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: The case for trading fewer setups, not more (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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From Our Partners | | Oracle runs 15,000 stocks through the same filter every single day, scanning for precise setups before the opening bell - no emotion, no guesswork.
Tim Bohen, Lead Trainer at StocksToTrade, is walking through this week's flagged setups and showing exactly how the scanner works in a live training right now. | | Watch the scanner in action and join the live training now |
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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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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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From Our Partners | | Every morning before the market opens, a scanner called Oracle runs through 15,000 stocks and scores the setups — so there's already a plan in place by 6:15 a.m.
Lead Trainer Tim Bohen of StocksToTrade is walking through exactly how Oracle works and how regular traders are using it in a training running right now. | | Watch the Oracle training now and see how the scanner works |
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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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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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From Our Partners | | The U.S. government has taken roughly a 10% stake in Intel, negotiated a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China, and reportedly received a 5% ownership offer - worth around $40 billion - from the most valuable AI company on earth.
Porter Stansberry calls it the New U.S.A.I. - a state-backed arrangement where Washington and a handful of tech giants are fused at the balance sheet. A small number of companies get pulled inside. Everyone else gets frozen out, including names sitting in your index fund right now. | | Watch the documentary to see which companies are on the right side |
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You’re familiar with its products, including Tylenol, Neutrogena, Listerine and Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. Still, you may not be up to speed on Kenvue Inc. (NYSE: KVUE) and its status as a long-term dividend payer.
Kenvue is now a holding within the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristo... Read the Full Story |
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GameStop (NASDAQ: GME) reported Q2 earnings, and shares are moving. While the market is up in early premarket trading, there is no guarantee the market will continue to rally. As bullish as the bulls are, the bull-case thesis is sketchy, and the bears are equally sure they’re right.
The bot... Read the Full Story |
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The AI industry is in high gear, and the money flows fast into all segments. Among the most promising segments are AI apps and services, which will be the largest portion of the market over time. The estimates vary, but the AI industry will undoubtedly grow at a solid double-digit CAGR for at leas... Read the Full Story |
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One of the main questions that investors ask themselves when coming up with investment ideas is whether their bull case is already priced into the stock. If it is, then the upside to be had becomes relatively small, even if the thesis turns out to be correct.
Shares of Shake Shack Inc. (NYSE: SHA... Read the Full Story |
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The digital payments revolution has reshaped the financial landscape, transforming the transactions are conducted and the management of money. In this dynamic era, three prominent contenders vie for the lion's share of the market: Block (NASDAQ: SQ), PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL), and Visa I... 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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