Good MorningEquity markets stumbled on Wednesday morning following a mixed PPI report. The Producer Price Index came in hotter than expected at the headline level, showing another acceleration. The monthly gain led to a 2.2% increase compared to last year, the hottest read in months. The core readings were cooler than expected but will likely rise soon. However, the risk for the market comes today with the release of the CPI. Hot CPI data should reinforce the idea that the FOMC will hike rates again this year, but the impact on markets is uncertain.
The S&P 500 continues to defy all logic and closed Wednesday's session with a gain. The combination of hot PPI and Fed minutes did little to stymy bulls, who sent the index up another 0.4% at the end of the session. The move extends the rebound to a 6th day, and a retest of recent highs looks likely. With the earnings season slated to begin on Friday, it is possible the S&P 500 could move up to retest the 2023 highs and possibly set a new high. Featured: Elon Did It Again: This Could be Bigger than Tesla (Legacy Research) 
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Once again, a brief look at the MarketBeat list of Most Downgraded Stocks proves that opportunity is where you find it. While solar stocks have seen their share prices plummet over the past few quarters, driven by analysts' revisions and short selling, the markets appear to be overextending and ov... Read the Full Story |
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Despite having plunged more than 10% through September and into October, the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (BATS: ITA) has been bouncing back hard this week.
It was a fall that forced the stock's RSI to hit the low 20s, indicating highly oversold conditions, so a snapback i... Read the Full Story |
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AI is hot, and AI means robots, robotics, and automation, among other avenues of advancement. The takeaway from this article is that insiders are buying robot stocks, and there are two of particular interest. On the one hand, we have beaten up Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a maker of IoT-conn... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | For the first time in a year, the big companies in the S&P 500 may be seeing their profits grow again.The latest earnings reporting season is getting underway, and the broad expectation is for companies in the S&P 500 to say their earnings per share slipped 0.3% during the summer from a year... Read the Full Story |
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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is reportedly eyeing a Friday the 13th close for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI).
The companies announced the acquisition way back in January 2022, and Microsoft has run a gauntlet of regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and the U.K.
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Markets | | Britain’s financial regulator has fined the American former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, 1.8 million pounds — about $2.2 million — and banned him from holding senior financial roles for misleading it over the nature of his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | The Malaysian government questioned Thursday a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with the multibillion-dollar looting of a sovereign wealth fund. Johari Abdul Ghani heads a task force to recover assets lost from fund known as 1MDB. He said it’s too early for arbitr... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | New York officials launched legal recreational marijuana sales by promising many of the first retail licenses to people with past drug convictions, hoping to give people harmed by the war on drugs a chance to succeed before competitors crowded in.But more than nine months after sales started, only a... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using financial statements that a court has since deemed fraudulent, a retired bank official testified Wednesday at the former president’s New York civil fraud trial.Trump’s “statements of financial condition” were key to his approval fo... Read the Full Story |
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