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If the S&P can hold above the 200 daily moving average over the coming week, then the correction will be officially over and stocks should have an open field to run back up to the previous highs (and possibly higher).
Alibaba Group reported mixed fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results, beating earnings estimates while lagging on revenues. Investors should take a close look at ETFs having the largest allocation to this Chinese e-commerce giant.
China has approved plans to build 10 new nuclear reactors for 200 billion yuan ($27.7 billion), positioning it to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest nuclear power producer by 2030, according to Nikkei Asia.
U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut to 30 percent from 145 percent, and China’s tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut to 10 percent from 125 percent.
Walmart reported better-than-expected first-quarter fiscal 2026 results. WMT shares are down 0.5%. This has put ETFs with the highest allocation to the world's largest brick-and-mortar retailer.
Momentum is a financial anomaly in which buying stocks with positive past returns and selling the negative yielding ones has delivered positive returns. In this article, we take a deeper look.
The relative economic freedom of our economy allows entrepreneurs to efficiently organize industry and innovate – despite any headwinds from bad government policy.
Current credit grades are to an extent already “priced in” to gold as valued by dollar debasement, which broadly values the yellow metal at 3887, some +21% above the present 3205 level.
YUM! Brands is one of the world’s largest fast-food companies, operating over 57,000 restaurants in 155+ countries under three globally recognized brands: Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut.
The lack of new 52 week highs is a cause for concern with the major indices approaching their all time highs. This has been a rally with very narrow leadership.
Vietnam led Southeast Asia’s auto sales growth in Q1 2025, with a 24% year-on-year surge, outpacing larger markets thanks to strong economic momentum and rising public investment.
The Canadian dollar continued its recent back-and-forth movement against the US dollar on Friday. The loonie pared away the previous day’s gains and kept the USD/CAD currency pair pinned near the 1.4000 handle.
This headline sensitive phase has been about combining macroeconomic and fundamental reading of the situation, with the China phase one deal news cementing breakout above 200-day moving average.
Uncertainty got the upper hand this week. President Trump removed one certainty from the outlook — the U.S. economy would be wrecked by his de facto embargo of China — but we now are uncertain as to how bad a 30% Chinese tariff will be.
Bitcoin had a stellar 2024, and experts had predicted that the cryptocurrency could cross $140,000 once global tensions ease. Given this, it may be ideal to invest in crypto-focused stocks. Here is a quick look at 3 such stocks to keep an eye on.
The AUD/USD currency pair cautiously traded near the 0.6400 area on Friday, ahead of the RBA's rate decision next week. US consumer sentiment weakened, while inflation expectations climbed, which only added to the market's uncertainty.
Tencent recently announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2025. Tencent’s gaming business generated revenue of CNY 59.5 billion in Q1, with international market revenue increasing by 23% year-on-year to CNY 16.6 billion.
Companies can demonstrate a shareholder-friendly nature through share repurchase programs, also commonly known as stock buybacks. Several companies recently unveiled fresh buybacks. Here is a closer look at how this may benefit investors.
Here is a short look at the 7 largest companies by market capitalization as of Saturday, May 17, 2025. Additionally, I have included the percentages of their gains on a year-to-date basis. Let's dive into the numbers.
Speculators are chasing share price movements. Investors are buying a business because they see long-term value. Meanwhile, dividend investors want to collect a solid payout that will rise for many years to come. J.M. Smucker may be one such name.
Say you see a company that’s seemingly trading at a discount, either compared with its own past valuation, its peers, or the larger market. Your next step shouldn’t be to buy; it should be to evaluate. After all, it could be a value trap.
What has Wall Street been buzzing about this week? Here is a quick look at the top 5 buy calls and the top 5 sell calls made by Wall Street's best analysts during the trading week of May 12-16, 2025.
Deere & Co. reported robust second-quarter fiscal 2025 results, beating earnings and revenue estimates. This put ETFs with the largest allocation to this farm equipment giant in focus. Here is a brief look at some such funds to consider.
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, workers at the tenth percentile of the wage distribution saw a 15.3 percent increase in their real wage from 2019 to 2024.
The markets are reaching decently overbought levels after being extremely oversold. This suggests that at least for now, the “easy money” has been made.
While manufacturing jobs have been dropping as a share of total employment since the 1970s, it was only in the decade of the 00s, when the trade deficit exploded, that we actually lost large numbers of manufacturing jobs.
If we want to experience the full upside of AI, then we also need to invest in human capital just as aggressively as we’re investing in model training.
Markets are not rational. They never were. They never will be. If you’ve walked into this essay expecting a list of hot stocks for 2025 wrapped in tidy explanations and comfortable predictions, you’ve already missed the point.
April retail sales suggests pre-emptive buying to get ahead of tariff-related price hikes faded quickly after a March spending surge. Meanwhile, subdued PPI indicates that, for now, companies are choosing to absorb higher costs in profit margins.
In this article, I use the Profits Identity Framework to derive a general estimate for the impact that Trump’s tariffs will have on aggregate after-tax corporate profits in the United States.
Today’s market feels eerily calm—indexes near highs, spreads tight, VIX subdued. But this quiet isn’t strength or momentum; it’s a mirage, not a rally.
