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Stock futures opened little changed Monday evening on the heels of another record-setting session, with investors looking ahead to the start of earnings results from mega-cap technology companies on Tuesday. Contracts on the S&P 500 drifted after the blue-chip index eked out a record closing and intraday high during the regular trading day. The Dow and Nasdaq also closed at records and moved sideways in late trading.  On Tuesday, investors are set to receive quarterly earnings results from… Source link

Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has taken off, and there’s no sign it’s slowing down.  And yet, when it comes to choosing assets that align with their values, investors are still relying heavily on brand perception rather than companies’ policies on ESG-related issues. A recent survey conducted by Investopedia and TreeHugger asked respondents to choose stocks that they thought performed best by ESG standards. Surprisingly, many of the top picks were middling… Source link

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The S&P 500 swooned briefly this week, falling around 2.5% on July 19, before recovering through Friday. During that brief time, scores of retail investors trained by the mantra “buy the dip” did just that. So what happened? DataTrek’s Nicholas Colas hypothesized that the retail investor behavior we’ve seen play out over the past 18 months likely recurred. Searches for “Dow Jones” spiked during Monday’s market dip, Colas pointed out, and a note from Goldman Sachs indicated… Source link

Bitcoin is falling a day after the options market saw increased demand for out-of-the-money or lower strike put options at $22,000 and $20,000. The leading cryptocurrency was trading at a three-week low of $30,700 at press time, representing a 3.5% drop on the day. The decline has flipped the crucial 50-week simple moving average (SMA) support of $32,250 into resistance. On Sunday, 500 contracts of the $22,000 put option expiring on Dec. 31 changed hands via the institution-focused… Source link

F45 Training (FXLV), the fitness franchise backed by actor Mark Wahlberg, got a workout in its Wall Street debut on July 15. Shares of the Austin, Texas-based company rose as much as 11%, then briefly fell below the offer price of $16 a share, before closing up 1.3% to $16.20. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Founder and CEO Adam Gilchrist compared F45’s IPO to that of another franchise fitness chain, Planet Fitness (PLNT). “We wanted to obviously be in a position to replicate the… Source link

While the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average have continued to power to new highs seemingly everyday this summer, the small-cap Russell 2000 Index has been OK with sitting the dance out completely.  After peaking in March, strategists at Renaissance Macro Research note the Russell 2000 Index is now at new year-to-date relative lows versus the S&P 500. Over the last six months, the Russell 2000 Index — which houses smaller U.S. focused companies — is up a mere 1.9%. The S&P 500 and… Source link

U.S. stocks traded mixed on Monday as investors awaited signs of a further rebound in corporate profits with the start of second-quarter earnings season this week. The Dow dropped to pull back from Friday’s record closing high. The S&P 500 also hovered just below an all-time high. The Nasdaq gained to reach a new record intraday high, however, as technology stocks outperformed. The 10-year Treasury yield steadied around 1.35%, recovering after dipping to a five-month low of below 1.3% last… Source link

Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google recently partnered with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) to develop new 5G and edge cloud solutions for telecom companies and enterprise customers. Google already provides cloud services to Ericsson, one of the world’s top telecommunications equipment providers, but the new partnership will expand that relationship with the co-development of new services at Ericsson’s D-15 Labs in Silicon Valley, as well as a pilot… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, June 23, 2021 GameStop saves money by raising money The “meme trade” has been one of the market’s defining trades this year.  And while some investors have chosen to ignore the action we’ve seen in shares of GameStop (GME) or AMC (AMC) amid a value rotation, rising bond yields, and a booming economy, these retail-driven trading frenzies… Source link