Good MorningThe S&P 500 is poised to hit a new all-time high and may make the move this week. If so, the next few months could see significant upside with a chance of hitting the 7,000 level by year's end. If not, the S&P 500 could stay range-bound until later in the year or, in a worst-case scenario, slide into a correction of 20% or more. However, the first scenario is more likely due to the outlook for earnings, cash flow, and capital returns. If the S&P 500 begins to correct, it will likely not be a deep pullback or last long without a fundamental change to the outlook.
This week's hurdles are economic and earnings-related. On the economic front, reports on manufacturing, housing, and the Index of Leading Indicators are due. They are expected to align with trends, including relative economic strength and spotty weakness. On the earnings front, the market must deal with a diminishing outlook for earnings growth in 2025, a headwind for sentiment and index prices. Featured: Elon’s BIGGEST warning yet? (Ad) 
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Stocks | | | U.S. stocks crept to a record as the S&P 500 nudged higher after a quiet Tuesday of trading.The main measure of Wall Street's health rose 0.2% to finish just above its all-time closing high set last month. Most of the stocks within the index rose, as it danced around the milestone through the d... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | As Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek continues to challenge American chip manufacturer NVIDIA for chip dominance, investors are looking to China for their next tech investments. Billionaire investor and founder of Appaloosa Management recently increased his firm’s holdings ... Read the Full Story |
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Tempus AI (NASDAQ: TEM) is a leader in precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector. Tempus AI’s stock price has seen an increase, with gains of over 160% in the last month and almost 150% year-to-date, causing investors to surge in interest.
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Cloud and other IT infrastructure and services provider Kyndryl Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KD) has impressed with a return of nearly 98% in the year leading to February 14, 2025. Indeed, as of that date, the stock is trading just below its all-time high achieved earlier in the month. As is so oft... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Germany hasn't seen significant economic growth in five years. It's a stunning turnaround for Europe's biggest economy, which for much of this century had expanded exports and dominated world trade in engineered products like industrial machinery and luxury cars. So what happened? Here are five reas... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Germany hasn't seen significant economic growth in five years. It's a stunning turnaround for Europe's biggest economy, which for much of this century had expanded exports and dominated world trade in engineered products like industrial machinery and luxury cars. So what happened? Here are five reas... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | China's President Xi Jinping met with private sector business leaders on Monday, offering them assurances that policies regarding the private sector would not change, state media reported, as government officials work to revive an economy disrupted by a pandemic, regulatory crackdowns and a real est... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Australia’s central bank on Tuesday reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020 as the nation’s inflation cools.The Reserve Bank of Australia reduced the cash rate by a quarter percentage point from 4.35% to 4.1% at its first board meeting for the year.The cut was widel... Read the Full Story |
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Shares of weight loss and diabetes medication maker Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) have slumped precipitously over the past 52 weeks. Shares are down 34% over that period as of the Feb. 13 close. The new year hasn’t provided a respite, with shares down over 8%. Shares are now trading l... Read the Full Story |
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Airbnb's (NASDAQ: ABNB) stock price surged over 14% on February 14, 2025, following the release of their impressive Q4 2024 financial results. However, the company's cautious forward-looking guidance tempers this enthusiasm, suggesting a more complex outlook for investors. While Airbnb's past perf... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Tapestry, Inc. provides luxury accessories and branded lifestyle products in the United States, Japan, Greater China, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. It offers women's handbags; and women's accessories, such as small leather goods which includes mini and micro handbags, money pieces, wristlets, pouches, and cosmetic cases, as well as novelty accessories including address books, time management and travel accessories, sketchbooks, and portfolios; and belts, key rings, and charms. The company also provides men products, which includes bag collections, such as business cases, computer bags, messenger-style bags, backpacks, and totes; small leather goods including wallets, card cases, travel organizers, and belts; and footwear, watches, fragrances, sunglasses, novelty accessories, and ready-to-wear items. In addition, it offers other products including women's footwear and fragrances; eyewear and sunglasses; and jewelry, such as bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings, watches, and other women's seasonal lifestyle apparel collections, including outerwear, ready-to-wear and cold weather accessories, such as gloves, scarves, and hats. Further, the company provides kids items, housewares, and home accessories, such as fashion bedding and tableware, stationery, and gifts. It offers its products through e-commerce sites and concession shop-in-shops, wholesale, and third-party distributors under the Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman brand names. The company was formerly known as Coach, Inc. and changed its name to Tapestry, Inc. in October 2017. Tapestry, Inc. was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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