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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Off Powell Rumor, Close in the Green

A report that President Trump intended on firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell sent all major indexes into the loss column temporarily.

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Mark Vickery

Strong Q2 Earnings, Cooling PPI Lead Pre-Markets Higher

Headline PPI for June, month over month, reached 0.0% -- lower than the +0.2% expected and 30 bps below May.

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Shaun Pruitt

3 Medical Stocks to Watch as Q2 Earnings Approach: ABT, JNJ, NVS

The broader market's historic rebound may make it necessary to consider some defensive positions in the portfolio, and these medical stocks fit the bill ahead of their Q2 reports.

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Bryan Hayes

Markets Hit Record Highs, Banks Report Q2 Results: Stocks to Watch

Positive earnings results out of the gate bode well for the remainder of the season.

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Mark Vickery

Big Week of Inflation Data, Q2 Earnings Reports

Not only do we look forward to the biggest of the Wall Street banks reporting Q2 earnings, but a whole host of economic prints, including a fresh Inflation Rate for the month of June, are expected.

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Mark Vickery

New Tariff Talk Sends Pre-Markets Off Record Highs

President Trump announced a new +35% tariff on all Canadian goods imported to the U.S. this morning. Pre-markets are now in the red.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Shrug Off Trade Deadline, FOMC Minutes Out Today

Without a major catalyst to push market indexes to new levels higher, we might expect this sideways chop to continue.

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Mark Vickery

New Tariff Threats Give Market Indexes a Haircut

The slight trim off record highs we saw before the opening bell turned into a full haircut today.

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Mark Vickery

"Jobs Week" Continues Thursday to Close Out the Week

Both Weekly Jobless Claims and the BLS report will hit the wires around the same time tomorrow.

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Yashwardhan Jain

Navigating Market Risks in the Second Half of 2025: ETFs to Consider

As policy risks rise and stagflation fears grow, investors turn to defensive ETFs to weather a volatile 2025 market.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close Rollercoaster Q2 on Top

After starting calendar Q2 with a huge "Liberation Day" dip, the Nasdaq and S&P 500 once again close at new all-time highs.

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Shaun Pruitt

Monitoring The Cape Ratio: Are Stocks Overvalued or Will the Bull Run Continue?

Amid a historic rebound, the S&P 500 has hit another all-time high after flirting with correction territory just three months ago in March.

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Bryan Hayes

Zacks Profit Secrets: Low-Risk Strategy Produces 127% Average Return

In this video, I peel back the curtain and dive into some of the methods that enabled our subscribers to achieve a 127% average return with 100% open-trade winners.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Approach New Highs on Cooling Tensions

Tech stocks reached new record highs, and the S&P 500 is currently about -1% below all-time highs.

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Bryan Hayes

The Market's Latest Scare Tactic: Trade the Reaction, Not the Headlines

Today, the market's best tactic is to scare us from the coming rebound. Investors nearly always doubt new bull markets, often for years after they begin.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Look Toward Sunny Climes

Pre-market futures are mostly flat to start a new trading week, already off early morning lows.

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Bryan Hayes

Is Commercial Metals (CMC) A 'Buy' Ahead of Fiscal Q3 Earnings Announcement?

The steel recycler has seen its quarterly EPS estimate increase 3.9% ahead of Monday's release.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Climb on Rate Cut Visibility

Only the small-cap Russell is up over the past five trading days, but the other indexes are approaching.

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Mark Vickery

Israel Attacks on Iran Send Markets into the Red

This unprecedented event has immediately sent up oil and gold prices on the global market.

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Sanghamitra Saha

Sector ETFs Likely to Gain on May Inflation Data

Muted inflation in May keeps rate cuts on hold, spotlighting sector ETFs like XLK, IHI, EATZ, and XLRE for potential gains.

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Shaun Pruitt

Top Stocks to Watch After May's Optimistic CPI Data

Optimistically, May's much-anticipated inflation data came in better than expected amid ongoing concerns that President Trump's tariffs could cause a cost surge.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Keep Nudging Higher Ahead of Trade Deals, CPI

The S&P 500 is now at its highest level since February 20th.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Flat Ahead of CPI, PPI & Possible Trade Deals

Overall, indexes are roughly flat year over year, although the S&P 500 grew above 6K for the first time since late February.

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Shaun Pruitt

Stocks to Watch as May's Jobs Report Beats Economists' Expectations: PCTY, MMS

Driving the stock market's uptick on Friday, U.S. employers added 139,000 jobs, which came in above most economists' expectations of 125,000-130,000.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Slide to Flat on Jobs, Trade, Beige Book, Earnings

ADP payrolls and the Beige Book slipped today, ahead of earnings results from Five Below.

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