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The stock market finished the day mostly lower, although the S&P 500 was relatively unchanged, down just 43 bps, with most of it coming in the final minutes of the day.
Lower interest rates and aggressive monetary growth will slam the dollar. Higher rates and restrictive monetary policy will depress economic activity. Tariffs magnify labor market risks.
Nearly three years after the launch of ChatGPT, most investors view MSFT as the winner relative to GOOGL, if for no other reason than its investments in OpenAI that have given it a 49% share of the company’s future profits.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today officially kicked off the Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, announcing DOE will initially work with 11 advanced reactor projects to move their technologies towards deployment.
The lawsuit alleges Apple’s App Store rankings unfairly favour ChatGPT while deprioritising rivals like Grok, which the billionaire claims is an “unequivocal antitrust violation”.
Rocket Lab surged on its 70th launch, while Reddit soared 116% post-earnings. Traders weigh momentum, volatility, and legal risks as institutions and retail flow into these high-move names.
Biotech stocks are often driven more by perception and momentum than fundamentals. Even routine insider sales or minor analyst revisions can trigger outsized reactions.
Since 2023, inflation has gradually declined, but remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. As of July 2025, the CPI stands at 2.7%, still slightly elevated.
The latest economic data suggests the U.S. economy is decelerating. That means growth is slowing, jobs are shrinking, and households are spending less.
On 21 August, Intuit (INTU) increased its dividend by 15.38%, from $1.04 to $1.20 per share. The dividend is payable on 17 October to shareholders of record on 9 October.
While Fed news will continue to draw attention this week, the focus will also shift to a slew of inflation releases out of the U.S., Europe and Japan, while Nvidia’s earnings will be all-important after tech stocks slumped prior to Friday’s rally.
Retail sales in July rose by 4.8% YoY in Poland, rebounding from June’s weaker 2.2% figure. The June dip was a one-off weakness and most likely reflected a temporary shift in consumer spending from goods to services
The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund that tracks the performance of the healthcare sector at large is currently down some 8.0% versus its year-to-date high in the first week of March.
This weekly Extreme Positions report highlights the Most Bullish and Most Bearish Positions for the speculator category. Extreme positioning in these markets can foreshadow strong moves in the underlying market.
Amano Corporation has paid variable semi-annual dividends since July 16, 1987. The current forward-looking annual dividend of $1.22 yields 4.86% per Friday’s $25.12 share price.
Cloudflare (NET) breaking out of the wedge pattern in the early going here, but not a lot of body to the candle so far. Holding support underneath and attempting to bounce off of it.
Powell’s dovish signal sparked a broad risk-on rally as markets priced September rate cuts. Yields fell, stocks and crypto surged, with AI, semis, housing, REITs, and financials leading gains.
Gold, silver, and mining stocks rallied after Friday’s dovish Fed Jackson Hole speech, which lifted market sentiment and pushed spot gold up 0.97% and spot silver up 1.87%.
In economics and finance, time is central to our analysis. Macroeconomics has maintained a somewhat narrow conception of time since the rational expectations revolution.
Tower Semiconductor's stock surged in price last week due to a strong financial performance, bullish analyst sentiment, and exciting product innovation.
The U.S. M2 money supply rose to a record $22.02 trillion in June 2025, up from $21.94 trillion in May. Year-on-year (YoY) growth stands at 4.53%, reflecting an acceleration compared to last year’s 1.36% growth.
In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the market's reaction to Friday's rally, suggesting that while there is a pullback today, trends may still be shifting towards interest rate cuts.
The COT currency market speculator bets were overall higher this week as seven out of the eleven currency markets we cover had higher positioning while the other four markets had lower speculator contracts.
Retail investors treat pullbacks as temporary noise, and their behavior borders on mechanical. Every sell-off is seen as an opportunity, not a warning. Meanwhile, institutional managers sit it out.
This is the last trading week of August and while many traders have left their desks early before the holiday expect some volatility with news and big earnings releases having an influence.
The fact that we are giving back some of the gains suggest that we could very well be a situation where we are looking to “fade the rally” in this market again.
The best market indicator for the next several months may not be the market expectations of Fed Funds rates, but rather the market’s expectations for the housing sector.
Finance is rated as one of our top sectors for year ahead games. Foreign banks look particularly strong but US global banks also still have room to run according to our models. Valuation, however, is a concern.
U.S. futures opened flat, but the real action is in the undercurrent: Asia is set to rally in catch-up mode, feeding off Wall Street’s Friday rebound after Powell cracked the door open to rate cuts
Blow-off or not, progress toward S&P 7000 is ongoing -- so let's see if small caps extend more. Structurally dips at least for now should be within the uptrend context.
Short interest on Viking Therapeutics spikes to a five-year high above 30% while shares crater 36% as oral GLP-1 Phase 2 study fails to clear high expectations. Plus WULF, MLTX, SMR.
There is a potential upside of +6.1% (i.e., $800.85/$754.79 = 0.061) for new investors in META stock. That's not much. But there are ways to play this using options that might make sense for value investors.
