Plus, Moderna said its booster shot is effective at protecting against COVID-19 variants in early trial data, Papa John’s smashed earnings expectations, and jobless claims dropped to a pandemic era low.
Read MorePlus, Peloton has recalled all of its treadmill models for safety concerns, GM smashed earnings expectations, and Equinox has held talks to go public via a SPAC merger.
Read MorePlus, Apple delivered a massive earnings beat, Altria shares are down on mixed earnings results and Biden administration plans to ban menthol cigarettes, and Ethereum rose to a new all-time high.
Read MoreMore and more this year, consumers have been thinking about the activities they’ve been deprived from enjoying because of pandemic-driven restrictions, and what they might want to do as the economy starts to reopen. For the market, that’s good news that has prompted investors to start paying more attention to companies in industries that traditionally […]
Read MorePlus, Nikola shares are up after announcing a collaboration on hydrogen fueling stations with TravelCenters of America, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines reported earnings, and Amazon could soon bring its cashierless checkout technology to its full-size grocery stores.
Read MorePlus, Fed Chairman Powell said the U.S. economy is at an “inflection point” in an interview this weekend, Apple is reportedly building a new Apple TV device, and Uber reported record gross bookings in March.
Read MoreUnprecedented fiscal stimulus and an impending end to the pandemic could see an economic boom “easily run into 2023,” according to JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon in his annual letter to shareholders out this week.
Read MorePlus, the U.S. added seven Chinese supercomputing firms to its blacklist on national security concerns, GameStop is naming Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen as chairman of the board, and CommScope is spinning off its home networking business.
Read MorePlus, the Supreme Court just sided with Google against Oracle, Tesla beat on Q1 delivery and production expectations, and AMC got an upgrade.
Read MorePlus, initial jobless claims came in higher than expected, Johnson & Johnson lost 15 million COVID-19 doses to a manufacturing error, and Funko shares are up after it gets into the NFT business.
Read MoreThis week I’ve turned my focus primarily back on the Food Products industry in the Consumer Staples sector. It’s an area of the market that doesn’t get much buzz from market media types because it isn’t very sexy – but it is one of very few segments of the market that has seen consumer-driven improvements […]
Read MoreMoving deeper into 2021, more and more investors and analysts continue to attempt to look past the pandemic-driven pressures that have weighed on public activities and on the economy for the past year. One-year anniversaries are being marked, with the apparent assumption that with vaccines being administered on an accelerated basis and being made available […]
Read MoreIt is interesting to observe the distinction in performance between different sectors and industries, and their possible correlation to broader economic activity. One of the places where I think that can be seen more easily is in evaluating large-cap versus small-cap stocks. If you look at most of the biggest and most recognizable names in […]
Read MorePlus, AstraZeneca revised the trial data of its COVID-19 vaccine following questions of accuracy in the U.S. study, JetBlue announced a new travel booking site, and Darden Restaurants delivered better-than-expected earnings results.
Read MoreOne of the open questions of the past year has been about the point in time where questions, discussions and commentary about the economy and the world don’t continue to revolve around the pandemic. That question remains unanswered, but as an analyst, part of my job is to sift through the relentless, constant stream of […]
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