Good MorningThe market appears to be shrugging off all other worries in favor of the earnings outlook. Monday's market pushed the S&P 500 up another 0.35% to set another new all-time high and it looks like it will continue to go higher. The only obstacles now are the results of the second-quarter earnings season and those results started rolling in today. Reports from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, and ConAgra brands should paint a fairly detailed picture of the broad US economy.
The risk for the market is the high expectation for results. If the average S&P 500 company fails to beat the consensus target by a wide enough margin the entire market could be in for a correction. Trading at nearly 22 times its forward earnings estimate, the S&P 500 is highly valued and ripe for a sell-off. Featured: Get Your Free Credit Snapshot! (Progrexion) 
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Markets | | | Apollo Medical Holdings (NASDAQ: AMEH), Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT) and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE: NSA) are all growing in institutional sponsorship, and all have shown accelerating revenue or earnings growth in recent quarters. Read the Full Story |
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The Bar Has Been Lowered For These Strong Companies
In our never-ending quest to root out the most interesting, and the most lucrative, investment stories on the market we've run across three downgrades we think you might want to buy. These downgrades aren't typically the kind of thing we want to... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | If the software industry was thriving before the pandemic, the accelerating digital transformation of the business world that has occurred over the last year was the tipping point that sent software companies to entirely new levels of success. There were plenty of software stock winners in 2020 that... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Global stock markets rose Tuesday as investors looked ahead to U.S. earnings reports that are expected to show strong profits for banks.
London opened higher and Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong advanced. Frankfurt declined.
Wall Street futures were lower after the benchma... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Tuesday after Chinese exports rose by double digits. Investors were looking ahead to U.S. earnings reports that are expected to show strong profits for major banks.
Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced.
Overnight, Wa... Read the Full Story |
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From Our PartnersJust when many investors all but ruled out tech stocks, they coming storming back. The choppy tech market has created buying opportunities for patient investors. So, it stands to reason investors could ideally be able to generate above-market returns with below-market risk. We put together a report with five of the top tech stocks that we believe have the potential to add significant returns to portfolios. | | Click here to download the FREE report |
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Markets | | | China’s exports surged in June while import growth slowed to a still-robust level as its economic rebound from the coronavirus leveled off.
Exports rose 32.2% from a year earlier to $281.4 billion, accelerating from May’s 28% growth, customs data showed Tuesday. Imports grew 36.7% to ... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | With Virgin Galactic making its highest profile test flight to date with boss Richard Branson aboard, it’s only a matter of time before paying customers get their chance and New Mexico realizes a dream that has been decades in the making.
Former Gov. Bill Richardson is among those wh... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | Scores of Japanese manufacturers less well known than Toyota and Sony are linchpins in world supply chains and innovation.
One such company is Fujifilm. It outlived the decline of traditional photography and has logged record profits after diversifying into a wide range of businesses... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Social media business review platform Yelp (NASDAQ: YELP) stock has been in a consolidation for months showing signs of an impending breakout. The popular social media platform for dining and business services reviews has been dormant for months while other social media stocks have flourished. While... Read the Full Story |
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GenXers, did you know that experts say you need to have saved a whopping six times your income for retirement by the time you're 50? If you were born between 1965-1980 (41-56 years old), you're at that age or close to it.
In other words, if you make $50,000 per year, you need to have at least $30... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Alliant Energy Corporation operates as a utility holding company that provides regulated electricity and natural gas services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Utility Electric Operations, Utility Gas Operations, and Utility Other. The company, through its subsidiary, Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), primarily generates and distributes electricity, and distributes and transports natural gas to retail customers in Iowa; sells electricity to wholesale customers in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa; and generates and distributes steam in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Alliant Energy Corporation, through its other subsidiary, Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), generates and distributes electricity, and distributes and transports natural gas to retail customers in Wisconsin; and sells electricity to wholesale customers in Wisconsin. It serves retail customers in the farming, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, chemical, packaging, and food industries, as well as wholesale customers comprising municipalities and rural electric cooperatives. In addition, the company owns and operates a short-line rail freight service in Iowa; a Mississippi River barge, rail, and truck freight terminal in Illinois; freight brokerage services; wind turbine blade recycling services; and a rail-served warehouse in Iowa. Further, it holds interests in a natural gas-fired electric generating unit near Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin; and a wind farm located in Oklahoma. The company was formerly known as Interstate Energy Corp. and changed its name to Alliant Energy Corporation in May 1999. Alliant Energy Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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