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History suggests stocks are due for a pause

History suggests stocks are due for a pause

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), Nasdaq 100 (^NDX), and S&P 500 (^GSPC) all notched record highs on Wednesday. The latter, the world’s benchmark stock index, also came tantalizingly close to hitting the big, psychological 5,000 level for the first time. Meanwhile, stocks are now in one of the seasonally weakest months of the year, with an even weaker month ahead… Source link

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The long pause between record highs is bullish

The long pause between record highs is bullish

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Monday, its second straight record close after Friday saw the index break a two-year streak without a record high. And stock market history suggests this break between records portends a better-than-average year ahead for the S&P 500. In a note to clients on Monday, Keith Lerner, co-chief investment officer at Truist, noted that in 13… Source link

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Trump seeks to hold special counsel in contempt for violating pause in election case

Trump seeks to hold special counsel in contempt for violating pause in election case

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s lawyers on Thursday asked a judge to hold U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court, accusing his office of violating an order pausing activity in its prosecution of the former president for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s legal team said Smith and prosecutors working on the case have disregarded an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan by continuing to turn over evidence to the defense and… Source link

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