This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: The broadening of the AI trade is here. One of the most common calls among Wall Street strategists entering the year was for the AI trade to expand further from seven key popular…
There’s no shortage of great companies to invest in, but narrowing down your decision to just a couple of top stocks can be difficult. Volatility in the market earlier this year has left some investors wondering which companies have the stability, growth prospects, and lead in their respective markets to be long-term winners. If you’re…
It was another exciting week on Wall Street as the S & P 500 and Nasdaq each closed Friday at new record highs. Incredible as that was, this week could have easily gone another way. Last Saturday, the world learned that the U.S. had entered the Israel-Iran conflict, dropping several massive bunker busters on Fordo, Iran’s…
This week’s highlights: Given all that has transpired in the first half of this year, many investors might be surprised to look at their portfolios and find some good news. US stocks are up about 5% so far in 2025, and a 60/40 stock and bond portfolio is clocking in at about a 6% gain….
Just as they say you never step into the same river twice, the view from a given summit is never quite the same upon a second visit. The S & P 500 has fully scaled its way to its first record high in more than four months on Friday, recovering what was at the intraday…
Microsoft (MSFT) bulls have had plenty to cheer about. Just behind Meta Platforms (META), the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant has been the second-best performer within the Magnificent 7 group, up 17% year-to-date, and an additional 24% since its Fiscal Q3 earnings. Beyond a calmer market tone following the tariff scare, Microsoft’s defensive qualities—which have stood…
Tens of thousands of people have lined the streets in Iran’s capital, Tehran, as the country held a funeral service for military commanders, nuclear scientists and some civilians killed in Israeli attacks earlier this month. State TV showed footage of people donning black clothes, waving Iranian flags and holding pictures of some of the dead…
As Canada pushes ahead with a new digital services tax on foreign and domestic technology companies, United States President Donald Trump has retaliated by ending all trade talks and threatened to impose additional tariffs on exports from Ottawa. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump called the new Canadian tax structure…
CNN — President Donald Trump said Friday he has put an end to trade talks with Canada and will soon announce a new tariff rate for that country, he said in a Truth Social post on Friday. The decision to end negotiations, which have been ongoing for several months, came after Canada announced a digital…
President Donald Trump said Friday that he had terminated trade discussions with Canada, citing an incoming Canadian tax on tech companies including those based in the U.S. In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to Canada as “a very difficult country to trade with” and said that its levy on tech firms — the…