The stock market

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Home Depot reports another quarter of soft earnings as potential rate cut comes into view

Lower interest rates could provide a boost for Home Depot.

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Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq futures point higher with key inflation data looming

Investors are anxious for several economic datapoints this week, starting with inflation.

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Inflation expected to hold steady in July as investors eye rate cuts

On Wednesday, investors will digest one of the most important data points that will shape future Federal Reserve interest rate policy: July's Consumer Price Index.

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Stock market today: US futures mark time in countdown to key inflation report

Wall Street awaited a key signal on consumer prices that is set to help shape the near-term future of interest-rate policy

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Estee Lauder forecasts bleak annual results; CEO Freda to depart

(Reuters) -Estee Lauder forecast annual profit and sales below estimates as the global beauty market struggles with slowing demand mainly in the China market and said CEO Fabrizio Freda was retiring after nearly 16 years at the helm. Freda, 66, who is retiring in June, was named the CEO in 2009...

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Stock market today: US futures steady as countdown to Jackson Hole begins

Investors are counting down to a speech by Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole that could reset rate-cut expectations.

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Past 2 days rocket lab has looked good.

 

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Why the pop?

 

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Estee Lauder forecasts bleak annual results; CEO Freda to depart

(Reuters) -Estee Lauder forecast annual profit and sales below estimates as the global beauty market struggles with slowing demand mainly in the China market and said CEO Fabrizio Freda was retiring after nearly 16 years at the helm. Freda, 66, who is retiring in June, was named the CEO in 2009...

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Rut-Ro, Merlot futures may rise!!

 

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Rut-Ro, Merlot futures may rise!!

Yeah. As someone drinks more and creates a shortage.

 

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Why the pop?

Not too sure, I was looking on my Charles Schwab account during the pop and nothing in the news section as of recent. Few days before the pop they did deliver 2 rockets down to Cape Canaveral. Not sure if that was it.

 

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Microsoft's dominant 21st century offers a key lesson for stock market investors: Morning Brief

Over the last 25 years, change among the world's largest companies has been dramatic. But Microsoft is the only company to have been been ranked inside the top 10 consistently since the turn of the century.

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So now they "think" they have the numbers right. Smoke and mirrors.

Fed confronts up to a million US jobs vanishing in revision

(Bloomberg) -- US job growth in the year through March was likely far less robust than initially estimated, which risks fueling concerns that the Federal Reserve is falling further behind the curve to lower interest rates. Most Read from BloombergA Floating Island in Baltimore Raises Hope for a...

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Bought some shares of B&W recently.

 

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Stock market today: Nasdaq leads US futures higher as Powell waits in the wings

Investors are bracing for a pivotal speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell that is likely to shape expectations on policy, the economy, and the future path of interest rates.

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I have added to positions along the way, but nothing really "new". I did manage to get some cash into that recent dip. Would have done better, but the glitch at Schwab prevented a couple trades.

I did grab a few ETF's earlier in the year, they are producing nicely.

 

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Can't go wrong with some ETFs

 

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Fed Chair Powell speaks at Jackson Hole

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled the “time has come” to begin the long awaited start to the rate cut cycle. He made these remarks from Jackson Hole Wyoming in a speech that is considered a “make or break” moment for the U.S. economy as investors now gauge the potential size of the...

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And the market pops!