Good MorningEquity markets cheered the FOMC's latest policy shift but should not be sanguine. The Fed's shift is likely short-lived, given the impact of the news on oil and equity markets. The Fed signaled at least three quarter-point interest rate cuts in 2024, clearing the runway for oil and risk-on asset demand. In this environment, inflation could easily accelerate, leading the FOMC to revert to its tighter stance.
The S&P 500 gained more than 1.25% at the height of the session as investors loaded up on deep-value stocks with high yields and a significant chance of outperforming bonds as interest rates fall. Capital invested in such names will continue to pay the same 4% to 6% yield as bonds indefinitely, with the added bonus of capital appreciation.
The bad news is that the technical outlook for the S&P 500 continues to deteriorate. The market moved higher with a solid gain but indicators such as MACD and stochastic are overbought and diverging from the action suggesting growing weakness as the rally grinds higher.
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Dividends are commonly thought of as a reward for long-term investors. Every quarter, certain public companies pay out dividends to their shareholders, who can then use them as income or reinvest them back into the company. But, since company stock only needs to be held for a day for dividend elig... 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.
One company controls the entire supply chain behind this discovery. | | See the ticker behind this Grand Canyon energy breakthrough now |
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Are you looking for a dividend investing strategy that can help you generate income and grow your portfolio over time? If you are like many investors, you understand the importance of finding top-rated dividend stocks that can provide steady and reliable returns. But with so many options out there... Read the Full Story |
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Mastering the art of selecting the right dividend stocks is a top skill set among investors seeking financial prosperity. Learning how to research and find the best dividend-paying stocks becomes crucial as you search for the highest yield stock dividends.
Investing in stocks offering a good div... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Palantir, Micron and SanDisk show how fast a stock can become the trade everyone suddenly wants. That's often when investors make their costliest mistake: arriving after the easy part of the move is gone.
A new premium eBook flags 7 stocks that may be worth knowing about before the broader crowd catches on. You don't need to buy any of them - just knowing what's quietly gaining attention can be useful. | | See the 7 stocks on the watchlist while it's still free |
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The S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) is up for the year, but it’s been a tough grind for most. While the broad market is up more than 20% year-to-date, the gains are centered in only two sectors and not all the stocks in those sectors are performing as well. Nine of the eleven sectors are down for th... Read the Full Story |
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Being a successful investor takes a lot of discipline, which is genuinely one of the deepest endeavors anyone can take on. Assuming you are not the average investor (you are here, so it's a safe assumption), you understand that a story without numbers is a fairytale and numbers without a story are... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Nvidia has invested more than 7 billion dollars into a light speed device that could reshape how AI systems operate.
Bill Gates put in over 200 million of his own money, while BlackRock, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley and Norway's sovereign wealth fund are positioning around it. Related stocks have already climbed 133 percent, 217 percent and 320 percent.
Wall Street analyst Jason Bodner, who called Nvidia at 4.50, is sharing his top pick tied to this trend at no cost. | | Click here to see Jason Bodner's free AI stock pick |
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Have you noticed how life has been getting slower lately? Summer and Spring travel is over for the most part, and the end-of-year bug has bitten everyone this month, especially those on Wall Street. The markets are absent for the most part; just take a look at the VIX!
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After being fairly range-bound and placid for the past eighteen months, shares of Domino's Pizza Inc (NYSE: DPZ) are finally starting to break out to the upside. The current rally has been underway since it bounced off a multi-year low last May, with the most recent stage of it having started just... Read the Full Story |
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REV Group (NYSE: REVG) struggled to retain and regain traction over the last two years as supply chain hurdles and industry normalization in the RV market took a toll on production and deliveries. However, the company leaned hard into the supply chain and operating improvements that began to take ... Read the Full Story |
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Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) had a weaker-than-expected FQ2 relative to analysts' expectations, but the outlook is as robust as ever. The biggest takeaway from the report is that weakness was caused by insufficient capacity, and capacity is ramping. The news for investors is that Oracle will continue to gr... Read the Full Story |
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Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) investor day event did not spark a serious change in the analysts' outlook, but it did paint a rosy picture of the company’s future. The takeaway is that the accelerator market is still in the discovery phase, getting bigger with every estimate and Advanc... Read the Full Story |
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Thursday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Qualigen Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. It offers FastPack, a patent-protected rapid, onsite immunoassay testing system. The company is developing QN-302 for the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; QN-247, an oligonucleotide-based drug candidate to treat various nucleolin-expressing cancers, including liquid and solid tumors; QN-165, a drug candidate for the potential broad-spectrum treatment of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19; RAS-F, a small-molecule RAS oncogene protein-protein inhibitor that blocks RAS mutations and inhibits tumor formation; and selective target antigen removal system, a therapeutic device to remove circulating tumor cells, viruses, inflammation factors, and immune checkpoints. Qualigen Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Carlsbad, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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