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Plenty of Macro Policy Boulders to Hit: Global Week Ahead

This Global Week Ahead has major macro policy boulders, rising amidst the stock ticker tape stream. We view Reuters' five world market themes, reordered by importance to equity traders.

New Strong Buy Stocks for December 9th

This company that engineers, manufactures, assembles, and sells specialty and heavy-duty vehicles has witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 20.3% over the last 60 days.

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Major Indexes Set to Surpass 2013 Returns This Year: 5 Picks

Year to date, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite have rallied 20.1%, 25.5% and 30.5%, respectively. In 2013, these indexes returned a respective 26.5%, 29.6% and 38.3%.

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AWS 12/9: Merger Monday: Biotech Edition

Large-cap pharmaceutical companies are putting their assets to work in the biotech space, particularly in cancer treatment (oncology).

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PFP 12/9: Stocks Soar on Blowout Jobs Report

Friday's Employment Situation report showed a staggering 266,000 new jobs created last month. That was a huge beat.

Friday's Employment Situation report showed a staggering 266,000 new ...

Why These ETFs Under $20 Look Like Solid Picks for 2020

Let's dig into some of the ETFs that are below $20 and have AUM of over $50 million and average daily volume of at least 50,000 shares.

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Previewing Q4 Earnings Season

A big contributing factor holding growth back has been tough comparisons to the very high levels of profitability in 2018 when earnings were boosted by the tax cut legislation.

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Tax Loss Harvesting & Cap Gains: What Investors Need to Know

In this episode of ETF Spotlight, Neena Mishra speaks with Derek Horstmeyer, assistant professor at George Mason University School of Business, to talk about tax-loss harvesting.

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Top Research Reports for Apple, PepsiCo & BHP

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including AAPL, PEP and BHP.

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Bull of the Day

Guardant Health (GH)

Cancer diagnostics provider just delivered 181% revenue growth and 18,500 tests to patients and labs

Bear of the Day

Baozun (BZUN)

Among Chinese tech and consumer companies, here's the steepest plunge in EPS estimates this year

Zacks #1 Rank Top Movers for Dec 9, 2019 Zacks #1 Rank Top Movers Zacks #1 Rank Top Movers for 12/09/19

Value
Growth
Momentum
VGM
Income

Company	Symbol	Price	%Chg
Orient Over...	OROVY	29.49	+17.63%
Travis Perk...	TVPKF	16.94	+9.62%
J d Wethers...	JDWPY	95.28	+9.56%
China Autom...	CAAS	3.78	+7.39%
Tilly's, In...	TLYS	12.46	+6.77%

Company	Symbol	Price	%Chg
J d Wethers...	JDWPY	95.28	+9.56%
Communicati...	JCS	8.44	+6.97%
SMTC Corpor...	SMTX	3.59	+4.06%
Orion Energ...	OESX	3.51	+3.85%
ServiceSour...	SREV	1.66	+3.75%

Company	Symbol	Price	%Chg
Travis Perk...	TVPKF	16.94	+9.62%
China Autom...	CAAS	3.78	+7.39%
Tilly's, In...	TLYS	12.46	+6.77%
PFSweb, Inc...	PFSW	3.92	+4.53%
SMTC Corpor...	SMTX	3.59	+4.06%

Company	Symbol	Price	%Chg
Orient Over...	OROVY	29.49	+17.63%
J d Wethers...	JDWPY	95.28	+9.56%
Communicati...	JCS	8.44	+6.97%
DICK'S Spor...	DKS	47.95	+3.79%
Shoe Carniv...	SCVL	38.94	+3.48%

Zacks #1 Rank Additions

Company (Symbol)	Report
MASTERCRAFT BOAT HOL... (MCFT)	Quantitative Report
Tilly's, Inc. (TLYS)	Quantitative Report
Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS)	ANALYST REPORT
H&R Block, Inc. (HRB)	ANALYST REPORT
Cyclacel Pharmaceuti... (CYCC)	Quantitative Report

Investment Ideas

Stocks

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Computer Software Stock Outlook: Growth Prospects Bullish

by Aniruddha Ganguly

Import Tariffs Mar Solar Prospects Amid Investment Drive

by Aparajita Dutta

Gaming Industry Outlook: Macau Performance a Pressing Concern

Oil Drillers Remove Rigs From Permian Basin & Cana Woodford

U.S. Shale Producers to Gain as OPEC+ Deepens Output Cuts

5 Top Stocks to Buy on Blockbuster Jobs Data

IDC Posts Q3 Server Market Data: Dell, HPE & More in Focus

Insurance Stocks to Pick on a Resilient U.S. Jobs Report

Major Indexes Set to Surpass 2013 Returns This Year: 5 Picks

3 Income Stocks to Consider as Jobs Data Bolsters Stock Market

Buy Apple (AAPL) Stock on Analyst Optimism Heading into 2020?

ETFs

Small-Cap U.S. ETFs: Did the Year-End Rally Just Begin?

Small-Cap ETFs have picked up momentum of late. Is it a reflection of the pre-January Effect?

5 Sector ETFs to Win After Robust November Jobs Data

Best & Worst ETF Areas of Last Week

A DIET-Friendly ETF From Defiance

Mutual Funds

4 Funds to Make the Best of November's Hearty Job Additions

New positions created across major sectors call for betting on related mutual funds.

3 BlackRock Mutual Funds to Snap Up

3 Best-Performing Vanguard Mutual Funds for December

3 Franklin Templeton Mutual Funds for Splendid Returns

Options

A Different Take on a Popular Strategy

Options volumes may be a good signal, but not necessarily how you might think.

Understanding Options During a Marijuana Stocks Rally

Playing Offense when Volatilities are Low

Pay Attention to Hard to Borrow Rates, Even in Options Trades

Earnings Analysis

More Analysis

Previewing the Q4 2019 Earnings Season

Earnings Preview

by Sheraz Mian

The December-quarter reporting season will not take the spotlight till we get into the New Year and the big banks start reporting results in mid-January. But the reporting season will actually get underway this week...

Looking Ahead to the Q4 Earnings Season

Earnings Headlines

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Big Lots (BIG) Stock Surges on Narrower-Than-Expected Q3 Loss

Ferrellgas Partners' (FGP) Q1 Loss Narrows, Revenues Drop Y/Y

CrowdStrike (CRWD) Q3 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates

Methode Electronics (MEI) Q2 Earnings & Sales Miss Estimates

Reported Earnings Surprises

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Positive
Negative

Symbol	Time	Expected	Reported	%Surprise
SONG	07:27	-0.12	0.04	+133.33
THO	07:14	1.23	1.50	+21.95

EPS Positive Surprises for Dec 9, 2019

Symbol	Time	Expected	Reported	%Surprise
MMMB	07:41	0.02	0.01	-50.00

EPS Negative Surprises for Dec 9, 2019

Upcoming Earnings ESP

Symbol	ESP	Most Accurate Estimate	Consensus Estimate
LULU	1.32%	0.95	0.93
ADBE	0.12%	2.26	2.26
AZO	0.80%	13.80	13.69
THO	4.88%	1.29	1.23

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Target (TGT) and Gap (GPS): 12/6/2019 Bull & Bear

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SDC: Growth Stock Trading At Value Multiples

Smile Direct has seen an unprecedented amount of growth in the past two and a half years. The company demonstrated almost 200% year-over-year revenue growth in 2018, and expected to grow roughly 80% through 2019. Smile Direct: https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SDC?cid=CS-YOUTUBE-FT-VID Follow us on StockTwits: https://stocktwits.com/ZacksResearch Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZacksResearch Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZacksInvestmentResearch

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