Good MorningEquity markets traded in a tight range on Monday as investors brace for the next PCE inflation report. The report is due on Friday and is not expected to give the Fed or the markets a reprieve. The index may cool at the headline level compared to last year, but the month-to-month figure is expected to accelerate to 0.4% and core inflation will remain steady at 4.6%. This may give the Fed room to pause but does not signal the need for rates to fall.
This week brings another round of earnings from the retail sector. Lowe's kicks it off this morning and may leave the market wanting more. Signals of shifting spending habits have cut into discretionary spending, and competitor Home Depot did not inspire confidence for 2023. As it is, the consensus estimates for 2023 earnings continue to deteriorate, which is a dead weight for the S&P 500. Featured: 66,000% upside on tiny biotech? (Behind the Markets) 
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Markets | | Festus Nyoni picked out a few items in a supermarket in Zimbabwe’s capital, looked at the prices and knew she was in the wrong place.She abandoned her shopping cart and headed for a nearby street jammed with traders offering bargains in U.S. dollars. From the trunk of a car, she picked toiletries, r... Read the Full Story >> |
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Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) and Global-e Online (NASDAQ: GLBE) are members of the 2022 class of IPOs. The 1st came to market as a reverse merger, while the other went the traditional IPO route with NASDAQ. Both are involved in developing, marketing, and selling technology to the retail industry and are... Read the Full Story >> |
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The financials sector is the worst performer in the past three months, which should come as no surprise following multiple regional bank failures and scares.
But large-cap financials Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) all got ca... Read the Full Story >> |
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Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOT) delivered mixed fourth-quarter earnings on May 17, 2023. The specialty retailer that offers footwear, apparel, and accessories with a western theme beat expectations on the bottom line. Earnings per share (EPS) of $1.53 beat expectations of $1.45. The number... Read the Full Story >> |
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Markets | | Asian stock markets slid Wednesday as the U.S. government crept closer to a potentially disruptive default on its debt.Tokyo's main market index lost more than 1%. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul also declined. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index fell 1.1% after Speaker Kevin McCarthy of the Hou... Read the Full Story >> |
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Markets | | An image of black smoke billowing next to a bureaucratic-looking building spread across social media Monday morning, with the claim that it showed an explosion near the Pentagon. The posts sent a brief shiver through the stock market as they were quickly picked up by news outlets outside the U.S., b... Read the Full Story >> |
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monday.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: MNDY) provides workflow collaboration and customer relationship management (CRM) software applications used by over 180,000 companies. monday.com is used by 59% of the Fortune 500 companies through 200 countries in more than 14 languages and services more than 200 industri... Read the Full Story >> |
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Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider C3.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AI) surprised investors by raising its fiscal Q4 2023 earnings two weeks before its release. It sent shares surging 40% higher, taking complacent shorts entirely by surprise.
The AI spotlight c... Read the Full Story >> |
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Tech | | Alaska's push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including the controversial Willow oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope.At... Read the Full Story >> |
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