Good MorningEquity markets started the week on a cautious footing, with the S&P 500 hovering in a tight range near record highs. A move to new highs seems inevitable, but the question of when it will come remains. This week's hurdles include economic data such as Tuesday's home builders confidence index. The index slipped deeper into contractionary territory as home builders warned of the impact of tariffs and high interest rates. The Empire State Manufacturing Survey was the other critical read on Tuesday, and it came in better than expected and showed expansionary conditions.
In stock news, shares of Intel popped more than 10% on news it could be broken up. The semiconductor giant is struggling with relevance in a rapidly evolving technological landscape and may be worth more to investors if broken up. The potential buyers include Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor. Broadcom is interested in Intel's chip design and marketing business, while Taiwan Semiconductor eyes the foundry footprint. Featured: Not plywood. A power breakthrough. (Ad) 
|
Consumer Discretionary | |
While Starbucks Co. (NASDAQ: SBUX) captured headlines in 2024 under former Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.’s (NYSE: CMG) superstar CEO Brian Niccol’s turnaround efforts, Dutch Bros Inc. (NYSE: BROS) has been quietly outperforming, delivering double the returns. Dutch Bros stock is up 56% y... Read the Full Story |
|
From Our Partners | Growing a $1,000,000-plus portfolio in retirement takes more than luck. The goal is lasting income, not running out of money.
The Seven Secrets of High Net Worth Investors from Fisher Investments outlines the strategies wealthy investors rely on to manage their wealth.
Since 1979, Fisher Investments has helped tens of thousands of investors retire comfortably, managing over $441 billion in assets. | | Download the free guide and learn the seven strategies today |
|
Healthcare | |
There are a few stocks that come along every once in a while, arriving to change the way an old-fashioned industry works and operates. When investors get lucky enough to find one of them, it can typically bring on life-changing returns, even retiring them from active work if they choose to go that... Read the Full Story |
|
Consumer Discretionary | |
The introduction of the cutting-edge, chip-efficient AI chat model DeepSeek sent markets into a frenzy in late January, sparking an American AI sell-off. Featuring twice the computing power at a fraction of the cost of models like ChatGPT, the introduction of DeepSeek was particularly painful for ... Read the Full Story |
|
From Our Partners | ChatGPT and Claude don't actually see the market. They guess from stale training data and end every stock question with please consult a financial advisor.
AltIndex Pro's new native MCP integration changes that. Connect ChatGPT or Claude once, and every stock question pulls from real-time alt-data: hiring, insider activity, Reddit sentiment, web traffic, and app downloads. | | Try AltIndex Pro free for 7 days and upgrade your AI |
|
Finance | |
There have been recent developments in the real estate sector guiding investors to become fearful of investing in stocks related to the space. However, not all stocks may be exposed to this level of downside risk in the housing market, as some do carry better risk-to-reward setups behind them, and... Read the Full Story |
|
Technology | |
Analysts say NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a buy ahead of earnings because the results will be robust, high-double-digit growth is likely, and the guidance will also be sound. The long-term outlook is also robust because the semiconductor company has been investing in its full stack of AI products and ... Read the Full Story |
|
From Our Partners | | For decades, firms like Renaissance, Two Sigma, and Citadel used automated trading systems to profit from market movement itself, not direction.
Vincere Portfolios now licenses similar institutional-quality futures algorithms directly to individual investors, running automatically inside their own brokerage accounts with no leverage and a 70-plus month track record. | | See how a $120,000 account has compounded since 2020 |
|
Consumer Discretionary | |
In December 2024, the travel industry hit an important milestone, at least in terms of air travel. That is, traffic in many continents exceeded 2019 levels for the first time since the 2020 pandemic. One of the key reasons for this is the return of the business traveler.
Total U.S. travel spendin... Read the Full Story |
|
Consumer Discretionary | |
Despite the ongoing threat of tariffs, billion-dollar hedge fund Appaloosa Management is betting on Chinese AI picks — at the expense of American tech giants. According to a holdings filing released in early February, the fund had adjusted its holdings to devote about 37% of assets to China-... Read the Full Story |
|
Technology | |
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) FQ2 results weren’t the inflection point the analysts had hoped for, but the uptrend will continue because AI is good for business. To paraphrase CEO Nikesh Arora, AI and advancing digital technologies are good for cybersecurity businesses because with eac... Read the Full Story |
|
Consumer Discretionary | |
When the stock market seems to be on a roll, trending ever so higher without much interruption, there comes a point when the excess returns begin to concentrate in a single area while leaving most other worthy names behind. Today, as the broader S&P 500 hovers near its all-time high prices, a ... Read the Full Story |
|
Technology | | The pullback in shares of the mid-cap semiconductor stock Semtech (NASDAQ: SMTC) has been extremely stark in 2025. Shares are down 40% as of the Feb. 14 close. Despite this, shares have still notched an impressive return of nearly 85% over the past 52 weeks. So, what’s driving this big decline... Read the Full Story |
|
Wednesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day GE Vernova LLC, an energy business company, generates electricity. It operates under three segments: Power, Wind, and Electrification. The Power segments generates and sells electricity through hydro, gas, nuclear, and steam power. Wind segment engages in the manufacturing and sale of wind turbine blades; and Electrification segment provides grid solutions, power conversion, solar, and storage solutions. The company was incorporated in 2023 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
|
