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

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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!

Wednesday's Market Minute: Bulls Need A Hero

Since last month’s GDP print beat expectations, U.S. equities have done a U-turn, volatility’s risen, and stocks are trading one-to-one with bonds again – the hallmark of last year’s bear market.

Tuesday's Market Minute: TGT, WMT Earnings Reveal Low Price Leader of Big Box Stores

Retail sales posted better-than-expected numbers for July, instilling some hope in the strength of the consumer as inflation normalizes. But what will two of the largest retailers tell us about how consumers are spending their money?

Monday's Market Minute: This Week's Focus: The Consumer

Let's begin our look at the week ahead with the three big retailers reporting earnings: Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), and Target (NYSE: TGT).

Friday's Market Minute: Disinflation Tailwinds Are Fading

It’s been a volatile trading week despite an inflation report for both core and headline inflation that came in roughly in line. Investors remain optimistic that the Fed won’t need to raise rates in September even as July CPI rose less than estimates at 3.2% year-over-year due to base effect comparisons versus June coming in at 3.0%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Friday's Market Minute: The Competition For Yield Heats Up

The Fed raised its policy rate again this past Wednesday to levels not observed in over two decades. At the center of the interest rate debate is core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation, which at 4.6% remains markedly above the Fed's 2% target.

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.

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.

Tuesday's Market Minute: Choppy Equities As China Ramps Stimulus

The market has experienced choppy action over the last several sessions, exhibiting lower volume as traders eagerly await earnings results from significant tech giants such as Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Meta Platforms (NASD

Monday's Market Minute: S&P Futures Sluggish, But Big Week Ahead

S&P 500 Futures were little changed on Friday, but earnings season will kick into high gear this week so traders had better be ready for some action. The price movement was interesting on the /ES, as the contract lifted into new yearly highs on Jul. 19, but also failed to convincingly break out of the upward channel that it has traded within beginning in early March.