Good MorningEquity markets fell to new lows last week despite the Fed's assurances a 75 basis point interest rate hike was not on the table. The S&P 500 fell to the lowest levels in months and could move lower in the coming week is the CPI data comes in hot again. There is an expectation for consumer-level inflation to cool in April for no other reason than tough comps to the prior year, the risk is that inflation rose at a hotter rate than the market is pricing in and will up the stakes in terms of the FOMC.
The FOMC has been incrementally increasing its outlook for inflation and rate hikes over the past two quarters, we will not be surprised to see it happen again following the CPI release. In other news, the non-farm payroll report came in as expected and points to ongoing health in the labor market. The bad news is a decline in the participation rate suggests unemployed workers have quit looking for jobs and wages continue to put upward pressure on inflation. Featured: Can Your Bank Answer This Question? (Ad) 
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Shares of toy products and content creator Mattel, Inc. (NYSE: MAT) stock is a rare performer as shares are up 20% year-to-date reaching 52-week highs as benchmark indices plunge in the opposite direction. The iconic toy manufacturer pulled a surprise profit in its fiscal Q1 2022 when analysts exp... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Fidelity are reportedly accumulating a scarce blockchain asset - one that gets burned with every transaction on what analysts are calling America's new financial grid.
The Nasdaq has received SEC approval to move stocks onto blockchain rails, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink dedicated his entire 2026 annual letter to this infrastructure shift. Blockchain analyst Andy Howard is calling this asset 'Digital Oil' - and says institutional buyers are already positioned. | | Get the name, the ticker, and exactly how to buy it |
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Industrial technology manufacturer Littelfuse (NASDAQ: LFUS) stock has staged a sharp reversal on a stellar fiscal Q1 2022 earnings. The maker of fuses and electronics protection products accommodates transportation and logistics, electronics, and industrial sectors. The Company achieved double-di... Read the Full Story |
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Hospital and healthcare facilities operator HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) stock has been performing relatively strong compared to the benchmark indices during this bearish market sell-off. The nation’s largest hospital operator felt inflationary pressures as labor costs cut into margins more th... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Tom Busby calls them the '7 Sisters' - seven markets he checks before trading a single share each week: the S&P, Nasdaq, Dow, German DAX, gold, crude oil, and bonds.
With 45 years of trading experience, Busby delivers this full-board read every Monday before the open - covering key earnings, five stocks with exact support, resistance, and trigger levels, and the news that actually moves markets.
Built for stocks, options, and futures traders alike. | | See how Tom reads the 7 Sisters before the week opens |
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Consumer Discretionary | | Consumer footwear and athleisure brand Skechers U.S.A. (NYSE: SKX) stock has fallen (-16%) for 2022 faring slightly better than the benchmark indices. The third-largest footwear maker hit all-time high quarterly revenues in its fiscal Q1 2022 results. It has grown its direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales ... Read the Full Story |
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As a small cap biotech, it doesn’t get much more risky than ChemoCentryx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCXI). Not many companies see their share price soar from $10 to $70 only to plunge back below $10—all in a span of less than 24 months.
The highly volatile stock was at it again last week. In the ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Elon Musk has officially confirmed a major new financial venture - and over 1 billion dollars is already flowing in.
Senior Investment Analyst Luke Lango has identified the public companies positioned to benefit from this development, with implications for the broader financial system. | | See the full list of stocks that could benefit from this move |
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Markets | | Electronic U.S. stock market exchange operator Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) stock has been collapsing with the benchmark indices as it has fallen (-22%) year-to-date. Not to be confused with the Nasdaq 100 exchange-traded-fund (NASDAQ: QQQ) which is composed of the weighted average value of its 100 underly... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | | It’s been a while since there was any good news for investors of Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) to get excited about. Antitrust concerns last year were compounded by a large risk of delisting on US exchanges, which was in turn dwarfed by the impact of rising interest rates and the strong risk-off sentim... Read the Full Story |
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Value, Yield, And Growth That You Can Count On
We could expound for days on the risks facing the market and the potential depth of the oncoming correction but we won’t. Today we're here to touch base on a few stocks that we expect to do well over the next few years regardless of the broad ... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | | Despite their shares being down almost 50% from last year’s all-time high, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) was a welcome sight for sore eyes this week. Equity markets have been under their longest period of selling pressure since the COVID panic of 2020, and in terms of the performance, w... Read the Full Story |
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Despite both companies delivering positive earnings, the tape is telling two different stories
In this article, we’re going to look at Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) and Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG). These are two of the titans of the travel sector. Both reported earnings this week so it’s ... Read the Full Story |
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day HubSpot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Management Systems Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content. It offers Operations Hub, which is designed to unify customer data, automate business processes, data cleanup, and provide customer insights and connections; and Commerce Hub, a B2B commerce suite. In addition, the company provides professional services to educate and train customers on how to utilize its CRM platform; and customer success, as well as phone and/or email and chat-based support services. It serves mid-market business-to-business companies. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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