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JPMorgan Chase’s profit in the second quarter rose 41% from a year ago to $21.2 billion, the bank said Tuesday. Excluding significant items, the bank's’s net income was $16.9 billion. Shares of the largest U.S. bank rose 1.3% in premarket trading.

Market pulses were elevated on Tuesday as Wall Street contended with surging oil prices amid renewed fighting in the Middle East and braced for key economic indicators from the Consumer Price Index and the Fed, and earnings from America's big banks. The Cboe Volatility Index, or Vix, rose 1% to 17.32. The widely watched gauge takes the temperature of Wall Street and any reading above 20 tends to indicate increased market volatility.

Since July 2021, the S&P 500 has delivered a total return of 73.1%. But one standout stock has nearly doubled the market - over the past five years, Nicolet Bankshares has surged 136% to $164.67 per share. Its momentum hasn’t stopped as it’s also gained 26.4% in the last six months thanks to its solid quarterly results, beating the S&P by 17.1%.

Several Fed officials expect at least one interest rate increase this year, and history says that could lead to a stock market correction.

Wall Street closed lower on Monday as rising oil prices and escalating U.S.-Iran tensions pressured market sentiment.

Tech stocks were on course to pare back some of their recent losses on Tuesday, although the broader market looked set to struggle as investors fretted about the flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 137 points, or 0.3%.

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment improved to ‘bullish’ on QQQ, and declined to ‘neutral’ on SPY.

An expected decline in headline inflation for June doesn't tell the full story.

Brent crude oil rose back above $85 a barrel for the first time in a month in early European trade following the third straight night of U.S. attacks on Iran, and its renewed blockade on Iranian trade.

The chipmaker continues to ride the coattails of AI adoption.

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Conagra Brands’ dividend might face a cut this week. A terrible environment for consumer staples is putting pressure on plenty of other food stocks’ payouts too, especially candy and meat companies. Conagra Brands has seen its shares tumble 17% this year, pushing its dividend yield north of 10%.

SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of the 10 Stocks Investors Are Running Away From. SanDisk snapped a three-day winning streak on Tuesday, slashing 12.63 percent of its value to close at $1,673.97 apiece, after a heavy selloff in the wider market, thanks to the re-escalating tensions between the US and Iran. Investors appeared to have […]

AppLovin Corp. (NASDAQ:APP) is one of the 10 Stocks Investors Are Running Away From. AppLovin extended its losing streak to a 5th consecutive day on Monday, slashing 12.65 percent to end at $442.85 apiece, as investors resumed selling positions amid a pessimistic wider market triggered by the re-escalating tensions between the US and Iran. The […]

Astera Labs Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) is one of the 10 Stocks Investors Are Running Away From. Astera Labs fell for a second day on Tuesday, losing 12.33 percent to finish at $362.05 apiece, as investor sentiment was primarily dampened by the re-escalating tensions between the US and Iran. In a social media post over the weekend, […]

Stock market investors are heading into CPI week with a familiar playbook. The hope is that inflation cools off further and the Fed stays on hold, with robust earnings taking over as the next driver of the S&P 500. For perspective, the S&P 500 recently traded near 7,575, up about 10.7% year ...

It’s not Christmas in July, but investors are seeing red. Stocks struggled to start the week between renewed hostilities in the on-again, off-again war in Iran and a lack of support from artificial intelligence and tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 0.3% while the S&P 500 lost 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.6%.

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President Donald Trump said the U.S. would resume a blockade of Iranian ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended lower on Monday, with the Dow losing about a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 falling roughly eight-tenths of a percent and the Nasdaq dropping more than one-and-a-half percent.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Oil prices jumped after President Donald Trump announced he would reinstate a blockade on Iranian ports in the latest escalation of U.S.-Iran hostilities.</p><p>Alexander Morris is CEO and chief investment officer of F/m Investments.</p><p>"Anyone watching the market today is really seeing what happens when there is confusion in the market, of information. We have a weekend where we think that Iran is sorting itself out, and then the blockade is back on.&nbsp;The ceasefire is teetering, but we're shooting at each other.&nbsp;Confusion is back.&nbsp;The dollar is down.&nbsp;The [yield] curve is up.&nbsp;It seems like the market is starting to price back in the fact that any of the good news bits that we had previously thought might be the start of the end are actually maybe just the end of the beginning."</p><p>Chip stocks, which have tended to lead the market through both rally and selloff, slid on Monday,&nbsp;with SanDisk, Marvell Technology and Intel dropping between about 6% and 12.5%.</p><p>And after a stellar Nasdaq debut on Friday, U.S.-listed shares of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix sank more than 9%.</p><p>On the flip side, energy stocks led the gainers, as crude prices surged more than 9%. Shares of Chevron added more than 3% while Exxon Mobil&nbsp;climbed 4%.</p><p>Higher oil costs fueled worries that strained supply and upward price pressures could broaden into long-term, systemic inflation.</p><p>To that end, the Labor Department is expected to release its consumer and producer price indexes this week, which will give markets and the Federal Reserve a glimpse at the extent to which the on-again-off-again U.S.-Iran war affected price growth in June.</p></body>

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In the most recent trading session, Clearway Energy (CWEN) closed at $33.19, indicating a -1.43% shift from the previous trading day.

The latest trading day saw SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG) settling at $52.13, representing a -5.53% change from its previous close.

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