Good MorningWednesday's session was risk-on but narrow, as AI enthusiasm and earnings optimism carried the S&P 500 to a new record close above 7,000 while the Dow slipped and fewer than half the index advanced. The tension between AI-fueled leadership and thin breadth defined the day, with mega-cap tech and financials doing the heavy lifting amid a still-fragile geopolitical backdrop.
Easing Middle East rhetoric gave positioning a boost. Reports that the U.S. and Iran are nearing a renewed round of peace talks pulled crude oil lower and took some pressure off inflation expectations, reinforcing a soft-landing narrative already supported by last week's tame PPI print. With the 10-year yield holding near 4.27% and the Fed expected to stay on hold at its April 29 meeting, the macro picture favored growth over defensives.
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley both topped estimates on earnings, with investment banking and trading revenues surging as capital markets activity accelerated. ASML beat on revenue and raised its full-year sales guidance on sustained AI chip demand, though cautious second-quarter commentary sent shares lower. Tesla jumped after Elon Musk highlighted its AI5 chip milestone, and NVIDIA's release of open-source quantum AI models ignited a double-digit rally across quantum computing names. Traders are watching Thursday's Taiwan Semiconductor and Netflix earnings for the next read on AI spending durability and consumer demand. Featured: New Buy Alert From the “Billionaire Whisperer” (Ad) 
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Consumer Discretionary | |
Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) were firmly in a downtrend to begin April, down significantly from their December all-time high. While the stock hasn’t set a fresh low in nearly a week, the broader picture remains one of weakening momentum and fading confidence.
That is what makes investor Cathi... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | A former manager of a firm that traded $200 billion per day says traders can target payouts on weekends without owning a single share of AAPL, TSLA, META and more.
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A single, massive deal redrew the landscape for satellite communications: Amazon’s $11.6 billion acquisition of Globalstar. This move did more than consolidate the market; it sent a shockwave through the consumer electronics industry. For investors, the immediate focus is on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), w... Read the Full Story |
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Despite the financials sector's struggles this year, investment banking giant Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has been a very strong performer over the past year. Shares of GS have provided a total return exceeding 80% during the past 52 weeks as the company’s advisory and equity trading businesses boom.
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From Our Partners | | China has slashed its U.S. Treasury holdings by more than 45% from their peak, while building gold vaults and payment networks that bypass the dollar entirely.
Since the Federal Reserve opened in 1913, the dollar has lost most of its purchasing power. Porter Stansberry argues a new monetary order is forming around AI infrastructure, chips and energy, pointing to stocks like Vertiv, GE Vernova and Arista Networks that have surged hundreds of percent in recent years. | | Watch Porter Stansberry's full interview and see his top pick now |
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On April 14, 2026, what might have seemed like a niche software update from NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) created a tidal wave in the quantum computing sector. While the semiconductor sector titan’s stock price rose 3.73% to close at $196.38, the impact on pure-play quantum companies was far more profound.... Read the Full Story |
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Energy | |
Consumers can easily relate to the impact of crude oil prices, which topped $100 on April 13 but have since fallen back. It means higher prices for gasoline and diesel.
However, the number investors should focus on is $54. That’s the approximate crack spread per barrel. In simple terms, the crack... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Chris Pulver has used one daily trading setup more than 600 times over the past two years.
The pattern works whether the market is trending higher, lower, or sideways, and can be started with as little as $1,000, just five minutes after the opening bell.
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit it out of the park with its iPhone 17 lineup. The new family of its flagship devices led the firm not only to post its highest iPhone sales ever in Q4 2025, but also to record its highest total revenue. Despite headwinds from the market believing that Apple lacks a clear ar... Read the Full Story |
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Industrials | |
Chief executives at major legacy airlines are actively pursuing unprecedented consolidation strategies to address global supply chain disruptions and energy sector instability. Investors looking for the cause behind the recent surge in aviation stocks will find it in the latest rumored developments... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Shares of tech giant Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) are currently trading just above $160, having bounced hard in the past couple of sessions. After announcing massive layoffs at the end of March, the stock initially moved higher before being dragged lower amid the broader equity selloff tied to escalati... Read the Full Story |
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Technology | |
Are you looking for a top-rated contrarian artificial intelligence (AI) stock play? The broader technology sector continues to experience a massive boom in infrastructure spending, but Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) has endured a painful, extended correction.
Retail sentiment often turns inc... Read the Full Story |
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Shares of athleisure giant Lululemon Athletica Inc (NASDAQ: LULU) are currently trading just above $160, up over 10% from the multi-year lows they set in the last week of March. While that bounce is encouraging, it’s done little to change the bigger picture. The stock remains down around 28% from i... Read the Full Story |
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Thursday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day AAON, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and selling air conditioning and heating equipment in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: AAON Oklahoma, AAON Coil Products, and BASX. It offers rooftop units, data center cooling solutions, cleanroom systems, chillers, packaged outdoor mechanical rooms, air handling units, makeup air units, energy recovery units, condensing units, geothermal/water-source heat pumps, coils, and controls. The company markets and sells its products to retail, manufacturing, educational, lodging, supermarket, data centers, medical and pharmaceutical, and other commercial industries. It sells its products through a network of independent manufacturer representative organizations and internal sales force, as well as online. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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