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Key Things to Know as Gold and Silver Hit New Highs
Gold and silver have led stocks by a wide margin in 2025. Here are some key trading products to know as the yellow metal crosses $4,000 for the first time and nears the end of its best year in decades.
Inflation Cools as Market Hopes for Debt Ceiling Resolution: Market Trends This Week
Downloads are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 Current range: 4050 to 4187Kicker candlestick on FridayConsecutive weekly lows around 4050 suggest higher support in placeIndex holding near top of range, above 10-day...
Attention Fed Watchers: 4 Reasons Why April’s Inflation Report Could Be Good News
Consumer prices rose 4.9 percent in April, which could be good news for investors worried about inflation and the Federal Reserve. The reading was below 5.25 percent, the top of the central bank's target range. This represents the first drop below the Fed funds rate...
Options Alert: Call Volume Grows as Salesforce.com Nears Highs
Major technology stocks like Apple and Microsoft jumped on quarterly results. Will peer Saleforce.com make a similar move? Marc Benioff's provider of cloud-based marketing software is up 49 percent this year after a sharp selloff in 2022. It has paused over the last...
Technical Analysis: Amazon.com Could Be Struggling After Uncertain Guidance
Amazon.com may be showing signs of weakness after another post-earnings drop. The first pattern on today’s chart is the rising trendline along the lows of March and April. AMZN fell to that support last week after issuing so-so guidance and has remained there since....
Stock Market Faces Big Tests After a String of Positive Earnings
Earnings season has gone better than feared, but traders face new uncertainties this week. Today and the next two sessions bring key news on the impact of bank failures, the U.S. debt ceiling and inflation. It's a big change from recent weeks, when strong quarterly...
Double Top Before the Debt Ceiling? Market Trends This Week
Downloads are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 Attention now turns to debt ceilingPotential double-top versus February highFalse breakout on weekly chart versus last weekTight range has potential for increased volatilityFewer...
Technology & Communication
Stocks Keep Running as Inflation Fades and Apple Breaks Out
Stocks are hitting new highs as inflation eases and Apple breaks out. The S&P 500 rose 1.6 percent between Friday, June 7, and Friday, June 14. It was the second consecutive positive week, and the second straight record weekly closing high. The technology-heavy...
Uber Motors Into Earnings as IPO Market Comes Back to Life
One of the biggest IPOs in recent history reports earnings tonight, with investors looking for a big turnaround. Uber Technologies (UBER) has risen about 40 percent from its November lows. The ride-sharing giant's rally accelerated in January on hopes management would...
Fintechs Like Square Seem to Be a New Hot Spot This Year
As a new year gets underway, a new group is leading the market higher: financial technology, or "Fintech," companies. Stocks like Square (SQ) and PayPal (PYPL) not only stand at the crossroads of the new digital economy. They've also outperformed the S&P 500 and...
Is Coronavirus Crisis an Opportunity for Chinese Tech Stocks?
Chinese stocks have crashed on the coronavirus outbreak. Is the crisis a potential opportunity for investors? In case you forgot, the country's technology sector rallied sharply before the disease emerged in Wuhan. There were broader reasons for the gains that may...
Netflix, P&G Teeter as Competition Grows: Earnings This Week
The last week of earnings showed increased competition hurting big companies like Netflix. The streaming-video giant added just 550,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, about 39,000 less than expected. That confirmed worries about viewers shifting to new services...