Good MorningThe equity markets started the week on uncertain footing. Most of the major indices opened with slim gains to set new all-time highs but that is the best that can be said of the session. The indices traded within very tight ranges in evidence of a market drifting higher for no apparent reason.
While S&P 500 earnings are good the outlook for earnings growth is already priced into the market. The risk now is that 2021 economic activity will only be as-expected which, in the market’s eye’s at least, will not be enough to sustain a stock market rally.
This week’s trading is going to be heavily impacted by economic data and the data is already coming in strong. The Empire State Manufacturing Index jumped to 16 from last month’s 3.5 to more than double the consensus. The gain was driven by new orders, backlogs, and rising employment.
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Markets | | | Global shares were mostly lower Wednesday as investors sold to lock in profits from the recent rally driven by hopes economies will gradually return to a pre-pandemic normal.
France's CAC 40 slipped 0.3% in early trading to 5,768.12, while Germany's DAX dipped 0.5% to 14,000.90. Brit... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | The valuations of the consumer staples group ebb and flow around industry dynamics and company-specific events. Here we highlight three food-related consumer defensive plays that are on the inexpensive side.
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If you are an investor that is intrigued with all of the different ways in which advertising and technology intersect, a company like Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) needs to be on your shopping list. Advertising channels like websites, applications, connected television, and more offer companies the perfec... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | LONDON — British regulators have approved the world’s first coronavirus human challenge trial, in which volunteers will be deliberately exposed to the virus to study how infection spreads.
The government said Wednesday that the U.K.’s clinical trials ethics regulator has approved the ... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Ford said it would make a new electric car in Europe using Volkswagen's mechanical framework for battery-powered vehicles and spend $1 billion to revamp a factory in Germany to make the zero-emission cars.
Ford of Europe President Stewart Rowley said during an online news conference ... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | As worries about vaccine delays swept across Europe, Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday they have finalized an agreement to supply the European Union with another 200 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. and German companies said in a statement that the doses come on top ... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Ford says it will spend $1 billion to modernize its Cologne, Germany, manufacturing center, converting it into a European electric vehicle factory.
The factory will build an undisclosed electric passenger vehicle in 2023, and it may build a second one in the future, the company said ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Three-wheel electric vehicle (EV) Arcimoto, Inc. (NASDAQ: FUV) was highlighted in an article “Arcimoto (NASDAQ: FUV) Stock is Worthy at These Levels” on Jan. 13, 2021. Shares have nearly doubled since then prompting the consideration to ring the register taking some or all pro... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | La-Z-Boy Falls After Mixed Q4
Shares of La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) took a hit in premarket trading following a less-than-spectacular Q4 report. It’s not that La-Z-Boy had a bad quarter, it’s that results failed to beat the consensus. There has been a high expectation for average companies to b... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Cloud data analytic solutions provider Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) stock has nearly doubled in 2021 on the heels of a solid turnaround. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital transformation. Surging social media engagements, ecommerce, work, learn and entertain-at-home trends have... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Cloudflare, Inc. operates as a cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses worldwide. The company provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and IoT devices; and website and application security products comprising web application firewall, bot management, distributed denial of service, API gateways, SSL/TLS encryption, script management, security center, and rate limiting products. It offers website and application performance solutions, including content delivery, load balancing, DNS, agro smart routing, video stream delivery, web optimization, cache reserve, cloudfare waiting room, and cloudfare data localization suite; SASE platform through cloudfare one that provides a cloud-based network-as-a-service; network services which deliver network connectivity, security, and performance, including magic WAN, magic transit, magic firewall, cloudflare network interconnect, and spectrum. In addition, the company provides zero trust services, such as cloudflare access, cloudflare gateway, remote browser isolation, cloud access security broker, cloud email security, and data loss prevention products that protects, inspects, and provides privilege rules to grant access to data and application. Further, it provides developer-based solutions consisting of cloudflare workers, R2 object storage, workers KV, durable objects, cloudfare pages, cloudfare stream, and cloudfare images; and consumer products comprising of 1.1.1.1, a DNS resolver, WARP, a virtual private network, and cloudfare registrar that secures registration and management of domain names. The company serves customers in the technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and retail, industrial, and non-profit industries, as well as government. Cloudflare, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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