Good MorningResilient equity markets were able to advance in the prior week. The S&P 500 gained more than 1% to trade just shy of record highs. The move came in the face of hot inflation and weak retail sales data, revealing a market focused on earnings and capital returns, which are expected to grow robustly this year.
Next week's hurdles center around the FOMC minutes. The minutes will likely reveal a hawkish Fed and affirm the diminished expectations for interest rate reduction this year. Featured: SAGA Metals nears a key milestone in critical minerals race (Ad) 
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Industrials | |
Markets have hit shares of robotic warehouse systems company Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) hard over the past 52 weeks. Shares of the industrials stock have lost nearly 37% of their value as of the Feb. 13 close. Retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is a huge Symbotic customer, a testament to the company&rsq... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Barrick Mining has spent decades building one of Nevada's richest gold districts, anchored by Fourmile, Goldrush, and Cortez Hills, deposits that could hold up to 60 million ounces of gold.
One overlooked explorer controls 142 claims bordering Fourmile and sitting less than a mile from Goldrush. New geological modeling aims to reveal what's beneath this largely untested ground, while a planned 5% royalty spin-off could give shareholders a separate stake in the project. | | Read the full report before the next catalyst hits |
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Consumer Discretionary | |
Discount retailers have become an attractive investment opportunity due to the current economic climate of persistent inflation. As consumers face rising costs for goods and services, the appeal of discount retailers, who offer consistently lower prices than traditional retail sector outlets, grow... Read the Full Story |
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Communication Services | |
Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), one of the hotter stocks in the gaming industry over the past 52 weeks, just had much of its 2025 gains wiped out. Prior to the company’s latest earnings report, shares were up over 30% on the year. As of the Feb. 13 close, markets have pared those gains down to just 1... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Trader Chris Pulver says a new SEC document dropping the day-trading limit to $2,000 has created the biggest retail opportunity he has seen in over 30 years.
His strategy targets what he calls Flashpoints - moments when market makers must move billions of dollars on the S-P 500 in a narrow window. Research shows one recent signal would have returned 83.7% in 36 minutes and another 62.8% in 51 minutes.
Lance Ippolito flew to Utah for a full breakdown of the method. | | Tap here to see the complete Flashpoint trading breakdown now |
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Energy | |
Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) announced it was laying off approximately 20% of its global workforce by the end of 2026. The company announced the moves as an effort to cut costs, simplify its business, and complete its ongoing merger with Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES).
After falling about 2% on the announce... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | |
As reports that inflation heated up in January 2025 emerged on February 12, the market shuddered, with the Dow dropping by more than 300 points in morning trading. The recent Consumer Price Index report may be enough to prompt investors to take a cautious stance, particularly as the impact of rece... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Lance Ippolito spent nearly two decades trading the markets, appearing on MoneyShow, Cheddar TV, CNN Money, and MarketBeat.
His free guide, Options Trading Explained, covers two tickers pros call their secret weapon, Wall Street's daily hidden edge, and a strategy that targets payouts around 4 PM ET.
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Consumer Discretionary | | The market’s memory is still fresh when it comes to the volatility induced by the NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ: NVDA) flash sell-off that came from the DeepSeek debacle in China. However, the relationship between NVIDIA and China goes well beyond that recent incident. What investors may or may not know ... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Twilio’s (NYSE: TWLO) pullback is the time to buy this stock because it offers an opportune discount in a high-quality tech-growth stock with AI and automation exposure. The stock price rose by 50% in January, extending a trend that began in 2024 and was driven by reinvigorated growth and ... Read the Full Story |
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Materials | |
There comes a time every once in a cycle when the market gets too invested in either a bullish or bearish view, and just like any other physical marketplace, the stock market can then trigger a major shift to the opposite end of this concentrated view. Investors can imagine the bottlenecks and man... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) latest earnings report exceeded analyst expectations, indicating a potential resurgence for the technology company. As a result, Cisco's stock price rose to new yearly highs, and investor confidence was seemingly renewed.
Additionally, Cisco announced a stock buybac... Read the Full Story |
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Materials | |
Investors are typically – and justifiably – careful about investing in any given stock around the company’s earnings season since volatility is usually elevated for the days before, during, and after the financial announcements. However, every once in a while, the market will giv... Read the Full Story |
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day BriaCell Therapeutics Corp., a clinical stage immuno-oncology company, engages in developing targeted immunotherapies to transform cancer care. Its lead candidate is Bria-IMT, a targeted cell-based immunotherapy that is being evaluated in a pivotal Phase 3 combination study for metastatic breast cancer. The company is also developing Bria-OTS, a platform of personalized off-the-shelf cell-based immunotherapies, which is being evaluated in a Phase 1/2 clinical studies targeting breast cancer with extension to prostate cancer and other cancers. BriaCell Therapeutics Corp. is based in West Vancouver, Canada. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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