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Big banks continue to grow their profits, but the initial market reaction to earnings from JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) looks mixed early Tuesday. Both of the banks easily beat earnings per share estimates, but that included tax credits and other...

When Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched Prime Day in 2015, the e-commerce giant changed online shopping like no company before. Four years later, other mega retailers have decided to benefit from the now two-day summer sale that boosts Amazon’s bottom line as well as traffic to its...

Earnings season shifted into first gear Monday as Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) posted better than expected results and saw shares rise in pre-market trading. A host of bank earnings take aim at Wall Street over the next few days, but this looks like a nice way to start the journey. Citigroup’...

Citigroup (NYSE: C) reports earnings this morning and unofficially kicks off earnings season. Financials lead the major sectors reporting quarterly results this week with a few blue chip names also in the mix. The major indices hit record levels last week, so investor expectations are bullish...

In this information age, there are many ways to stay in touch with what’s going on. And this week, the market seems to have gotten its latest sense of direction on the wings of a dove. Specifically, dovish commentary from Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week that reinforced expectations of a...

July started off with a bang for equities, with three of the four major index futures reaching new all-time highs. S&P futures closed above the 3,000 level for the first time yesterday, cruising into another fresh peak in the overnight session above 3,012 before pulling back. Dow futures,...

In many ways, things still seem stacked against big banks as earnings season approaches. Mortgage rates continue to fall and the Treasury yield curve remains inverted. U.S. and global economic growth haven’t bounced back much. Also, banks face tough year-over-year earnings comparisons in Q2...

As we head into day two of Jerome Powell’s testimony on Capitol Hill, the focus will shift from Fed dovishness and expectations for a rate cut later this month to inflation figures due out today and tomorrow. Yesterday, Powell in comments to the House stated, “uncertainties around trade...

There’s a lot of doom and gloom hanging over Q2 earnings for most of the S&P 500’s 11 sectors, but the Communications Services sector, with quarterly numbers ready to roll out in coming weeks, isn’t among them. Thanks to a still considerably healthy job market, mostly...

With the biggest market event of the summer just a little over two weeks away, traders and investors remain fixated on Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve. Despite the bond market’s near-perfect pricing of a July interest rate cut, keen observers were reminded this past week that those chances...

When we think of the typical American consumer, we often think about someone who’s part of a family. Our thoughts drift toward the “regular” middle-class family with two parents and two kids. That image, however, is changing. The United States is undergoing something of a...

After a rough Q1 earnings season for many major Energy sector companies, it looks like things are slowly turning around as the next reporting period looms. However, the sector continues to sputter amid soft product prices that may reflect slowing global economic growth. The operative word might be...

Apple's stock fell over 2 percent Monday as multiple bad news blows hit the company: Rosenblatt downgraded the stock to sell from neutral, citing estimates that iPhone sales would drop in 2H19, and VirnetX won a patent appeal case against the company, which could lead to a substantial payout....

The Fed is in focus this week as investors continue to digest bumper jobs data that dampened expectations for an aggressive 50-basis-point rate cut at the central bank’s meeting later this month. While the market still expects a cut of 25 basis points, the scaled back outlook has dampened...

Technology is the second-best performing sector over the last month, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to blow people away with Q2 earnings results. Since the start of June, Technology shares are up nearly 7%, better than any sector besides Materials. Strong Technology...