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Wall Street is heading for a pivotal week as Big Tech earnings, the Federal Reserve's rate decision and key inflation data test a market hovering near record highs. The busiest stretch begins on Wednesday, when Microsoft and Meta Platforms report earnings before the focus quickly shifts to...
Some dividend streaks survive a rough quarter, but a rare few have held through five decades of recessions, rate spikes, and oil crashes without missing a single raise. These five names show what that kind of durability actually looks like inside a portfolio built to generate passive income.
Seventy companies have raised their dividends through every recession and rate shock for at least a quarter century, but a bruising few quarters for some of NOBL's most-watched names put that unbroken record under real pressure heading into mid-2026.
Iran just shut the Strait of Hormuz, and the ripple effects stretch far beyond rising gas prices. Here is what the closure means for inflation, corporate profits, and every investor watching the market.
The US-Iran ceasefire is fracturing, Brent is climbing, and energy stocks are repricing fast. Whether this is a temporary spike or the beginning of a sustained oil shock will reshape the Fed's next move and every duration-sensitive position in your portfolio.
The Number With oil now trading well below the $100 level (and seemingly poised to continue heading lower, after OPEC announced further production increases recently and recessionary concerns pick up), it’s unclear where certain oil stocks are headed. One such name that’s on my radar right now just reported its Q1 2026 earnings in early ... Oil’s $100 Threshold: What It Means for Energy Stocks Now
Investing.com -- The Trump administration is expanding its effort to reduce federal regulations, proposing to eliminate 702 existing rules across government agencies as part of its latest deregulatory agenda, Bloomberg reported.
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed as we get ready to end the holiday-shortened trading week, with the country preparing to celebrate the 250th birthday of our democratic republic. The stock market will be closed on Friday for the federal holiday, kicking off a long weekend to jump-start the holiday fun. All of the ... Here Are Thursday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Adobe, Chevron, Dana, Honeywell Aerospace, Mobility Global, Ni Source, Palantir, SpaceX, and More
Coming off of May's hot Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) reading, Gradient Investments associate portfolio manager Lisa Schreiber weighs in on how the Federal Reserve may move on interest rates in 2026 based on the latest inflation data.
Bank of America has predicted that the Federal Reserve will be forced to raise interest rates by 75 basis points this year, with the first 25-basis-point hike in September. They also see additional 25-basis-point hikes in October and December. The energy shock from the war with Iran drove inflation higher, with the CPI rising in ... Bank of America Sees Interest Rates Exploding Higher Soon: Play It Safe With 4 Dividend Giants
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower after a mixed start to trading on Monday, following the holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Federal holiday. We may start to see some end-of-the-quarter reallocations and selling for Hedge funds, ETFs, and Mutual Funds this week, and today looks like a starting point. With most corporate buybacks ... Here Are Tuesday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Centene, Darden Restaurants, Flutter Entertainment, GE Healthcare, IBM, Nike,
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Thursday closed up +1.08%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +2.48%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +1.15%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is an integrated energy major whose July 2025 Hess acquisition added Guyana, Bakken, and Gulf of America assets. With WTI near $95 and the Fed funds rate sitting at 3.75% after 75 basis points of cuts, the question I want to answer is whether income investors can trust the payout. Dividend Snapshot Metric ... Chevron Stock Is an Absolute Steal at 11 Times Forward Earnings
US stocks were set to open lower on Wednesday, but investors gained a little confidence from fresh inflation data ahead of the opening bell, while there were conflicting Middle East messages that pushed oil prices higher. Futures pointed to a weaker start on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones,...
During an interview with CNBC, Hassett said that the second consecutive month of over 170,000 nonfarm jobs additions shows that President Donald Trump’s supply-side policies are working well.
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes tumbled on Wednesday, with the Dow losing about 1.2%, the S&P 500 shedding about three-quarters of a percent and the Nasdaq falling roughly nine-tenths of a percent.</p><p>Flaring tensions in the Middle East and rising crude prices stoked inflation jitters and convinced investors to take some profits.</p><p>Energy stocks, buoyed by oil prices, enjoyed the largest percentage gains, with Exxon Mobil and Chevron both closing higher. </p><p>Meanwhile, six of the Magnificent Seven group of megacap tech stocks ended lower, with Meta the only exception.</p><p>Liz Miller is founder and president of Summit Place Financial Advisors.</p><p>"I more and more just keep seeing this market as a ping pong. One day we've got the momentum leading tech stocks up and then that drives all the indices up. And the next day we've got sort of the second tier undervalued companies up and the index is down. [FLASH] Today's again, one of those days where we're seeing energy with the most strength. We're seeing some of the consumer come through, some of the industrial, but techs are marginally down. And that's what I mean when I think about this market as a ping pong market, because these are high quality companies, they're large cap, they would be top tier fundamentally, but they haven't really participated as much in the index strength."</p><p>Among individual movers, shares of GameStop jumped 6% after the original meme stock posted a rise in quarterly revenue and unveiled a $2 billion share buyback program.</p><p>Shares of Crowdstrike, down nearly 3% at the close, dropped about another 10% in extended trading after the cyber security company reported a 15% jump in its first-quarter operating expenses as it ramps up investments in AI and product development.</p><p>And shares of Broadcom fell more than 6% in extended trading despite the company forecasting third-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, betting on robust demand for its custom AI chips and networking gear.</p></body>
Wall Street stocks are expected to go into reverse on Thursday as optimism about the ceasefire in the Gulf and a potential US-Iran peace deal became increasingly strained. Futures for the tech-laded Nasdaq were tipped to lead the decline, down 0.5%, while S&P 500 and Dow Jones futures...
On a recent episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, Bernstein Research senior energy analyst Bob Brackett made a claim that should change how income investors look at the oil majors. “Don’t compare the yields you get from a commodity company to government yields. Compare them to TIPS. These are inflation protected,” he told host Steve ... Energy Stocks Are Secretly Better Than Treasuries. Here’s Why Bob Brackett Is Loading Up on Exxon and Chevron.
US stocks have been predicted to start Monday trading in the red, as they ended last week, with investors continuing to worry about rising bond yields, stubborn inflation and the economic fallout from higher oil prices. Dow Jones futures were down around 262 points or 0.4%, while S&P 500...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.91%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.83%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -1.30%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -1.02%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
First, there was the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) amid rising tariff fears in the months and quarters that followed Liberation Day. These days, there’s growing chatter about the so-called NACHO (Not a Chance Hormuz Opens) trade, which suggests the much-anticipated reopening of the Strait of Hormuz might not happen anytime soon. Indeed, reopening ... Could the Trump NACHO Trade Send Energy Stocks Through the Roof?
The stock market keeps acting like nothing can go wrong. The S&P 500 recently pushed to fresh highs, unemployment held at 4.3%, and President Donald Trump pointed to strong jobs data and rising markets as proof “our country is doing well.” On paper, that argument holds up. But there’s a growing problem hiding underneath the ... What Chevron’s CEO Just Said About Global ‘Supply Outages’ Could Derail Trump’s Economic Momentum
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Friday ahead of the April jobs report. Coinbase and Cloudflare dived on earnings.
Investing.com -- Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee stated on Saturday that recent inflation figures are "bad news" for the U.S. central bank, signaling continued caution regarding interest rate cuts.