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Retail Investing Peaks In 2023: How Small-Time Trading Matured From Meme Stock Frenzy

Friday's Market Minute: Fed's Projections on Rates & Inflation are Disconnected

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No Relief: Early Rally Seen Unconvincing as Stocks on Pace for Worst Week Since March, D.C. Shutdown Fears Grow

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Friday's Market Minute: Fed's Projections on Rates & Inflation are Disconnected

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No Relief: Early Rally Seen Unconvincing as Stocks on Pace for Worst Week Since March, D.C. Shutdown Fears Grow

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Stocks on Pace to Retest Summer's Lows as Investors Digest Fed's "Higher for Longer" Message

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Thursday's Market Minute: S&P Futures: An Uptrend in Peril?

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Stocks on Pace to Retest Summer's Lows as Investors Digest Fed's "Higher for Longer" Message

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Thursday's Market Minute: S&P Futures: An Uptrend in Peril?

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Suspense Builds: Fed Expected to Keep Rates on Pause, but Economic and Rate Projections Seen Key

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Retailers Posted Mixed Results As Investors Await Chipmaker Nvidia Earnings, Powell Speech

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Friday's Market Minute: Long-Term Rates Pressuring Stocks And Bonds

We’re excited to announce Market Minute will have a new look on Monday as part of our rebranding to the Schwab Network. You’ll still enjoy the same market commentary and insight, so stay tuned!

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Thursday's Market Minute: Faltering Nasdaq Breaching Potential Support

We’re excited to announce Market Minute will have a new look on Monday as part of our rebranding to the Schwab Network. You’ll still enjoy the same market commentary and insight, so stay tuned!

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Thursday's Market Minute: Geopolitical Escalations: A Greater Risk Than Inflation

Inflation data will capture the attention of traders as commodity price advances concern the market. The market hopes shelter costs will begin to crack to offset such concerns. But the real threat to the marketplace is one of the hardest things to price: geopolitical tensions.

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Wednesday's Market Minute: Goldilocks Is Looking Like A Fairy Tale

For investors, the most important thing about 2023 has been how different it is from 2022. That is, until two weeks ago.

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Moody's Downgrades Hits Banks, But Health Care Glows As Lilly, Novo Nordisk Boosted By Earnings, Data

(Tuesday market open) Several months after the opening salvo, regional banks came back into focus Tuesday morning after Moody’s cut ratings on several of them and warned that more downgrades might be on the way—even for big banks.

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Tuesday's Market Minute: Global EV Players Stalling After Quarterly Earnings

Softness in some of the major global EVs is persisting amid earnings that aren’t able to match the sky-high bar. But the numbers have been relatively solid.

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Backloaded: Weekly Calendar Awards Those Who Wait As Disney, CPI, PPI Due Wednesday-Friday

(Monday market open) After U.S. stocks suffered their worst week since March, investors trudge back Monday to a market that’s limping technically and appears to lack clear catalysts to reignite bullish sparks. Major indexes come into the week on a four-session losing streak but rebounded slightly in premarket trading.

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Monday's Market Minute: A Busy Week Ahead On Wall Street

Looks like another week with the focus primarily on earnings and economic data. This week we have roughly three dozen S&P 500 companies reporting, so let’s begin there.

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Friday's Market Minute: S&P Futures Flash Potential Trend Change Warnings

S&P 500 futures have seen three straight days of losses after topping out at 4,617.25 in terms of closing prices, and had fallen about -2% from that point as of yesterday’s close.

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Amazon And Apple Awaited: Risk-Off Trading Continues Ahead Of Earnings, Friday Jobs Data

(Thursday market open) After an interruption due to Fitch Ratings’ surprise downgrade of U.S.

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Thursday's Market Minute: Pre-Earnings Technical Analysis: AMZN & AAPL

Two giant stocks report earnings in today’s postmarket; Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).

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Risk-Off Mood Pervades Following Surprise Downgrade Of U.S. Treasuries By Fitch Ratings

(Wednesday market open) A defensive, “risk-off” mood gripped global markets early Wednesday after Fitch Ratings’ surprise downgrade of its rating for U.S. Treasuries to AA+ from AAA. The move sparked a rapid retreat from riskier assets, but the bond market saw little initial reaction. Treasuries initially rose following the news.

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Wednesday's Market Minute: If Rates Break Out, Bitcoin's Most At Risk

One key reason why stocks have been so strong is because they’re just not that expensive. It’s true. It’s a brutal pill for bears to swallow, but the most important one: the S&P 500, even after a shocking 27% comeback since the October low, is significantly cheaper than it was during the Covid trading bubble.

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Tuesday's Market Minute: Analyzing Uber Earnings

Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) is trading higher premarket after reporting 2Q earnings. The company missed FactSet revenue estimates but reported a surprise positive EPS. Uber’s gross bookings have seen improvement since even before the pandemic – this quarter’s doubled the same quarter in 2019.

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Mixed Brew: Pfizer, Merck Earnings Head Opposite Ways, But Uber And Caterpillar Slug Line Drives

(Tuesday market open) The new month starts with stocks tinted red, but this week’s main events are just getting underway. A rise in Treasury yields might have investors nervous early Tuesday as the 10-year yield popped back above 4% ahead of key U.S. economic data. Last week’s brief move into that territory weighed on Wall Street.

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Earnings Extravaganza: Another One-Third Of S&P 500 Companies Report This Week, Including Amazon, Apple

(Monday market open) It’s “tech week” on Wall Street. No, wait, it’s “pharma week.” Or is it “employment week?” How about all three?

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Monday's Market Minute: Big Tech Highlights This Week

Let’s take a market minute to get ahead of what looks like another busy week for investors and traders.

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August Outlook: Jackson Hole Beckons For Fed, But Could Events Reprise Last Year's Market Stampede?

The heat dome that’s settled over much of the country this summer might have you wishing for a trip to the mountains, and that’s exactly what the Federal Reserve gets in August at its approaching Jackson Hole symposium.

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Price Pressure Eased In June, Fueling Early Wall Street Gains, But BoJ Rate Policy Move Rattles Market

(Friday market open) Welcome signs of easing U.S. inflation propelled Wall Street to early gains Friday, but the market remains rattled following a policy tweak earlier from the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and worries about the Federal Reserve potentially tightening further.

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Stocks Begin Day With Strength, Propelled By Solid Earnings And Economic Data Including GDP

(Thursday market open) Major indexes turned green in premarket trading on Thursday following solid earnings from Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), acc

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Thursday's Market Minute: Meta Platforms (META) Surges +10% After Earnings Beat

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is on the move after reporting earnings yesterday afternoon, with shares rising more than +10% in premarket trading. Revenue for the second quarter came in at $32B vs. the Street’s estimate of $31.06B, while EPS also beat at $2.98 vs. expectations for $2.92.

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Drama Lacking: Fed Seen Hiking Rates Later Today As Investors Digest Microsoft, Alphabet Results

(Wednesday market open) The Federal Reserve wraps up its July meeting today, and the market widely expects a quarter-point rate increase—and wonders what’s next. There’s debate about whether this is the final hike or if the economy’s summer sizzle might warrant another.

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Wednesday's Market Minute: So Far, So Good

The bullish story in stocks the past 9 months can be broken into three parts: 1) a peak in inflation that set the stage for softer Fed policy, 2) Chat-GPT's AI breakthrough supporting the outlook for tech companies, and 3) better-than-expected economic data concurrent with disinflation trends.

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