Good MorningEquity markets advanced on Monday with the S&P 500 setting a new all-time high. The move is due to an improvement in the economic outlook and robust AI spending trends. The question is whether the index will outperform its Q2 forecasts when the reports start coming in, and the odds are high that it will. The index can continue to move higher in this scenario and may begin to accelerate by the end of the reporting cycle.
This week's hurdle is the monthly labor data. The data is expected to reveal ongoing resilience within the labor markets, affirming the outlook for economic growth in Q2. The risk is that the data will reflect a larger-than-expected slowdown in employment, although the trends in weekly jobless claims do not suggest this. The takeaway for investors is that the U.S. economy remains in a healthy condition and that S&P 500 earnings are expected to have grown in Q2 and to continue growing in Q3 and Q4. Featured: The Calm Before the Rotation — What’s Quietly Building Now (Stock Wire News) (Ad) 
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Considering how much pain investors of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) had to endure during the first quarter of the year, there are perhaps not many on Wall Street who thought they'd manage to gain the better part of 50% in less than three months.
However, that's exactly what they've done, largely than... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Palantir, Micron and SanDisk show how fast a stock can become the trade everyone suddenly wants. That's often when investors make their costliest mistake: arriving after the easy part of the move is gone.
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Markets | | The benchmark process is at the core of measuring financial market performance, and seeing a single stock or asset class perform on its own offers very little information to investors unless it is benchmarked against another useful and related name or space, where the entire methodology comes into p... Read the Full Story |
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The biopharmaceuticals space is notorious for sudden, sharp rallies, and for precipitous sell-offs as well. The industry is crowded with names, many of which are tiny firms working toward developing a small number of drug candidates and lacking a means of achieving profitability until one or more ... Read the Full Story |
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Several notable stocks, associated with everything from President Trump to pasta dinners, are significantly boosting their buybacks. Together, these newly announced programs add over $10 billion in fresh repurchase capacity to the stock market. While the reasons vary, the message is clear: these c... Read the Full Story |
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Earnings season was a surprising success for a large portion of the S&P 500, as companies demonstrated unexpected resilience despite tariff wars, worrisome economic data, and declining sentiment. Strong reports have fueled major indices to new all-time highs, but not every industry leader is g... Read the Full Story |
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Insiders sold stocks in Q2, which could present a headwind for some markets in Q3. However, in most cases, the selling aligns with trends, revealing that share-based compensation is in play and profit-taking is also a factor.
This article looks at the three hottest insider sells from Q2 and wha... Read the Full Story |
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Every investor is familiar with one of the most successful and widely followed stories in the market today, particularly in the world of aerospace and defense stocks. However, there is a new stock in the mix that has proven to be potentially just as successful as its leading peer (if not more) d... Read the Full Story |
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In a market dominated by AI hype cycles and rapid-fire momentum trades, there’s something comforting and effective about sticking to time-tested principles. For long-term investors who prioritize steady income, low volatility, and compounding growth, diverse and broad-based blue-chip dividen... Read the Full Story |
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has long been regarded as a tech juggernaut, anchored by its dominance in search, advertising, and YouTube. But behind the scenes, the company has been investing heavily in moonshot ventures through its Other Bets segment, with Waymo, its autonomous driving unit, ar... Read the Full Story |
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The S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) ended Q2 and H1 2025 with a bang, rising to set a new all-time high and is likely to continue higher in Q3. This is a look at five reasons why investors can expect the rally to continue, and how high the S&P 500 may go. Technically speaking, the move to new high... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day DoorDash, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a commerce platform that connects merchants, consumers, and independent contractors in the United States and internationally. The company operates DoorDash Marketplace and Wolt Marketplace, which provide various services, such as customer acquisition, demand generation, order fulfillment, merchandising, payment processing, and customer support. It also offers membership products, including DashPass and Wolt+; DoorDash Drive and Wolt Drive, which are white-label delivery fulfillment services that enable merchants that have generated consumer demand through their channels to fulfill demand using its platform; DoorDash Storefront that enables merchants to offer consumers on-demand access to e-commerce; and Bbot, which offers merchants digital ordering and payment solutions for in-store and online channels. In addition, the company enables merchants to advertise and promote on its platform to acquire consumers. The company was formerly known as Palo Alto Delivery Inc. and changed its name to DoorDash, Inc. in 2015. DoorDash, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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