Good MorningU.S. stocks remain near record highs even as investors voice unease about a market priced for perfection and concentrated in a handful of mega-cap names. Heavy trading in big tech stocks, including NVIDIA, has coincided with short-term volatility in risk assets. Bitcoin briefly dipped below $90,000 before rebounding. Some companies are signaling confidence through buybacks, while others navigate patchy consumer demand.
Tech and AI developments continued to shape the tape. Google rolled Gemini 3 into Search, Microsoft struck a major cloud deal with Anthropic and NVIDIA and appears to be diversifying beyond OpenAI, and the EU is weighing extra scrutiny of AWS and Azure. Meta won a major antitrust battle and will not be forced to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp, a decision likely to ease regulatory overhang for social-media peers.
On the consumer and industrial front, Home Depot reported a mixed quarter and trimmed guidance amid softer housing activity, Kroger is closing several automated fulfillment centers to cut costs, and Amazon’s Zoox expands robotaxi trials. Meanwhile, natural gas has surged, boosting energy stocks as winter demand and strong LNG exports underpin the rally. Featured: Elon’s big $266,000 per second purchase (Ad) 
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Consumer Staples | |
Every year, around this time, consumers hear about how much their Thanksgiving dinner will cost compared to the previous year. Whether that number is higher or lower impacts our wallets.
Here’s the bad news. Over the last month, food prices have begun to rise slightly. That may be coming a... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | |
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is rarely a bad stock to hold, but it is occasionally a poor choice to buy. The best times to buy are not when the price is at a peak, above its moving averages, or showing resistance. Instead, good buying opportunities include setups like the one in mid-November after the ... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Shares of Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) were down another 2% early on Tuesday, Nov. 18, sliding below $163 as the broader market sell-off began to gain momentum. The move meant they had now erased all post-earnings gains from last month’s breakout, leaving the stock down more than 20% from ... Read the Full Story |
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Retail/Wholesale | |
For a stock that hit a fresh all-time high as recently as the start of November, it may come as a surprise that there’s a bearish argument at all calling for a sell-off.
But despite shares of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) having popped into blue sky territory after their earnings at the e... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | |
In one of the most decisive strategic moves in the biotech sector this year, pharmaceutical titan Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) has committed a formidable $9.2 billion in cash to acquire Cidara Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CDTX).
The announcement immediately sent Cidara’s stock price rocketing ove... Read the Full Story |
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Auto/Tires/Trucks | |
Stellantis (NYSE: STLA) experienced a significant turnaround in the third quarter of 2025, rebounding from a challenging first half of the year that resulted in a net loss. This sharp reversal, along with continued strategic advancement after the earnings report, suggests that the company is now i... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
2025 has been characterized by several key investment themes, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and memory chip stocks. Not least among these themes is the market’s attraction to nuclear energy stocks. As of the Nov. 17 close, the VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF (NYSEAR... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has gone from laggard to leader in the second half of the year, a shift that hasn’t gone unnoticed on Wall Street. After trailing the broader market and its Magnificent Seven peers earlier in the year, Alphabet has now flipped the script. Shares are up an impressiv... Read the Full Story |
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Aerospace | |
The race to bring electric air taxis to market is entering a new, more critical phase. For years, the focus has been on a simple question: "Can the aircraft fly?" But as the technology matures, investors in the aerospace sector are shifting focus to commercialization and profitability.
For Vertic... Read the Full Story |
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Finance | |
At one point in early November, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) briefly topped 48,000 for the first time ever. At different times in 2025, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 have made new all-time highs (ATHs). Despite sharp price swings, it's been a solid year to own stocks.
Yet many economists,... Read the Full Story |
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