Good MorningEquity markets rebounded last week but may be heading nowhere fast. The high volatility index indicates an elevated level of fear heading into a critical week. Not only is the FOMC meeting this week and it is expected to make the first interest rate cuts since 2020, but it is also triple witching.
Triple Witching is when equity, index, and index futures options expire on the same day and may result in significant buying or selling. In this case, the odds are high that traders will sell because the S&P 500 is up 20% for the year, and options prices are elevated.
Other news due out this week is the retail sales data. The retail sales are expected to have grown compared to last month and last year but are unlikely to spark another rally. The trends suggest sluggish growth at best and barely enough to offset inflation, if at all. Featured: The 2026 IPO class, screened down to 7 (Ad) 
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Bonds play a central role in the investment strategies of many defensive or conservative investors. The price of bonds shifts in an inverse fashion compared to yields, meaning that as the Federal Reserve sets a higher interest rate, bond prices tend to fall. Similarly, when the Fed reduces rates&m... Read the Full Story |
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Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) is a high-tech stock that has had a painful go of it as of late, but many are still bullish on the name. Overall, the average price target of $43.23 implies that it has the potential to be a double-bagger investment. Let's dive into what the company does, how its financial p... Read the Full Story |
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Energy | |
The worldwide maritime shipping industry is essential to distributing goods, including raw materials, commodities, gasoline, and jet fuel. With an impact on a host of different industries, shipping is in many ways a bellwether for global economic health.
In the U.S., the lead-up to the 2024 presi... Read the Full Story |
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Celsius Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELH) is the maker of the popular Celsius energy drink, formulated to power active lifestyles with its unique blend of essential vitamins. Celsius’s line of energy drinks has gained a loyal following among fitness enthusiasts and people with active lifestyle... Read the Full Story |
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Kroger's (NYSE: KR) stock price has struggled since early 2022 when the pandemic-driven bubble burst. There are still hurdles, including the stalled merger with Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI), but they are diminishing, and investors are faced with a win-win situation regardless of them. The comp... Read the Full Story |
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The utility sector is typically known for its steady but unspectacular performance, but it has shocked the market with an electrifying surge in 2024. Despite its defensive nature, the sector has climbed over 20% year-to-date, outpacing the broader market and defying expectations. This remarkable p... Read the Full Story |
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Investors needn’t worry about Adobe’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) near-term price action because of the longer-term value gains derived from its quality. Adobe investors should instead focus on the bullish longer-term price action. The chart of monthly prices shows this leading SaaS provider that... Read the Full Story |
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At any given time in the stock market, there are a couple of unknown and uncovered trends that could become one of the “I wish I bought” plays a few years later. Some people regret not buying into NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ: NVDA) before it was NVIDIA; others wish they had bought Carvana Co. (... Read the Full Story |
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Certain stocks stand out as attractively priced and well-positioned for potential appreciation for value investors focused on long-term growth with a defensive approach. While not isolated from risks and challenges, the three companies discussed below trade at favorable valuations based on P/E rat... Read the Full Story |
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Investors are hearing much about sector rotation, particularly out of technology stocks. But if you’re considering reallocating some of your risk-on assets, you’ll want to ensure you don’t miss out on where the opportunities still lie. One area is cybersecurity.
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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