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Apple’s Big Week Drove the Nasdaq to Records
Apple just had one of its best weeks ever, driving the Nasdaq to new record highs.
Automakers Begin the Year With an Explosive Rally as Ford Goes After Tesla in the EV Space
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, was an epic day for automakers as the industry begins a New Year inundated with good news. Ford Motor (F) jumped 12 to percent to close at its highest price in 20 years. General Motors (GM) and Toyota Motor (TM) leaped 7 percent to new record...
Options Alert: Bulls Target Breakout In Financials as Earnings Draw Near
Financials kick off earnings season next week, and one options trader is positioning for a breakout in the entire sector. Check out this large transaction in the SPDR Financial ETF (XLF), which holds major names like JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC):...
Amazon May Face an Uphill Struggle as 2022 Begins: Chart of the Day
Believe it or not, Amazon.com is little changed since July 2020. Now it faces an uphill struggle as a new year begins. The first pattern jumping off the chart is the downward-sloping trendline that began shortly before Thanksgiving. AMZN steadily trending lower as the...
Stocks Ended 2021 Strong as Investors Shift from Technology to Health Care and Real Estate
Stocks ended 2021 on a strong note as investors found opportunities in new sectors like health care and real estate. The S&P 500 rose 4.7 percent in December, rebounding from worries about the Federal Reserve and omicron variant of coronavirus. The index climbed...
Why Do Stocks Move? Check Out These 7 Catalysts That Drive Price Action in the Market
The stock market includes thousands of companies in scores of industries and groupings. While they may go up and down for any reason any day, there are underlying patterns behind price movement. This article reviews an earlier series on Market Insights explaining...
Tesla Is Weaving in Its Lane: Chart of the Day
Tesla has been on anything but autopilot since peaking above $1,240 in early November. The EV giant first made a lower high near $1,200, followed by a lower low under $900 yesterday. Taking a step back, the price action is starting to resemble a downward channel. This...
Technology & Communication
Chart of the Day: Will T-Mobile Follow Other Telecoms Lower?
Telecom stocks have mostly fallen in recent months. One exception has been T-Mobile US. Could it soon follow its peers lower? The first pattern on today's chart is TMUS's break below its 100-day moving average in late September. Price bounced there several times this...
Big Caps on the Move: Scanning for Breakouts in the Dow
It's pretty quiet today as stocks drift aimlessly before Labor Day. Dog days of summer? More like the sloth days ... Still, some members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are melting to new highs even as the broader market snoozes in the shade. Here's a quick tool...
Last Week Shows Records Were Made to Be Broken
As the saying goes: Records were made to be broken. Just take the market last week. The S&P 500's decade-long bull run surpassed the lifespan of its previous upward journey in the 1990s. Another record fell on Tuesday, when the Russell 2000 Index hit a new...
New Companies Back on the Rise
Back in the spring, there was a wave of bullishness in initial public offerings. After a few pullbacks, some of those companies are pushing higher again. Take a name like ZScaler (ZS), which provides cloud-computing security services. It chopped around after crushing...
Goldilocks Drives S&P 500 to New Highs
If the longest bull market in history had a patron saint, it would be Goldilocks. This Wednesday marked the 3,453rd session in the uptrend that began on March 9, 2009. That outlasted the earlier run between late 1990 and early 2000. While improving economics and...