Good MorningEquities slipped on Monday extending the prior week's decline and putting the S&P 500 on track to move lower later in the week. The index is now below key resistance levels where the bears are likely to increase their selling and add momentum to the move. All the market needs is a catalyst for lower prices and that could come in the form of economic data. There is a long list of economic reports due out this week including construction spending, the ISM Manufacturing Index, and the August read of the non-farm payrolls report. The report is expected to show a cool down in both hiring and wage gains which takes some pressure off of the Fed. Even so, labor conditions remain tight and wages are rising and underpinning broader inflation.
In stock news, the market is gearing up for Apple's next product event. The iconic company is expected to launch several new iPhone models among other products and drive another upgrade cycle for the business. The question the market will want to have answered is how expensive are the new phones and how many, exactly, does the company think it will sell? Featured: Congress Is Talking Crypto. Here’s What It Means for You … (Ad) 
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Politics | | | Global stocks and Wall Street futures rebounded Tuesday as investors digested last week's Federal Reserve pledge to fight inflation by keeping interest rates elevated.
London, Frankfurt and Tokyo advanced, while Shanghai declined. The euro edged up to just over $1.
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Markets | | | Targa Resources (NYSE: TRGP), which specializes in midstream energy infrastructure, has been etching the right side of a consolidation since late July.
Targa has been correcting in a pretty orderly fashion, especially if you compare it to the many stocks that are down 50% or more this year.
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Markets | | | Unity Software (NYSE: U) has been on a wild ride in the past few weeks following an earnings report and some corporate drama surrounding acquisitions.
Unity runs a software platform for creators and sponsors of real-time three-dimensional content. Customers use Unity’s platform to devel... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Bitcoin just smashed through $122,000 — exactly as crypto analyst Juan Villaverde predicted.
Now he says it’s headed for $150K… but believes one lesser-known coin could outperform Bitcoin entirely. He’s sharing the name and setup behind it — just as we enter what he calls the biggest crypto bull run in history. | | See the coin Juan says could beat Bitcoin in this bull market |
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Sell-side research firms have long had a major influence on the stock market. They employ teams of analysts that scour through financial statements and other data to form in-depth opinions of publicly traded companies. Often their ratings and price targets single-handedly move the needle.
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Markets | | | Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said.
Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, includin... Read the Full Story |
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Global toy manufacturer Mattel, Inc. (NYSE: MAT) stock is trading up 5% on the year. The maker of blue chip brands like Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher Price, and American Girls is still delivering double digit growth despite inflationary pressures and supply chain costs. In fact, Mattel has been profi... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Major South Korean battery maker LG and Japanese automaker Honda are investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture in the United States to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market, the two companies said Monday.
The plant’s site is still undecided, but co... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Retail department store chain Macy’s (NYSE: M) stock has had a rollercoaster ride in the past two years as shares trade down (-32%) for the year. The iconic department store chain that brought Santa Claus into the mainstream has emerged from the pandemic as a well-oiled machine. The Polaris tu... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries have agreed to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services worldwide. The company operates through Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing segments. The Software segment offers a hybrid cloud and AI platforms that allows clients to realize their digital and AI transformations across the applications, data, and environments in which they operate. The Consulting segment focuses on skills integration for strategy, experience, technology, and operations by domain and industry. The Infrastructure segment provides on-premises and cloud based server, and storage solutions, as well as life-cycle services for hybrid cloud infrastructure deployment. The Financing segment offers client and commercial financing, facilitates IBM clients' acquisition of hardware, software, and services. The company has a strategic partnership to various companies including hyperscalers, service providers, global system integrators, and software and hardware vendors that includes Adobe, Amazon Web services, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics and SAP, and others. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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