Good MorningWednesday's optimism over an end to the Iran conflict evaporated after President Trump's primetime address promised weeks of continued escalation. The session opened sharply lower as crude surged near $112 per barrel, but equities clawed back most of the deficit after reports that Iran and Oman are drafting a protocol to monitor Strait of Hormuz traffic. The recovery was defensive in character: energy, utilities, and real estate led, while consumer discretionary lagged, positioning that reflects higher-for-longer oil rather than a quick resolution.
The crude spike reintroduced an inflation problem the Fed cannot solve with monetary tools. With energy costs feeding into input prices and consumer spending, rate relief remains off the table until the geopolitical picture clarifies, leaving markets trapped between war premium and recession risk.
Tesla slid after Q1 deliveries missed expectations, with a 50,000-unit inventory build raising demand questions. SpaceX's confidential IPO filing injected fresh energy into the space sector, while Amazon's reported $9 billion pursuit of Globalstar escalated the satellite broadband race.
Markets are closed today for Good Friday, but March nonfarm payrolls drop at 8:30 a.m. into that silence. Traders are watching whether the number confirms labor market deterioration or offers a reprieve, with no ability to react until Monday's open. Featured: The case for trading fewer setups, not more (Ad) 
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All eyes are on the initial public offering (IPO) calendar as one of 2026’s most highly anticipated debuts prepares for its launch.
On April 1, CNBC reported that Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Neuralink CEO Elon Musk confidentially filed an IPO for SpaceX with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Co... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Oracle runs 15,000 stocks through the same filter every single day, scanning for precise setups before the opening bell - no emotion, no guesswork.
Tim Bohen, Lead Trainer at StocksToTrade, is walking through this week's flagged setups and showing exactly how the scanner works in a live training right now. | | Watch the scanner in action and join the live training now |
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With the AI landscape constantly shifting, investors may not feel confident selecting individual companies in the space to target. Fortunately, a selective investment in a handful of AI-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can offer broad exposure to this fast-growing space, including everything f... Read the Full Story |
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CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) has heard the words Anthropic or Claude Code more than it would like. CRWD stock is down about 16% in 2026. Most of that drop had to do with the general malaise with frothy technology stocks.
Just as CRWD stock was beginning to hit its stride, it got der... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Every morning before the market opens, a scanner called Oracle runs through 15,000 stocks and scores the setups — so there's already a plan in place by 6:15 a.m.
Lead Trainer Tim Bohen of StocksToTrade is walking through exactly how Oracle works and how regular traders are using it in a training running right now. | | Watch the Oracle training now and see how the scanner works |
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Down more than 60% from its highs, Conagra (NYSE: CAG) stock certainly presents risks. The forces that undercut market sentiment may persist, and stock prices may continue their decline. However, signals such as stabilizing business, cash flow, and the wicked-hot value suggest now is a good time t... Read the Full Story |
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Nike (NYSE: NKE) stumbled and fell, but now it is amid a turnaround that is gaining traction. However, the headwinds are fierce, and the turnaround is taking longer than expected, leaving the market vulnerable to a deeper decline.
The primary takeaway from the fiscal Q3 2026 report is that weak... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The U.S. government has taken roughly a 10% stake in Intel, negotiated a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China, and reportedly received a 5% ownership offer - worth around $40 billion - from the most valuable AI company on earth.
Porter Stansberry calls it the New U.S.A.I. - a state-backed arrangement where Washington and a handful of tech giants are fused at the balance sheet. A small number of companies get pulled inside. Everyone else gets frozen out, including names sitting in your index fund right now. | | Watch the documentary to see which companies are on the right side |
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Lamb Weston (NYSE: LW), the king of frozen potatoes for both residential and commercial markets, scored a double beat in its Q3 FY2026 earnings report on April 1.
But investors continue to freeze out LW stock, which is down over 8% in 2026 so far. The chart, however, shows that much of the bad ... Read the Full Story |
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In a powerful demonstration of financial strength and strategic foresight, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) recently committed over $10 billion to two major initiatives in just a matter of days. While many market participants remain focused on Eli Lilly’s current dominance in the diabetes a... Read the Full Story |
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PVH Corp.'s (NYSE: PVH) stock price has struggled for years, but the bottom is in, and the potential for recovery grows. The fiscal Q4 2026 earnings report reflects the enduring power and quality of its brands, Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, as its return to growth was sustained and accelerated.
Hi... Read the Full Story |
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Industrials | | A geopolitical shockwave has rippled from the Middle East to the global commodities market, sending aluminum prices to levels not seen in years. Recent drone strikes on critical aluminum smelting facilities have abruptly choked off a significant source of global supply, creating an immediate and pow... Read the Full Story |
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Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO) has established itself as a market leader in the energy sector, delivering impressive performance for investors. Valero Energy’s stock price has risen approximately 45% year to date, trading near its 52-week high of $258.43. This consistent upward momentum is rooted... Read the Full Story |
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Friday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Ondas Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides private wireless, drone, and automated data solutions. It operates in two segments, Ondas Networks and Ondas Autonomous Systems. The company designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports FullMAX, a software defined radio (SDR) platform for wide-area broadband networks. Its FullMAX SDR platform enables secure and reliable industrial-grade connectivity for truly mission-critical applications. The company also offers Optimus, an AI-powered drone with imaging payloads; the Airbase, a ruggedized weatherproof base station for housing, data processing, and cloud transfer; Insightful, a secure web portal and API, which enables remote interaction with the system, data, and resulting analytics anywhere in the world; and the Raider, a counter-drone system for security and the protection of critical infrastructure, assets, and people from the threat of hostile drones. It serves users in rail, energy, mining, agriculture, public safety, critical infrastructure, and government markets in the United States and internationally. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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