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inflation: Archive
Walmart (WMT) Shares Near All-Time High Ahead of Earnings
by Bryan Hayes
With Wall Street maintaining a bullish outlook, a positive earnings surprise could drive shares of this leading retailer higher.
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Home Depot Kicks Off Retail Earnings with Second Consecutive EPS Miss
by Bryan Hayes
A primary reason for the underperformance is the broader operating environment, which remains a difficult one for these home improvement chains.
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Target vs. Walmart: Which is the Best Retail Stock as Q2 Results Approach?
by Shaun Pruitt
Ultimately, the decision of which retail stock may be the better investment comes down to whether investors want to bet on value for the long-term or growth and defensive safety at the moment.
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Hot & Cold Data on Retail Sales, Imports/Exports, Manufacturing
by Mark Vickery
Retail Sales have cooled following hotter revisions, while Imports turned up the heat in July.
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Market Indexes Fight Back to Flat for the Day
by Mark Vickery
Markets were mostly flat for the day, aside from the small-cap Russell 2000, which gave back the majority of its +2% gains yesterday.
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Economic Data at 3-Year Highs: PPI, Jobless Claims
by Mark Vickery
PPI prints soared +90 bps month over month, sending pre-markets from flat into the red.
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Time to Buy JPMorgan & Citigroup Stock for Potential Rate Cuts
by Shaun Pruitt
With investors starting to clamor for a September rate cut, the outlook for JPMorgan and Citigroup may become even more appealing thanks to their strong capital positions.
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Rate-Cut Bonanza Keeps Markets at Record Highs
by Mark Vickery
Market participants continue to ride the narrative that interest rate cuts will be coming down.
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Pre-Markets Up on Rate-Cut Excitement
by Mark Vickery
Right now we're looking at 2-3 rate cuts for the remainder of 2025; this roughly would equate a 3.50-3.75% Fed funds rate by the end of the year.
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ADP, GDP & FOMC: Alphabet Soup of Market Data
by Mark Vickery
Both ADP jobs and Q2 GDP outperformed estimates this morning. The FOMC meeting concludes later today.
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Big Week for Jobs, Earnings and the Fed
by Mark Vickery
There's only a 2% chance the Fed has enough votes to cut to outstrip Fed Chair Powell's opinion to keep interest rates where they are.
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Markets Fight Off Powell Rumor, Close in the Green
by Mark Vickery
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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Strong Q2 Earnings, Cooling PPI Lead Pre-Markets Higher
by Mark Vickery
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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3 Medical Stocks to Watch as Q2 Earnings Approach: ABT, JNJ, NVS
by Shaun Pruitt
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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Markets Hit Record Highs, Banks Report Q2 Results: Stocks to Watch
by Bryan Hayes
Positive earnings results out of the gate bode well for the remainder of the season.
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Big Week of Inflation Data, Q2 Earnings Reports
by Mark Vickery
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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New Tariff Talk Sends Pre-Markets Off Record Highs
by Mark Vickery
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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Pre-Markets Shrug Off Trade Deadline, FOMC Minutes Out Today
by Mark Vickery
Without a major catalyst to push market indexes to new levels higher, we might expect this sideways chop to continue.
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New Tariff Threats Give Market Indexes a Haircut
by Mark Vickery
The slight trim off record highs we saw before the opening bell turned into a full haircut today.
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"Jobs Week" Continues Thursday to Close Out the Week
by Mark Vickery
Both Weekly Jobless Claims and the BLS report will hit the wires around the same time tomorrow.
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Navigating Market Risks in the Second Half of 2025: ETFs to Consider
by Yashwardhan Jain
As policy risks rise and stagflation fears grow, investors turn to defensive ETFs to weather a volatile 2025 market.
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Markets Close Rollercoaster Q2 on Top
by Mark Vickery
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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Monitoring The Cape Ratio: Are Stocks Overvalued or Will the Bull Run Continue?
by Shaun Pruitt
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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Zacks Profit Secrets: Low-Risk Strategy Produces 127% Average Return
by Bryan Hayes
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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Markets Approach New Highs on Cooling Tensions
by Mark Vickery
Tech stocks reached new record highs, and the S&P 500 is currently about -1% below all-time highs.
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