On today’s episode of Free Lunch, Associate Stock Strategist Ryan McQueeney recaps the morning’s top stock market news, including Nvidia’s latest product announcements, headline volatility in the brokerage space, and retail earnings reports. Later, he explains why e-commerce behemoth Amazon is a strong buy stock right now.
Month: November 2019
Netflix has a dominant position in the streaming wars but, while analysts believe the steadily increasing number of well-funded competing services will take a bite out of the company’s advantage, most do not expect Netflix will lose many subscribers. “Netflix is likely to see some incremental churn from new competition – but it should be
Tom Werner | DigitalVision | Getty Images Consumer inflation is expected to have risen slightly in October over September, but Fed officials are unlikely to see higher prices as a threat for some time to come. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made that clear when he discussed inflation following the Fed’s last meeting Oct. 30. At
Thanks to both Canadian legalization as well as the 2018 farm bill here in the states, North America has essentially become “little Amsterdam.” Moreover, favorably shifting public sentiment in the U.S. has made cannabis-infused beverage companies like New Age Beverages (NASDAQ:NBEV) intriguing for both consumers and investors alike. Particularly, NBEV stock appeals for the underlying
“Cheap” stocks aren’t necessarily the best cheap stocks to buy. And dividend stocks, even those with a high payout, aren’t necessarily safe. A low share price attracts some investors. So does a high dividend. But both can actually be signs of danger. After all, a stock under $10 almost always has declined a long way
Online real estate is a booming market, and among the better-known players in that space is Seattle-based Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z, NASDAQ:ZG). If you want to take a long position in this specific niche, buying Z stock is one of the simplest and most direct ways to do it. Source: Shutterstock August wasn’t exactly a great
In what may prove to be a positive sign, stocks were mostly flat Tuesday, even after President Trump threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese imports if the two countries cannot finalize Phase 1 of a trade agreement. Source: Finviz The S&P 500 moved higher by 0.16%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day flat. The Nasdaq Composite inched higher
Seasonality takes the price higher The injection season is ending The risk of a long position rises with the price of the energy commodity Natural gas is a volatile fuel in its physical form, and the price action in the futures market can be equally combustible at times. Periodic price explosions and impositions are the
Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 15, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE | AFP | Getty Images Earnings in 2019 are setting a low bar to clear in 2020, paving the way for stocks to continue their record-setting rally, according to
A customer holds a shopping basket inside a Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, June 20, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of DXC Technology plunged 17% during extended trading after the IT company reported second
It’s a tricky time to be an investor right now. The market keeps climbing to new highs, but the threat of a recession continues to loom as political uncertainty and troubling macroeconomic factors keep investors from getting too comfortable. The result has been an unstable bull market in which traders are constantly worried about a
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) reported third-quarter results on Oct. 31 that were mediocre. However, it did manage to report earnings per share of 69 cents, 15 cents higher than analysts’ average estimate. Kraft Heinz stock jumped more than 13% on the positive surprise. Source: Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com As a result of the better-than-expected earnings, my
If you bought shares of Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) stock back in 1999 at $88 a share, I feel a bit sorry for you. And if you held on to QCOM stock throughout the decades, you finally achieved break-even last week and now you’re in the green. Source: Akshdeep Kaur Raked / Shutterstock.com What a long, strange
It was a relatively quiet session in the stock market today, at least when it comes to the overall indices. However, one bit of interesting news making the rounds was the new potential leader of WeWork. When WeWork was trying to come public, we addressed it in the Stock Market Today column. The company was
With the decade drawing to a close Bank of America has identified 10 important investing themes to watch over the next 10 years. Underpinning the list is the tectonic societal shifts that the firm anticipates will play out over the next decade. The firm said that the coming decade will be “unlike any before it”
The initial public offering of Saudi Arabia’s big oil company could be priced right in the middle of what could be a volatile period for oil. Saudi Aramco intends to price its IPO on Dec. 5, the same day OPEC begins its regular two-day meeting in Vienna. The Aramco stock, equal to 0.5% of the
Everybody and his uncle was buzzing about Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC) stock last week — and given how it shot up like Evel Kenievel out of a cannon, I can’t blame them for their enthusiasm. At the risk of burying the lead, as they say, I’d like to direct your attention to the equally important player in
Even though the U.S.-China trade war is seemingly easing, it could flare back up again at any time. As a result, many investors are still looking for defensive stocks to buy now. Of course, in the most extreme example, you can elect to go all into cash. However, history has proven that to be the
It’s already here. The sights. The sounds. The red cups. The holiday spending frenzy is once upon us — whether we are ready for it or not. For many retail stocks, this is the most critical period all year. The don’t call it Black Friday for nothing. However, the consumer spending environment continues to get
After slumping earlier in Monday’s session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stormed back to notch a modest gain of 0.03% to start the week. That’s not spectacular, but it’s also decent considering where the blue-chip index started the day and the sheer amount of Dow-related headlines there were for market participants to digest today. Source:
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