Higher-quality stocks with more achievable relative growth rates and earnings estimates could be investors’ best bets for hedging against mounting market uncertainty, according to Trivariate Research. Rising uncertainty stemming from President Donald Trump’s April 2 “reciprocal” tariff rollout has plagued markets , with the S & P 500 suffering a four-day string of losses and…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, March 19 1. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang laid out the roadmap to remain dominant at GTC yesterday. The demand for the Club name’s chips is ridiculous, and there’s no end to AI spending in sight. I’m interviewing Jensen on CNBC in the 10 a.m. ET hour this morning. 2….
Inflation readings next week will have to show that the rosy macroeconomic outlook underpinning the bull case for stocks remains intact, in order to reassure a whipsawed market swinging between the latest earnings news and the latest tariff updates. Wall Street is in for a quieter economic calendar in the week ahead, but investors will…
Goldman Sachs is out with its much anticipated 2025 equity outlook to clients and it calls for stocks to gain 11% from here (12% total return with dividends) as a growing economy and improving profit margins fuel sizable earnings growth. “Our view is predicated on continued US economic expansion, earnings growth of 11% in 2025…