Good MorningEquity investors face a trying week filled with economic data and the start of peak reporting for the Q1 period. The economic calendar includes CPI, PPI and retail sales data that could all point to trouble for the S&P 500. Inflation is expected to accelerate at the core level, given the rise in oil prices and retail sales will be weak. The combination suggests another FOMC rate hike is due, and consumer spending will continue to fall.
On the earnings front, reports from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo are due on Friday and market the start of the peak reporting season. The banks are expected to post solid increases in business but may give a cautious outlook given recent bank failures and the inflation outlook. Featured: The Robotics Revolution has arrived 
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Chip stocks are certainly having a moment, with the sub-industry consisting of fabless semiconductor makers being a top market leader. Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) is among the S&P 500’s biggest winners so far this year, posting a gain of 85.03%. Other industry components, such as Broadco... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | A proposal designed to thwart environmentally and socially conscious investing has cleared the Kansas Legislature but divisions within its GOP majorities kept the measure from being a strong as some conservatives wanted Read the Full Story |
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While First Republic Bank NYSE: FRC) remains too risky for average investors, it is an interesting speculative play. Given the suitable catalysts, the company has value despite its risk and could rebound. Among the potential catalysts are the company’s Q1 earnings which will be released on A... Read the Full Story |
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If you’re looking to jump onboard a rocket, forget Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Shares of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) catapulted 5.11% in the past week and 17.47% in the past month.
The big price moves follow news that its Kisqali breast-cancer treatment, combined ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | When Gadiel Galvez learned that the owner of his mobile home park south of Seattle was looking to sell, he and other residents worried their largely Latino community would be bulldozed to make way for another Amazon warehouse.So, they decided to form a cooperative and buy their park in Lakewood, Was... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay $500,000 to the owner and employees who sued over it six years ago. The Everett City Council voted unanimously this week to authorize Mayor Cassie Franklin to sign the settleme... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | The Swiss government says it's ordered cuts to the bonuses of top executives of Credit Suisse, with nearly 1,000 managers being “deprived” of tens of millions combined as the troubled bank heads toward a forced merger with rival UBS.The Federal Council, a seven-member panel that runs Switzerland's e... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | New Zealand's central bank surprised economists on Wednesday by imposing an aggressive half-point rate rise to bring its benchmark interest rate to 5.25%.It was the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's 11th straight rate hike as it tries to cool inflation, which is running at 7.2%, far above the bank's tar... Read the Full Story |
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The United States added 236,000 jobs in March, signaling increased economic activity for specific sectors of the economy despite FED efforts to slow down the economy and cool the labor market, thus avoiding the creation of additional pent-up demand and buying power from these added employees.
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The WD-40 Company (NYSE: WDFC) is facing headwinds like the rest of the market, but it is in a position to unstick the cogs of profitability and send its stock into a reversal. The company has been wrestling with inflation, supply chain issues and the need to raise prices which have impacted sales... Read the Full Story |
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Lumentum Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells optical and photonic products in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through two segments: Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers). The OpComms segment offers components, modules, and subsystems that enable the transmission and transport of video, audio, and data over high-capacity fiber optic cables. It offers tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules; tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators; transport products, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors, as well as components, including 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; and switches, attenuators, photodetectors, gain flattening filters, isolators, wavelength-division multiplexing filters, arrayed waveguide gratings, multiplex/de-multiplexers, and integrated passive modules. This segment also provides Super Transport Blade, which integrates optical transport functions into a single-slot blade; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. It serves customers in telecommunications, data communications, and consumer and industrial markets. The Commercial Lasers segment offers diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers, such as argon-ion and helium-neon lasers for use in original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves customers in markets and applications, such as sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, solar cell processing, graphics and imaging, remote sensing, and precision machining. Lumentum Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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