Good MorningEquity markets started the week on solid footing, advancing to close near record highs. The move comes after last week's labor market data, which shows resilient, healthy conditions. The takeaway is that clouds may obscure the economic outlook, but employment is good, and consumers are financially healthy.
This week's hurdles include retail sales and CPI data. Retail sales are not expected to grow robustly but show solid conditions, while CPI is forecasted to be hot. Analysts predict CPI will increase at the headline level and push the timing for interest rate reduction further out. Featured: Could this be crypto's biggest Trump win? (Ad) 
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Now that the first quarter of 2025 is underway, investors across the board are probably looking to find the best ideas to get their portfolios started on the right foot. This way, they can have not only the momentum but also the liquidity necessary to chase the growth plays that will become availa... Read the Full Story |
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When retail investors prepare to identify the best opportunities in the market, they typically look to the momentum and buying activity coming from Wall Street analysts and other professional investors or traders. With this in mind, a few indicators apart from normal stock buying activity mean inf... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | U.S. stocks rose Monday as Wall Street took President Donald Trump’s latest threat on tariffs in stride.The S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, coming off a losing week that was bookended by worries about how potential tariffs could push up inflation and threaten the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Avera... Read the Full Story |
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Recent breaking news gave Uber (NYSE: UBER) investors a welcome boost as the stock swung into positive territory over the past year. The ride-hailing giant, which had significantly underperformed over the previous year, surged 6.59% on Friday and over 11% for the week following its Q4 2024 ... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | Wall Street held relatively firm on Tuesday following President Donald Trump’s latest tariff escalation and after the Federal Reserve hinted interest rates may not change for a while.The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged and edged up by less than 0.1% in the market’s first trading since Trump ann... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | All architecture student Amirhossein Azizi wanted for his 19th birthday was the latest iPhone — and for Iran's cash-strapped theocracy, it was just the gift they needed as well. Just buying a top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro Max in Iran's capital cost him on the day 1.6 billion rials ($1,880). An addit... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Improving international sales helped McDonald’s overcome some weakness at home in the fourth quarter, but the company said it expects U.S. sales to pick up later this year.McDonald's said its sales are continuing to recover from an E. coli outbreak last fall tied to its Quarter Pounder hamburgers. T... Read the Full Story |
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Big pharma has come under a lot of scrutiny from regulators and consumers as sentiment sours on the industry. As such, the market can be unforgiving when companies even slightly miss expectations or forecasts. This is the case with Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK), as shares lost over 10% after ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Americans’ bank accounts are safe despite the Trump administration's shutdown of a consumer financial regulatory agency, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday.Powell, testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, said “bank accounts overall across the economy are safe” and backed by gov... Read the Full Story |
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Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) can hit new all-time highs this year because it capitalizes on AI and business automation like every other technology company would be happy to accomplish. It is growing its user base, deepening penetration of services, and doing so among the world’s largest ... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day United States Steel Corporation produces and sells flat-rolled and tubular steel products primarily in North America and Europe. The company operates through North American Flat-Rolled (Flat-Rolled), Mini Mill, U. S. Steel Europe (USSE), and Tubular Products (Tubular) segments. The Flat-Rolled segment offers slabs, strip mill plates, sheets, and tin mill products, as well as iron ore and coke. This segment serves customers in the service center, conversion, transportation, automotive, construction, container, appliance, and electrical markets. The Mini Mill segment provides hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and coated sheets and electrical steel products. This segment serves customers in the automotive, construction, pipe and tube, sheet converter, electrical, solar industrial equipment, and service center markets. The USSE segment provides slabs, strip mill plates, sheets, tin mill products, and spiral welded pipes. This segment serves customers in the construction, container, appliance and electrical, service center, conversion, oil, gas, and petrochemical markets. The Tubular segment offers seamless and electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing products, as well as standard and line pipe and mechanical tubing products primarily to customers in the oil, gas, and petrochemical markets. It also engages in the real estate business. United States Steel Corporation was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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