Good MorningIt’s a rally. The markets are all finished in the green to close the week. The only thing that changed is that an increasing number of experts are beginning to believe that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates more than 75 basis points at their next meeting. And in a week that brought a lot of bad news regarding inflation, investors had to cheer the news that the long-term inflation outlook is at its lowest level in a year.
However, we would caution investors on getting complacent. The market is going to continue to be volatile. Next week, earnings season will begin in earnest. There are still expectations for a profits recession. Several companies have pre-emptively lowered their already lowered guidance.
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Markets | | State Street (NYSE: STT) is a financial services firm that provides asset management, custodian services, fund accounting, and administration services. Global Services handles assets from many classes, including stocks, derivatives, exchange-traded funds, fixed income assets, private equity, and real estate. Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Membership based warehouse retailer Costco (NASDAQ: COST) stock has trimmed its losses to (-7.7%) on the year. The retail giant operates 830 warehouses worldwide including the majority 574 locations in the U.S. It has fared much better than rival consumer retailers Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NY... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | E-commerce infrastructure platform Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) stock has crumbled a whopping (-77%) in 2022. The popular commerce platform paves the way for digital transformation by enabling small businesses to set up shop online Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | Pleas were piling up Sunday in Italy aimed at persuading Premier Mario Draghi to stay in office instead of resigning as he tried to do last week after being let down by a populist coalition partner.
Hundreds of mayors have signed an open letter. Union leaders and industrialists, who ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Diversified global medical science products maker Abbott (NYSE: ABT) stock is down a modest (-11.5%) on the year. Abbott provides full lifecycle health and medical products from baby formula to nutrition supplement products, chronic disease treatments and medical devices to generic pharmaceuticals Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | The economy is a bit wobbly, but General Motors CEO Mary Barra isn’t backing off of an audacious prediction: She pledges that by the middle of this decade, her company will sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. than Tesla, the global sales leader Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks.
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Tech | | President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Shares of Whirlpool have been sold off following the company's exit from Russia, which is predicted to incur a significant loss over the short term. However, the long-term effects of the exit from the Russian market could prove minimal. Read the Full Story |
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a set of intelligent, cloud-based applications across ERP, CRM, power apps, and power automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications. The Intelligent Cloud segment offers server products and cloud services, such as azure and other cloud services; SQL and windows server, visual studio, system center, and related client access licenses, as well as nuance and GitHub; and enterprise services including enterprise support services, industry solutions, and nuance professional services. The More Personal Computing segment offers Windows, including windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows commercial comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and windows Internet of Things; and devices, such as surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories. Additionally, this segment provides gaming, which includes Xbox hardware and content, and first- and third-party content; Xbox game pass and other subscriptions, cloud gaming, advertising, third-party disc royalties, and other cloud services; and search and news advertising, which includes Bing, Microsoft News and Edge, and third-party affiliates. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers; and directly through digital marketplaces, online, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. | View Today's Stock Pick |
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