Good MorningThe equities market came back from a losing week in good form. The major indices gained 0.50% to 1.5% with tech in the leading on rising stimulus bets. The incoming Biden administration is pushing for another round of individual checks that would be the largest payment to-date. There is still a long way for lawmakers to go but with both the House and Senate in Democratic control, some further amount of stimulus is more than likely.
The VIX Is often an indicator of future price movement and it may be giving an important signal now. The VIX is edging higher even while the S&P 500 moves higher suggesting investors fear a sell-off. In a technical sense, the chart of the VIX is very bullish which is bad for the market. The index is forming a strong level of support at the new, elevated levels with indicators that are throwing off bullish signals. In short, the VIX may indicate a market waiting for an excuse to sell.
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A glance at the S&P 500 stocks that are out of the gates fast this year reveals some unfamiliar names. Six of the top 10 are members of an energy sector that suffered a historic plunge in 2020.
While plenty of uncertainty remains around a sustainable rebound in demand, investors seem to be po... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | World markets were mostly higher Tuesday as the coming changing of the guard in the U.S. raised hopes for more support for the economy and more aggressive measures to fight the pandemic.
Benchmarks were higher in Paris, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong but slipped in Shanghai. World market... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | Shares advanced in Asia on Tuesday as the coming changing of the guard in the U.S. raised hopes for more support for the economy and more aggressive measures to fight the pandemic.
Benchmarks were higher in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong but slipped in Shanghai. World markets were subdue... Read the Full Story |
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If investors needed a reminder that the healthcare industry will always play a critical role in financial markets, 2020 provided just that. As the global pandemic derailed the world’s economy and caused the biggest health crisis of our lifetimes, these companies helped to restore confidence ... Read the Full Story |
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Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) has been a stock that investors love to hate. Even when the company was posting beat after beat in its 2020 earnings reports, the stock almost like clockwork would fall. However as Netflix gets ready to post earnings for the fourth quarter, there seems to be a change in senti... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Travelers to New Zealand from most other nations will need to show negative coronavirus test results before boarding as of next Monday.
New Zealand recently imposed the test requirement for travelers from the U.S. and Britain, and authorities said Tuesday th... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | The Chinese government says profit at state-owned companies that dominate its banking, oil and most other industries rose by as much as 25% last year as the country recovered from the coronavirus pandemic Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to do more to fight a deep pandemic-induced recession, saying the threats of a longer and even worse downturn are too great to cut back on support now.
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Markets | | | Canada Goose (NYSE:GOOS) is an interesting play on the consumer for many reasons. Not only is it a luxury apparel manufacturer but it is also a seasonal play that is coming up on a hurdle, the Q3 earnings report. Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND), a provider of plant-based meat alternatives, surged more than 18% last week, with word of a new Taco Bell menu item accounting for most of the move. After quadrupling between March and October 2020, Beyond Meat lost nearly half its value in three months.
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Cognex Corporation provides machine vision products that capture and analyze visual information to automate manufacturing and distribution tasks worldwide. Its machine vision products are used to automate the manufacturing and tracking of discrete items, including mobile phones, electric vehicle batteries, and e-commerce packages by locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring them during the manufacturing or distribution process. The company offers VisionPro software, a suite of patented vision tools for advanced programming; QuickBuild that allows customers to build vision applications with a graphical, flowchart-based programming interface; and Cognex deep learning vision software. It also provides a range of inspection tasks, including part location, identification, measurement, assembly verification, and robotic guidance; vision sensors for vision applications, such as checking the presence and size of parts; and the In-Sight product line of vision systems and sensors. In addition, the company offers DataMan, an image-based barcode readers and barcode verifiers. It sells its products to automotive, logistics, consumer electronics, medical-related, semiconductor, consumer products, food and beverage, and others, as well as through a network of distributors and integrators. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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