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The risk of a recession “is getting higher and higher,” says veteran economist Mohamed El-Erian. “My definition of a recession is a holistic definition. It goes well beyond two quarters of negative GDP,” said the chief economic advisor of Allianz and former CEO of PIMCO. “The labor market is too strong. Consumer spending is too strong. Business balance sheets are too strong. We simply are not in a recession. Is the risk of recession high? Yes, it is high and getting higher,”… Source link

Target stock could stay in the penalty box as the retailer aggressively sells slow-moving inventory and industry discounting picks up amid the economic slowdown, Jefferies analyst Stephanie Wissink warns. Wissink, citing “profit warnings from peers & suppliers and pressure on discretionary wallets,” slashed her EPS estimates on Target for the balance of 2022 and 2023 in a new note on Monday. “The cut to our model appears drastic at face value, fully discounting Target’s ability to bounce back… Source link

Starbucks stock (SBUX) has fallen out of favor with investors. Shares of the coffee-selling powerhouse are down 20% in the past year, according to Yahoo Finance Plus data, badly lagging the S&P 500’s 14% gain. McCafé coffee seller McDonald’s has seen its stock rise 6% in the past year, while Restaurant Brands (which owns coffee chain Tim Horton’s) shares are down 10%. Jefferies analyst Andy Barish in a new note on Wednesday points to three things holding back shares of Starbucks. “The factors… Source link

There are a couple reasons why investors should use the weakness in markets as a good buying opportunity even in front of notable risks like the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to fight inflation and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, argues strategists at JPMorgan. “Despite the current tumultuous conditions, we believe a lot of risk is already priced in, sentiment is depressed and investor positioning is low, so we would add to risk with a medium-term horizon. We would advise against… Source link

The popular Vanced YouTube app is being discontinued, after a legal threat from Google. The creators of Vanced have revealed the project will be shut down in the coming days, with download links set to be removed. While the app will continue to work for anyone who currently has it installed on Android, without any future updates it’s likely to stop working at some point soon. The Vanced owners say they’ve had to discontinue the project “due to legal reasons.” Google sent the… Source link

And just like that, struggling Kohl’s is one of the hottest commodities on Wall Street.  Guggenheim retail analyst Robert Drbul said in a new research note on Friday Amazon could express interest in buying Kohl’s. “Among the opportunities would be 1) customers, 2) categories, and 3) locations,” Drbul said. “For customers, according to Numerator, ~62% of Kohl’s shoppers are Prime members today, so there may be an incremental Prime opportunity for Amazon. Numerator data also shows that Kohl’s… Source link

As 2022 quickly progresses towards the end of a turbulent first month for markets, it appears that the transitory vs. persistent inflation debate, which was a hot topic for financial markets in the late summer and early fall of 2021, is coming to a close: Inflation has been more persistent than a transient and impermanent blip in an otherwise vibrant economy. The Federal Reserve described high inflation rates as transitory as recently as November, and while some analysts remain firmly seated… Source link

Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff is stepping down for health reasons, and the six-year-old company and its products will be folded into Google, he wrote in a blog post Thursday. Doctoroff says he’s been diagnosed with what may be ALS and wants to spend more time with his family. “Starting next year, Sidewalk products Pebble, Mesa, Delve, and Affordable Electrification will join Google, becoming core to Google’s urban sustainability product efforts,” Doctoroff wrote in the post…. Source link

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, an avid Twitter user, posed a question for his 62 million followers in early November: Should he sell 10% of his stock in the electric carmaker? The CEO, who’s also chief executive of SpaceX, proceeded to unload over $9 billion in Tesla stock that month and sold an additional $963 million in Tesla shares this week. The stock has fallen about 18% since Nov. 4, the week before Musk began his relentless sell-off. While it might be unusual to poll Twitter followers about stock… 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 Monday, December 6, 2021 Most investors will enter this week confused after battling through another topsy-turvy trading week.  Bitcoin nosedived at its worst by 20% over the weekend (more on that below). Last week, the S&P 500 saw five straight losses of at least 1% at one point each day, according to Bloomberg data. Small-cap stocks as measured… Source link