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This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: RBC Capital’s Lori Calvasina became the latest strategist to raise her 2024 price target for the S&P 500 on Monday, lifting her forecast to 5,150 from 5,000. But by raising expectations for the benchmark index this year, Calvasina actually offered a more tempered outlook for stocks than what her team set forth in November 2023. “When we introduced our 5,000 target back in… 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 Friday, December 9, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Wall Street strategists are looking ahead to 2023. And like most years, this year’s outlooks contain a degree of similarity… Source link

By Rodrigo Campos and Ira Iosebashvili (Reuters) – A stronger-than-expected showing by Democrats in the U.S. midterm elections may force investors to rethink the split government scenario many had expected. Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate, extinguishing hopes of the “red wave” that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections. Republicans remain close to seizing control of the House of Representatives as officials continued counting ballots, with results expected… Source link

There’s a renewed bullish fever in Netflix (NFLX) stock following a better-than-feared third quarter and outlook as well as optimism around a major profit boost from the soon-to-launch ad-supported network. Netflix stock has surged 51% in the past six months, blowing away the 7% drop for the S&P 500. That fiery advance coupled with new fundamental drivers won over Wall Street’s biggest Netflix bear on Wednesday: Pivotal Research Analyst Jeff Wlodarczak. Wlodarczak aggressively hiked his… Source link

This post was originally published on TKer.co Stocks surged 5.7% on Monday and Tuesday and then shed almost all of those gains on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. When it was all said and done, the S&P 500 closed at 3,639.66, up a modest 1.5% from its Sept. 30 close of 3,585.62, which was the lowest closing price of 2022. The index is now down 24.1% from its January 3 closing high of 4,796.56. There’s a lot to be said about what’s moving markets. (You can begin to understand what’s going… Source link

Late hours on Wall Street are part of industry lore, but in a post-pandemic world, banks are still hashing out official return-to-office policies. Earlier this week, moves by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lift COVID protocols at their offices drew attention to the ambiguity around official RTO rules across financial institutions. While messaging from the companies was shy of mandating a five-day-per-week return, lifting vaccine and testing requirements appears to be part of a broader… Source link

Jeremy Grantham is among Wall Street’s most respected investors. The cofounder of Boston asset manager GMO is well known for having predicted Japan’s asset price bubble in the 1980s, the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s, and even the U.S. housing blowup that came before the 2008 financial crisis. Now the 83-year-old Wall Street veteran is arguing that despite the stock market’s struggles this year, the economy’s real downturn has yet to come. Grantham has been warning of a brewing “ Source link

Earlier this week, Microsoft laid off 200 employees from R&D projects, taking the toll to 1,800 since July. Now, another big tech company Google is reportedly warning its… Source link

As Big Tech companies begin to lay off employees in the global economic downturn, Google executives have reportedly warned workers to either boost performance or prepare to leave as “there will be blood on the streets” if the next quarterly earnings are not good. In a company message viewed by Insider, Google Cloud sales leadership has threatened employees with… Source link

Britta Pedersen/Getty Images; Twitter; Rachel Mendelson/Insider Elon Musk’s decision to kill the $44 billion Twitter deal means banks could lose a “nine-figure” payday. Musk’s and Twitter’s financial advisors could pocket up to $192 million if the deal closes. The billionaire faces an uphill battle to call off the deal as he has to prove there’s been a material adverse effect on the transaction. Elon Musk’s ‘will-he-won’t-he’ dance to buy Twitter took a turn on Friday after the billionaire said… Source link