Good MorningStocks opened the year with AI leaders again in the spotlight as investors carried momentum from 2025, when the S&P 500 returned about 18%. Names tied to the AI rally including NVIDIA and Alphabet set the tone on the first trading day, and retail enthusiasm for big 2026 ideas remains a clear market theme.
Energy swung into focus after President Donald Trump announced plans to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry, sending U.S. energy shares sharply higher. Crude futures also ticked up, reflecting the market parsing potential longer term supply shifts even as near-term global inventories remain ample.
A policy shift could reshape multinational tax expectations: the OECD’s amended global tax deal reportedly exempts U.S.-based multinationals from the planned 15% minimum on overseas profits. Meanwhile, hefty share buybacks that delivered double-digit yields in 2025 continue to be a key capital-return tool that could support earnings per share and investor returns in 2026. Featured: $40 Trillion in Debt… And They Know Where YOUR Money Is (Ad) 
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SentinelOne (NYSE: S) stock has struggled for years as slowing growth, fierce competition, and, more recently, macroeconomic headwinds and a CFO departure have sapped investor confidence.
However, while concerns surrounding this cybersecurity company are real, the impact on the stock price has be... Read the Full Story |
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Insiders are selling some tech stocks critical to AI, including NVIDIA, signalling potential risks, but investors shouldn’t raise a red flag. The stocks on this list rose by double digits in 2025, providing ample incentives for employees receiving share-based compensation to sell shares. The... Read the Full Story |
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Despite notable volatility, the S&P 500 Index delivered an 18% total return in 2025—its third consecutive year of 15% or higher gains. However, the strength was not evenly distributed across all 11 sectors.
Only three outperformed the broader index, driven by distinct tailwinds such as ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The Wall Street Journal is already raising the alarm about a potential market crash, and Weiss Ratings research points to the first half of 2026 as a particularly rough stretch for certain holdings.
Some of America's most popular stocks could take serious damage as a radical market shift plays out. Analysts at Weiss Ratings have identified five names you may want to remove from your portfolio before this unfolds.
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In 2025, over 200 companies had their initial public offerings (IPOs) on U.S. exchanges. However, less than a quarter of these were able to beat the S&P 500’s 18% return (with dividends reinvested).
Below, we’ll break down three 2025 IPOs that really stood out. They attracted sign... Read the Full Story |
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Last year wasn’t kind to the health care sector. That corner of the market, which includes Big Pharma mainstays such as Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), finished dead last among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors with a meager 2.6% gain.
Ho... Read the Full Story |
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Share buybacks are one of the key ways that companies return capital to shareholders. Buybacks do this by reducing a company’s outstanding share count, allowing each remaining share to account for a larger percentage of a company’s value. All else equal, this puts upward pressure on sh... Read the Full Story |
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A new year of trading and investing is officially underway, and optimism across markets is running high. Risk appetite has returned, speculation is elevated, and retail investors are once again leaning into bold ideas for the year ahead. But unlike prior cycles, retail enthusiasm is no longer dism... Read the Full Story |
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In 2025, Wall Street analysts showered many stocks in the technology and communication sectors—the two best-performing sectors of the year—with upgrades. Tech took the top spot, with the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLK) notching a return of 24.6%, with the Communicati... Read the Full Story |
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The S&P 500 wrapped up 2025 with a total return of about 18%, the third straight year above historical norms but a lower figure than the gangbusters 25% returns of 2023 and 2024. AI euphoria is still the strongest market trend entering 2026, and the usual suspects like NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NV... Read the Full Story |
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2026 could be a breakout year for several companies that have previously spent time patiently rebuilding or preparing. Years of headwinds related to reduced demand, pandemic travel disruptions, delayed launches and other factors have threatened the companies below in their ability to maximize thei... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Comfort Systems USA, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides mechanical and electrical installation, renovation, maintenance, repair, and replacement services for the mechanical and electrical services industry in the United States. It operates through two segments, Mechanical and Electrical. The company offers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, as well as plumbing, electrical, piping and controls, off-site construction, monitoring, and fire protection. It also engages in the design, engineering, integration, installation, and start-up of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) and related systems in new buildings; and renovation, expansion, maintenance, monitoring, repair, and replacement of MEP systems in existing buildings. In addition, the company provides remote monitoring of power usage, temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow for MEP and other building systems. It serves building owners and developers, general contractors, architects, consulting engineers, and property managers in the commercial, industrial, and institutional MEP markets. Comfort Systems USA, Inc. was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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