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Occidental Petroleum (OXY) Performance Upside, Gains Overweight

Sector Notable performance: Occidental Petroleum has been the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2022 with gains to more ...
MARKETS

Inflation Peaked, Traders Pricing in a Half-Point Rate Increase in September

MARKETS The Federal Reserve will no longer need to raise interest rates as aggressively as most government reports indicate little ...
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Bank Stocks, Recently Outperforming S&P 500 Index

SECTOR TRENDS For the past 45 days, five of the largest U.S. banks have outperformed the S&P 500’s 13% gain. ...
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US Existing Home Sales at 26-Month Low

INDUSTRY REPORT SERIES Existing home sales in the US declined 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million ...
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES

US Jobless Claims Decrease, Lower than Forecast

GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES In the week ending August 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 250,000, a ...
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES

Stocks Slightly Rise on Federal Open Market Committee Minutes

GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES PRESS RELEASE IN FULL For release at 2 p.m. EDT July 27, 2022 Recent indicators of spending ...
SECTOR

Walmart (WMT) Q2 Update Provides Performance Upside, Gains Overweight

Sector Notable performance: over the last 3 months, Walmart (WMT) has outperformed the Consumer Defensive Sector by 1.07 %.  Company ...
MARKETS

Treasury Yields Rise Wednesday on Weaker Demand for Fixed Income Assets

MARKETS The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose just over 8 basis points to 2.904%, while the yield ...
MARKETS

S&P 500 Falls and Breaks Three-Day Winning Streak

MARKETS Investors take advantage of recent gains while the markets awaits minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting Release today ...
MARKETS

U.S. Stock Indexes Neutral, Press Play-up Weak Economic Data from China

MARKETS China unexpectedly cuts key rates as economic data and renews global recession fears. China’s July refinery output lowest since ...
GOVERNMENT REPORT SERIES

Next Week’s Aug 15th thru 19th U.S. Economic Reports

REPORT SERIES Look for market volatility next Week on Wednesday the 17th with retail sales reports and Thursday the 18th ...
INVESTOR SERIES

Get Guide for Dividend Dates

INVESTOR SERIES If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend. If you buy a stock one day ...