The S&P 500 closed the week below fresh highs thanks to a bout in tech and relative weakness in some semiconductors. The rally is broadening, though, with XLI and XLV appearing to be well-positioned.

Unity Software is a content-creation engine for video game development. Unity Software has seen its fundamentals stabilize thanks to conservative 2024 guidance. That sets the company up for potential upwardly-revised forecasts in future earnings.

The 'Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator' is a light-hearted, but ultimately unreliable, theory that the outcome of the Super Bowl can predict the performance of the stock market for the rest of the year. Let's take a look at how it works.

Fast-growing U.S. natural gas exports are likely to reduce domestic supplies significantly over the next several years. I want to assure you that everything has been going according to plan for the natural gas industry -- that is, until now.

The cryptocurrency market looks ready to close one of its most volatile weeks in recent times. Most assets went on a roller-coaster, seesawing between red and green within hours for most of the week. Fortunately, the storm has mostly passed.

This week will be busy, and if you are taking time off, don’t. The news starts on Monday and runs through Friday morning, and it will impact where stocks and rates go from here. If you forgot what kicked off the rally, it is time for a refresher.

Investment preferences and choices often evolve over time based on several factors, including nature of investment products, technology in delivery, socio-economic status of society, and performance of investment products, to name a few.

Most stocks appear to be correcting and consolidating the big gains of the final two months of 2023. The true market leaders, however, finished correcting in mid-January and have been moving higher since then.

Last week saw much weaker directional volatility in the Forex market, as only one significant currency pair fluctuated by more than 1%. There was important action in stock markets, especially in the US and Japan.

Celldex Therapeutics is one of our top picks for the year. With very good data and the financing behind it, now could be the time to take advantage of the pullback in shares to initiate and/or add to positions.

This brief video provides a look into effective stop-loss strategies, decision-making in fluctuating markets, and optimizing your trades for success.

Health-care services provider BrightSpring, which is backed by private equity firm KKR, priced its initial public offering at $13, below a marketed range of $15 to $18 per share, before opening on Friday a dollar below that IPO price.

I previously reported that the U.S. set a new oil production record in 2023 and became the world’s top liquefied natural gas exporter. I also noted that it was likely that the U.S. set a natural gas production record in 2023.

Mission accomplished on inflation. Yahoo Finance reported Friday: “The Fed's preferred inflation measure — a "core" Personal Consumption Expenditures index that excludes volatile food and energy prices — clocked in at 2.9% for the month of December".

The euphoria with the fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figure makes no sense. The headline champions say that real GDP increased at an annual rate of 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the Bureau of Economic Statistics.

The pound ended the week flat, with the UK and the US economies showing resilience. Business activity in the manufacturing and services sectors for both countries rose. As a result, traders pushed back bets for rate cuts in the UK and the US.

Pullbacks at this point in time has to be looked at through the prism of a potential value play and you would be remiss to think that you have an opportunity to sell this market because quite frankly, it's just ripping straight in the air.

WTI Crude Oil went into the weekend around its high for the week above 78.000, this after beginning trading on the 22nd of January below 73.000 USD.

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss record-breaking rents that see most renters forking over more than 30% of their dough. Also: Infant apparel brand Kyte Baby’s maternity leave scandal, and why Josh wine is such a hit.

This new wave of retrenchments could see as many as 170 million layoffs this year alone. Like many real and imagined evils these days, we can thank AI and big corporations... but is it that simple?