Good MorningSanta Claus came to Wall Street this year, and equity markets rose on the last two trading days before the holiday. The action was light, but it lifted the S&P 500 to near its all-time high and set it up for new highs by the end of the year or early in 2025. In this scenario, the index will likely trend higher in 2025 and could reach 7,100 or higher by year's end. Drivers of this rally include economic growth, healthy labor markets, and resilient consumers with potential tailwinds from lower rates and Trump's policies appearing by year's end.
The next big hurdle for the S&P 500 is the earnings reporting season. The analysts expect earnings growth to accelerate in Q4 and next year, so guidance is crucial. The market will want a favorable outlook and will likely get one, which may accelerate the rally. The risk is that inflation, which has been accelerating, will lead the FOMC back into tightening, raising the risk of economic stalling and recession. Featured: BITCOIN (Awesomely, LLC) 
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Now that 2024 is coming to an end, it is easy for investors to sit back and look over the past 12 months and the gains they have made. However, getting too comfortable in the stock market typically leads to losing track of the game just when investors need to be the most focused. Starting 2025 on ... Read the Full Story |
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Investors have been focused on the technology sector for the better part of the past two years, with a particular interest in the new trends and themes happening in the world of artificial intelligence and developments in the next horizon of computing power. Within this trend, some popular stocks ... Read the Full Story |
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Most investors in the technology sector have been focused on the trends and developments around artificial intelligence names, particularly those in the semiconductor industry responsible for building the infrastructure necessary to allow for these models to work and grow from the data they a... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors.U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. The year featured many familiar winners, such as Big Tech, which got even bigger as their stock prices ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | A stock split has no fundamental impact on a business's health but it is a sign of business health investors should heed. Data from Bank of America shows that companies that split their stock tend to outperform the broad market and deliver leveraged returns over time.
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Stocks | | | Stocks wavered on Wall Street in afternoon trading Thursday, as gains in tech companies and retailers helped temper losses elsewhere in the market.The S&P 500 was up less than 0.1% after drifting between small gains and losses. The benchmark index is coming off a three-day winning streak. The Do... Read the Full Story |
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Stocks | | | Shares slipped in Tokyo and Shanghai on Wednesday, two of only a handful of world markets open on Christmas day. Oil prices rose. Japan's Nikkei 225 index edged 0.1% lower to 38,997.02, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.2% to 3,387.41. Thursday will bring a weekly update on U.S. unemployment... Read the Full Story |
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Shoe Carnival (NASDAQ: SCVL), Mondelez’s (NASDAQ: MDLZ), and Kroger (NYSE: KR)announced major buybacks in December that should help support their price action over time. Today's question is whether these stocks will be classified as Buys, Sells, or Holds for 2025, and the answer is Buy, if f... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | China's economy grew a bit more in 2023 than earlier thought, but the revision has not affected forecasts for “about 5%” growth in the GDP this year, the government said Thursday. The estimate for total economic activity, or GDP, in 2023 for the world's second largest economy was increased by about ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 47.5% on Thursday, carrying out its first rate cut in nearly two years as it tries to control soaring inflation.Citing slowing inflation, the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said it was reducing its one-week repo rate t... Read the Full Story |
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Thursday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Xcel Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and consumer products company in the United States. The company designs, produces, markets, wholesales, and sells branded apparel, footwear, accessories, jewelry, home goods, and other consumer products; and acquires consumer lifestyle brands, including the Isaac Mizrahi, the LOGO by Lori Goldstein, the Judith Ripka, the Halston brand, the C Wonder, the TowerHill by Christie Brinkley brand (the CB brand), and other brands, as well as manages the Longaberger brand. It licenses its brands to third parties; and designs, produces, markets, and distributes through an omni-channel retail sales strategy, which include distribution through interactive television, digital live-stream shopping, brick-and-mortar retail, and e-commerce channels. The company also offers live streaming, social media and other marketing, and public relations support for its brands. In addition, it markets its brands through www.isaacmizrahi.com; www.halston.com; www.judithripka.com; www.cwonder.com; www.lorigoldstein.com; and www.longaberger.com. Xcel Brands, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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