Good MorningPressure is building within the equity markets. Another round of better-than-expected data was released on Thursday, reinforcing that 1 or 2 more interest rate hikes are coming this year. The mounting fear has the S&P 500 down another 0.3% for the session and at the lowest levels in over a week. Friday's trading could be critical and determine the next big move, but risk is ahead. The next major catalyst for the market will come out next week, and it could be a big surprise.
The August read of CPI is due midweek and is expected to be hot. The question is how hot it could be, and it could be a more significant number than some wish. The price of oil has risen dramatically over the past 2 months, underpinning an increase in prices for airlines and truckers. That cost increase will be felt by other industries and bleed down to the consumer sooner or later. Featured: Trump’s treachery (Ad) 
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Coming up with an investment idea is the hardest part of the job. However, investors can add some worthwhile names to their watchlists after much - if not all - of the homework has been done for them. Interconnected sectors and industries typically provide great opportunities simultaneously, such ... Read the Full Story |
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As we bid farewell to the sun-soaked days of summer, heralded by the Labor Day long weekend, and prepare to embrace the impending chill of winter, a curious phenomenon unfolds in the world of stocks. As nature transitions through its seasons, specific stocks, often cyclical and sensitive to the ch... Read the Full Story |
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A significant but less-spoken or popular metric that investors should keep a watchful eye on is the institutional flow of capital into individual stocks. Institutional buying, often called "smart money," represents investments made by large, sophisticated financial entities such as mutual funds, p... Read the Full Story |
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Observability is a strong theme in 2023. It refers to the ability to simultaneously monitor your information technology (IT) infrastructure and apps, like the proverbial "eye in the sky" found in Vegas casinos. The more complicated enterprise IT infrastructures get, the tougher it is to monitor ev... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | Shares fell in Asia on Thursday after a decline on Wall Street, where strong economic data revived worries that the Federal Reserve might keep interest rates high for longer than investors had been hoping. Hong Kong's Hang Seng, which has bounced this week on news about Chinese policy changes for th... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Stocks edged higher on Friday, but not by enough to keep Wall Street from closing out its first losing week in the last three.The S&P 500 ticked up 6.35 points, or 0.1%, to 4,457.49 after falling for three straight days. It lost 1.3% for the week, which was shortened by the Labor Day holiday.The... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Pets provide joy and companionship, but costs can add up quickly, especially if you're a first-time owner and don't know what to expect.Many prospective dog or cat owners only focus on the positive aspects of bringing a furry friend into their lives. And there are countless reasons why pets are grea... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Poland's central bank lowered its interest rates by 75 basis points on Wednesday despite the country's double-digit inflation rate. The move prompted concerns that the central bank was wading into politics with a premature rate cut to help the populist governing party ahead of parliamentary election... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | The Federal Reserve has reached a delicate stage in its fight against inflation.Its policymakers have raised their key interest rate to about 5.4%, its highest level in 22 years, to try to slow borrowing and spending and cool inflation pressures. They now are considering whether to raise the rate ev... Read the Full Story |
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The times have changed, and many in our society have no idea how much. The FOMC increased interest rates at an historic pace over the past 18 months, and it will be years before the impacts have run their course. Economists estimate up to 2 years for a single rate hike to run its course, which mea... Read the Full Story |
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Friday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Invesco Ltd. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to retail clients, institutional clients, high-net worth clients, public entities, corporations, unions, non-profit organizations, endowments, foundations, pension funds, financial institutions, and sovereign wealth funds. It manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. The firm also launches equity, fixed income, commodity, multi-asset, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. It launches equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and balanced exchange-traded funds. The firm also launches and manages private funds. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in alternative markets, such as commodities and currencies. For the equity portion of its portfolio, it invests in growth and value stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. For the fixed income portion of its portfolio, the firm invests in convertibles, government bonds, municipal bonds, treasury securities, and cash. It also invests in short term and intermediate term bonds, investment grade and high yield bonds, taxable and tax-free bonds, senior secured loans, and structured securities such as asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, and commercial mortgage-backed securities. The firm employs absolute return, global macro, and long/short strategies. It employs quantitative analysis to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as Invesco Plc, AMVESCAP plc, Amvesco plc, Invesco PLC, Invesco MIM, and H. Lotery & Co. Ltd. Invesco Ltd. was founded in 1935 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with an additional office in Hamilton, Bermuda. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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