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No one gets in trouble owning too many tech stocks: Chart of the Week
More and more funds bought tech stocks over the past 12 months, with GLP-1 maker Eli Lilly the only non-tech cracking the top 10 stocks that saw increased ownership.
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The stickiest part of the inflation story is still sticky: Chart of the Week
April's Consumer Price Index showed inflation moderating, a welcome sign. But as many categories fell, core services inflation has remained a bugaboo for the Fed — and consumers.
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Wall Street’s biggest bull wishes he'd been a bigger bull
One of Wall Street's biggest bulls, BMO's Brian Belski, revised the bank's year-end 2024 forecast for the S&P 500.
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Most Americans don’t expect to work into their mid-60s: Chart of the Week
A regular survey from the New York Fed found that the amount of people expecting to be working at 62 has dropped significantly in the past few years.
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Apple keeps spending less to make more: Chart of the Week
Apple may be having issues keeping its revenue growth up, but its growing services business has turbocharged its margins, which continue to increase significantly overall.
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Tesla and Microsoft presented 2 distinct versions of AI. Investors liked both.
Earnings presentations from four of the biggest tech companies in the world showed two very different visions of AI: the moonshot and the incremental gains.
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The 2 'micro' companies powering the small-cap Russell 2000 this year: Chart of the Week
Index concentration has been a running theme for well over a year, and it's not limited to the S&P 500's "Magnificent Seven" stocks. The small-cap Russell 2000 index has its own set of outperformers, the "Micros."
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AI will reshape the business world — here's where it's hitting first: Chart of the Week
Like much of the contemporary innovation, Big Tech's monopoly on talent and money means that AI's vanguard will take place in the advertising space — just like the internet.
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Nothing in markets goes without saying: Chart of the Week
The precipitous fall of Trump Media, Truth Social's parent company, following a regulatory filing illustrates a cardinal rule in markets.
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The Fed’s massive economic upgrade: Chart of the Week
Investors watched carefully for dot plot changes, but instead got some much bigger news: Jerome Powell and the Fed see 2024 growth coming in at almost double what was expected.
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Cisco stock still isn't back to its 2000 high: Chart of the Week
Investors have been voicing concerns about whether the AI-driven stock market has anything in common with the dot-com boom.
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The S&P 500's last 3 years look completely average: Chart of the Week
The stock market's record highs make people feel uncomfortable, understandably. But metrics other than the raw index numbers tell the story from another perspective: that of average growth.
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Chart of the week: Here's how big Nvidia's record-setting Thursday was
It's difficult to put Nvidia's massive Thursday into context — the stock gained "only" around 20%. But when you're in the top five, a gain like that makes some big waves.
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Chart of the Week: Super Micro is having a super 2024
If AI in 2023 was all about the big companies like Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft, 2024 is shaping up to be about the smaller players catching the wave.
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Chart of the Week: Declining inflation is increasing real wages
One of our key charts from Yahoo Finance's most recent edition of Chartbook that tells the story of 2024 so far.
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Chart of the Week: All-time highs follow all-time highs
As the S&P 500 sits at an all-time high, a basic truth is written in plain sight on every long-term chart. All-time highs are not rare, and they're often followed by new all-time highs.
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Chart of the Week: Rising rates might be fine for the stock market
Weak economic data has been fuel for stocks for quite some time now, especially as investors clamor for lower rates from the Fed. But we might be coming to a fresh moment where strength in the economy means strength in the markets.
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Chart of the Week: Employers are still in search of more employees
Friday's jobs data from December showed a hotter labor market than economists expected — which could spook investors set on a March rate cut from the Fed. But these numbers might not shake that March narrative.
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Chart of the Week: Prices actually went down — they didn't just grow slower
After around 44 months — since April 2020 — prices have finally dropped according to the Fed's preferred inflation gauge.
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Chart of the week: The light at the end of the Fed’s tunnel gets brighter
All of a sudden, the Fed's plans for 2024 look a lot better for investors — as the cuts may come sooner.