Saudi Arabia's largest oil field, with potential to last two million years.
While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated federal credits for solar, wind, and EVs, this energy source was reclassified alongside oil and nuclear power and given eight years of tax credits. Google signed a 15-year contract, and Bill Gates committed $100 million.
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From outperformance over a period of minutes to weeks, momentum can be defined in many ways. Day traders tend to care most about a stock’s short-term momentum while buy-and-hold investors typically focus on the long term.
As far as longer-term momentum strategies go, stocks with sizable yea... Read the Full Story |
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Home Depot Beats And Raises, But …
Shares of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) are up more than 4.0% in premarket trading following what was a better than expected Q1 report. As good as the report is, however, the gains are made on the back of rising prices that are cutting into total volume and the ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Rumors are circulating that Elon Musk is preparing to acquire three publicly traded companies.
Dr. Mark Skousen, who met Musk in person and called the SpaceX listing months early, says he has identified all three targets in what he calls Elon's $2.1 Trillion Hit List.
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Etsy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY) is one pandemic has-been that could be getting a second wind.
Six months ago, a major selloff was unfathomable for the marketplace of all things original. E-commerce was booming and the stock was peaking above $300.
It’s been downhill since for Etsy shareholders w... Read the Full Story |
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Highly Valued FIGS Lowers Guidance, Moves Lower
Shares of FIGS, Inc (NASDAQ: FIGS) are moving lower in the wake of the Q1 earnings report and it is no wonder. The niche brand of workwear reports supply chain, inflation, and worse, a shift in consumer spending related to inflation, is cutting int... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Porter Stansberry flew the Porter and Co. team 3,300 miles to Dublin to investigate a 17-year investing experiment called Project Prophet - and documented everything on film.
Rooted in the laws of physics, this quantitative approach challenges conventional wealth-building wisdom. With 17 years of verified data behind it, Porter calls it unlike anything he has seen in nearly 30 years in the business. | | Watch the full investigation and decide for yourself |
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Infusion therapy services provider Option Care Health (NASDAQ: OPCH) stock has been relatively strong during the market turmoil as it continues to trade near its 52-week highs. Infusion therapy administers medication and fluids through an IV (needle or catheter) as an alternative to an oral applic... Read the Full Story |
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Institutions And Short-Sellers Battle Over Warby Parker
Price action in Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY) has been trending lower ever since the highs set just after the IPO. The downtrend is due to the stock's high valuation, concerns about profitability, inflation/economic change, and no small amount o... Read the Full Story |
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Industrials | | Concentrix Corporation (NASDAQ: CNXC), is a solid company that's transforming itself into becoming a leader in the Customer Experience (CX) space, which it is doing so through its numerous acquisitions. One of the company's most notable acquisitions is its purchase of PK, a CX design and engineering... Read the Full Story |
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No Reprieve For Tech Stocks
The NASDAQ Composite (NYSEARCA: QQQ) is down more than 25% from its recent high and will probably head lower. Investors looking for a rebound are urged to caution in light of expected earnings and economic reports due out this week. While the bulk of Big Tech has alre... Read the Full Story |
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Consumer Staples | | Iconic lubricant maker WD-40 (NASDAQ: WDFC) stock has plummeted by more than (-40%) off its all-time highs, but it looks ready to finally coil. Inflation pressures and supply chain disruption have continued to deteriorate gross margins leading to a (-2%) drop in estimated net income for the year. Ho... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day The Cigna Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and related products and services in the United States. Its Evernorth Health Services segment provides a range of coordinated and point solution health services, including pharmacy benefits, home delivery pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, distribution, and care delivery and management solutions to health plans, employers, government organizations, and health care providers. The company's Cigna Healthcare segment offers medical, pharmacy, behavioral health, dental, and other products and services for insured and self-insured customers; Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Medicare Part D plans for seniors, as well as individual health insurance plans; and health care coverage in its international markets, as well as health care benefits for mobile individuals and employees of multinational organizations. In addition, it offers permanent insurance contracts sold to corporations to provide coverage on the lives of certain employees for financing employer-paid future benefit obligations. The company distributes its products and services through insurance brokers and consultants; directly to employers, unions and other groups, or individuals; and private and public exchanges. The company was formerly known as Cigna Corporation and changed its name to The Cigna Group in February 2023. The Cigna Group was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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