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Despite the ever scary inflation headlines, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) are flirting with record highs.  That’s counter to prevailing wisdom, right?  On paper, increasing inflationary pressure brought on mostly from the pandemic should be pounding corporate profit margins and weighing on outlooks. So far this earnings season, on balance that hasn’t happened and stock prices have been fast to jump on the less dire narrative, pros say.  “Investor sentiment had… Source link

By Krystal Hu and Anirban Sen (Reuters) – Donald Trump has united some of his supporters and detractors in buying shares in his new company and hoping to score a big win. Anthony Nguyen, a 49-year-old software consultant from Austin, Texas, is a Republican who refused to vote for the former U.S. president in last year’s election. Last week he joined the millions of online day traders who drove up the value of the company that will house Trump’s new social media venture to almost $12 billion…. Source link

China’s property bubble just got pricked — this could mean trouble for the stock market New home prices in China slid 0.8% in September. It was the country’s first real estate decline in six years, triggered largely by the Evergrande fiasco. Residential sales, meanwhile, tumbled 17%. Given China’s massive role in global trade, its problems could easily extend to the U.S. economy and spark something worse than inflation: stagflation. Stagflation refers to an economy that’s experiencing… Source link

Snap’s (SNAP) stock was down more than 23% in early trading Friday morning after its earnings report sharply missed revenue expectations the day before. Why the big miss? CEO Evan Spiegel said Apple’s (AAPL) recent privacy changes to iOS hampered advertisers’ efforts to track their campaigns. “Our advertising business was disrupted by changes to iOS ad tracking that were broadly rolled out by Apple in June and July,” Spiegel said during the company’s earnings call. “We have… Source link

Stock futures opened lower Thursday evening as investors took in another batch of earnings results and more data on the pace of the economy recovery. Contracts on the S&P 500 edged lower by about 0.3% as the overnight session kicked off. The blue-chip index had hit record intraday and closing highs during the trading day on Thursday. Dow and Nasdaq futures also moved lower.  Snap (SNAP) shares sank more than 20% in late trading after missing third-quarter revenues and offering weak… Source link

Tesla’s (TSLA) record profits for the fourth quarter are sending shares toward record highs. The next catalyst to take the stock up could be the electric vehicle giant’s autonomous program, Oppenheimer analyst Colin Rusch told Yahoo Finance Live. “Valuation is pretty substantial for the company, and it’s really predicated in our view, around their ability to deliver on the autonomous program,” he said. “We think the EV program where they’ve done a tremendous job and are continuing to make… Source link

Investors are chowing down on shares of newly minted publicly traded hot dog chain Portillo’s.  Shares of Portillo’s (PTLO) — a Chicago-founded outfit with a cult-like following across nine states — exploded more than 50% as investors ate up the stock on its first day of trading on Thursday.  “While we are a 58-year-old company, we are still infants when it comes to our growth inflection point,” Portillo’s CEO Michael Osanloo said on Yahoo Finance Live. Osanloo isn’t kidding when he said… Source link

Stock futures edged lower Wednesday evening, with the major indexes hovering slightly below all-time highs as a parade of strong earnings results helped buoy equity prices. Contracts on the Dow dipped. The 30-stock index set a fresh record intraday high during the regular trading day, markings its first all-time high since mid-August. The S&P 500 also logged a sixth straight day of gains in its longest winning streak since the start of July. The Nasdaq ended lower as traders took profits on… Source link

The valuation on Facebook’s stock (FB) looks way out of whack with the social media giant’s continued digital dominance, argues long-time bull Brent Thill at Jefferies.  “Interestingly, Facebook is now the second cheapest stock in our large cap coverage (eBay is cheapest) and trades at a 30% discount to the Nasdaq (vs. two-year average 18% discount). In our view, Facebook’s valuation is among the most attractive in Internet, particularly on a growth adjusted basis,” Thill said in a new… Source link

Ford’s stock (F) is poised to shift into overdrive if a fresh call-out from Credit Suisse is any indication.  “When we downgraded Ford early last year, our concern was that Ford was struggling in balancing the “two clocks” — near-term execution issues would ultimately limit Ford’s ability to adequately prepare for the long-term transition of the auto industry. Yet in the past year plus, we’ve seen a significant turnaround underway at Ford — it has ended its cycle of quarterly… Source link