Good MorningIt's the first trading week of the New Year, and all eyes will be on the data. The monthly labor market data is due over the week and may lead the market to a new high. Solid employment and wage gains will help clear the path to a soft landing, allowing the FOMC to start cutting rates early in the year. As it is, the market expects the first cuts by March.
Earnings season begins next week with reports from the big banks. The banks will likely report robust gains driven by high interest rates; the question is what condition the consumer is in. Consumer spending is the driving force of the US economy; a shock to the spending outlook will undercut the outlook for earnings and any rally that may form in the S&P 500. Featured: Forget Tesla: This ticker could double it (Ad) 
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Interest rates, set by the Federal Reserve (aka “the Fed”), have widespread economic influence. When the Fed changes rates, it affects the cost of borrowing, investment decisions, savings returns, housing markets, bond prices, currency values, stock prices and overall economic activity... Read the Full Story |
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A new FED has come into play to end 2023 with a major surprise for most investors out there trying to find a direction to bet on and the implications this new view has are plenty, but today, you will focus on how it affects one stock in particular. Because of where Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) tra... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | There’s been no shortage of tough news for China’s economy as some of the world’s biggest brands consider or take action to shift manufacturing to friendlier shores at a time of unease about security controls, protectionism and wobbly relations between Beijing and Washington.Count Adidas, Apple and ... Read the Full Story |
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Oprah Winfrey revealed she has lost over 60 pounds and is on the path to reaching her weight goal of 167 lbs. She credits this to taking GLP-1 medication and WW International Inc. (NYSE: WW) (WeightWatchers) principles of nutrition and exercise. Winfrey has been a spokesperson, board member and sh... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains.The benchmark S&P 500 index is just 0.3% from an all-time high after a gain of 24.6% in 2023. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at a record 37,710.10. The Nasdaq shows a year-to-d... Read the Full Story |
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Apple Inc. (NYSE: AAPL) had a stellar 2023, gaining 49.39% for 2023 while maintaining the largest weighting in the S&P 500. While the technology sector juggernaut continues to grow, its sales have been stagnating to single digits, causing investors to wonder if shares are overvalued. Its Teflo... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Asian markets opened the year on a downward trend after Wall Street benchmarks ticked lower on the last trading day of 2023. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices gained more than $1 a barrel. Japan's markets were closed for a holiday.The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong sank 1.5% to 16,800.73 and the ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Premarket trading is mixed in a low-volume trading holiday week on Wall Street. Futures for the S&P 500 were virtually unchanged before the bell Thursday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose nearly 0.3%.Trading has been subdued in the last tra... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world’s second-largest economy remains sluggish. The official purchasing managers index, or PMI, fell to 49 last month in what officials said was evidence of weak demand, the National Bureau of St... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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