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John Blank

Entering Q3 Earnings Season: Global Week Ahead

Third-quarter U.S. earnings season heats up as companies report results in the throes of a difficult operating environment given a strengthening dollar and surging inflation.

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Bryan Hayes

Emerging Market Energy Company Flashes Strong Buy Signal

Many emerging markets have finally started to display relative strength versus U.S. equities.

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John Blank

Is It All Priced In? Global Week Ahead

The bears in the market have clearly been trading on some key earnings negatives. But are these EPS negatives all priced in?

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Bryan Hayes

This Highly Ranked Chinese Stock is Outpacing the Market

At a time when many companies are seeing earnings estimates fall, this company is standing out above the rest.

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John Blank

Tricky Markets in September? Global Week Ahead

The U.S. stock market's rebound has lost some steam, just as it is entering what has been on average its most treacherous month.

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John Blank

Jackson Hole: Global Week Ahead

How big will future rate hikes be? How strong is the economy? What about quantitative tightening? Investors hope the Federal Reserve may shed light on those questions when central banking heavyweights meet on Aug. 25-27 for their annual symposium.

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John Blank

Big Box U.S. Retail Reports: Global Week Ahead

Investors will be looking out for what the biggest U.S. retailers have to say on rising prices, after a rare bit of good news on inflation in the past week.

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John Blank

The Latest on the Wealth of Nations

In a recent Development Economics article, we see some surprising data on growth pockets around the globe.

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John Blank

The CPI in Focus: Global Week Ahead

Wednesday's July U.S. inflation print is shaping up as a key test for a summer rally in U.S. stocks that has lifted the S&P 500 to multi-week highs.

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Zacks Equity Research

Avnet (AVT) to Report Q4 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

Avnet's (AVT) fourth-quarter top-line likely to witness growing demand for its electronic components. Meanwhile, geopolitical and supply-chain constraints might have hurt sales and earnings growth.

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John Blank

The CPI in Focus: Global Week Ahead

Wednesday's July U.S. inflation print is shaping up as a key test for a summer rally in U.S. stocks that has lifted the S&P 500 to multi-week highs.

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John Blank

The FOMC Matters Most: Global Week Ahead

That stiff Fed policy rate hike arrives just as traders and investors digest a wave of Q2-22 earnings from S&P 500 companies and major firms listed in Europe.

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John Blank

The First Earnings Reports: Global Week Ahead

Overall, Q2 results should shed light on the outlook for profit margins, input costs and hiring. And listen out for what company bosses say about a potential recession.

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John Blank

Reflections from Sintra Portugal: Global Week Ahead

The Fed has Jackson Hole, but the ECB has Sintra, its very own central bank forum in the foothills of Portugal's Sintra Mountains.

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Vasundhara Sawalka

Jump on the Metaverse Bandwagon With These 4 Tech Stocks

Here we present four tech stocks in the Metaverse Standards Forum - META, NVDA, QCOM and MSFT, which are poised to benefit from the metaverse boom.

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John Blank

Central Banks Will Still Drive Stocks: Global Week Ahead

Forget S&P 500 earnings estimates for the time being. Financial market trading has been fully tied to fresh key macro data and macro-driven policy events these days.

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John Blank

The Only Investment Indicator You Need

You must learn to pass judgment on the U.S. economy yourself. Gladly there is a simple system Zacks Chief Strategist John Blank uses that does very well in this regard.

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John Blank

A Big Central Bank Week: Global Week Ahead

On Wednesday, the U.S. Fed certainly delivers its 2nd straight 50-basis-point (bps) rate hike, in order to bring broad U.S. consumer inflation under control. A day later, and then Friday, Britain and Sweden will also likely lift interest rates again.

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John Blank

Time to Buy in June? Global Week Ahead

The sell-in-May-and-go-away adage applies to equities and yes, investors dumped stocks, especially those listed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

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Kevin Cook

Bear of the Day: Align Technology (ALGN)

Global growth slowdown has slashed EPS another 19% this year, but keep this dental innovator on your radar

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John Blank

Watch the CPI Data: Global Week Ahead

The policy-tightening rush is adding to the storm clouds gathering over the world economy, hit by soaring food and energy prices, war in Ukraine and China's COVID curbs.

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John Blank

Lots to Focus On: Global Week Ahead

Earnings growth for the quarter drops to +0.5% on an ex-Energy basis, but improves to +13.3% on an ex-Finance basis. But that is not the only stock market matter to care about.

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John Blank

Does May 9 Matter? Global Week Ahead

The May 9th date is attracting attention in global headlines: it's Victory Day, marking the Russian defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 at the end of World War II.

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John Blank

Russia the Biggest Influence on Global Markets: Zacks APRIL 2022 Market Strategy

Yes, the massive and comprehensive sanctions on Russian oil and gas exports remain a major disruptive force. Yet there will be other major global oil and gas sources to tap.

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Bryan Hayes

Is It Time to Give Chinese Stocks the Green Light?

The notion of China weighing down emerging markets is far from a new reality.

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