Good MorningEquity markets hovered at record highs on Monday as investors waited for the next round of market-moving information. That will come this week in the form of earnings reports and economic data. On the earnings front, reports from Home Depot and Williams-Sonoma will give insight into the retail economy. At the same time, on the economic side, a reading of the CPI will get everyone's attention. The CPI is expected to hold steady compared to last month, with monthly gains running at 0.2% and the headline YoY figure advancing by a tenth. Core inflation is expected to be flat at 2.5%, the same as the previous month.
The S&P 500 is at the next critical juncture. The question is whether the index will move above 6,100 and continue higher or if a top has been reached. Because the outlook is for earnings growth and capital returns, the index will likely continue higher. In that scenario, tailwinds will develop in 2025 and carry the index up to 7,400 or higher, a 20% upside from Monday's closing price. Featured: The Real Reason Behind Tesla's Insane Profitability... (i2i Marketing Group, LLC) 
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The return of the Trump administration to the White House in 2025 has caused many U.S. stocks to surge pre-emptively on positive sentiment, while Chinese stocks collapsed on fears of more trade tensions and tariffs to come. During his reelection campaign, Trump suggested imposing a 60% tariff on g... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | U.S. stocks drifted lower Tuesday as momentum cooled for the torrid “Trump trade” that swept Wall Street following Donald Trump’s presidential victory. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% a day after setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 382 points, or 0.9%, and the Nas... Read the Full Story |
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The S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) is in a strong uptrend that is gaining momentum following the 2024 election results. The robust technical outlook suggests that the market can increase by another 20% to reach 7,400. As wild as it sounds, the target is derived from not one but numerous projections t... Read the Full Story |
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Monday.com’s (NASDAQ: MNDY) guidance is tepid relative to the consensus outlook, but no reason to sell the stock and certainly no reason for the market to drop 10%. As tepid as the guidance may be, it is still a strong guide for the business, and it is likely to be cautious, given the tren... Read the Full Story |
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI had initially planned on building a global network of foundries to produce AI chips but has instead opted to work with several companies in the computer and technology sector. Like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, OpenAI also aspires... Read the Full Story |
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The name DuPont is often associated with specialty chemical and materials products. DuPont pioneered the creation of cellophane in the 1920s and Teflon, Neoprene and nylon in the 1930s. Through the years, the company continued to develop and evolve many familiar chemicals, including freon, polyeth... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Businesses and consumers in China found the annual Singles' Day shopping festival less attractive this year amid a sluggish economy, forcing e-commerce firms to look abroad for growth.Online service provider and e-commerce platform Alibaba started the now-famous event on Nov. 11, 2009, offering attr... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Home Depot continued to deal with a pullback in spending from customers in its fiscal third quarter, but it was less severe than in the past, and its performance beat Wall Street's expectations. The home improvement retailer also boosted its full-year revenue outlook.Revenue for the Atlanta-based co... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | All that's left is for President-elect Donald Trump to put his name on it — if he wants.Trump won the White House in large part because of voters' frustration with high prices and a sense that the United States needs major changes. But when he enters office in January, Trump will inherit an economy ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Love them or hate them, it’s hard to see health savings accounts losing traction any time soon. Used in conjunction with high-deductible healthcare plans, the accounts have been touted as a way to put downward pressure on healthcare costs. Even though HSAs are the only triple tax-advantaged vehicle ... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands. Its other brands include KAYAK, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable, Inc. (OpenTable). As of December 31, 2016, Booking.com offered accommodation reservation services for over 1,115,000 properties in over 220 countries and territories on its various Websites and in over 40 languages, which included over 568,000 vacation rental properties (updated property counts were available on the Booking.com Website). | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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