One of the big reasons for the stock market gains this year has been the continued strength of megacap tech names. Allspring senior equity portfolio managerThere's the closing bell on Wall Street.We're joined by Jared to get up to speed on the action from today's session.
Uh But given the end of the day dynamic dynamics and also the fact that you can have volatility rising on the way up.Now, here's the move index, I'm going to put a year to date chart and this is a little bit different than the VIX. I also want to check out our leaders and we can see uh the SOS so that would be the Philly Chip index that is a big leader of the day, but close behind it, we have home builders and regional banks gearing up for uh big banks which kick off earning season this Friday.Here's software and we can see actually about half to 3/5 of these uh were read on the day and then you compare that with semiconductors.
Well, the problem is, I don't know of another area to redeploy that has such a, a relatively clear sustainable growth path to continue to have higher earnings in other sectors.Uh, they've been fabulous names and I think they'll continue to be very, very good names.They have that, that type of growth and many of those stocks also have dividends.
I think as the fed changes rates, it'll be by a quarter of a point that really isn't fundamentally going to change the economic outlook or the outlook.
The FTC plans to file lawsuits taking aim at the business practices related to rebates, brokered with drug manufacturers.This has been going on for a little while here and it looks like it's taking the next step. So that just shows that despite the fact that there was competition on the market, it didn't do much to budge Avi's leads.
If you talk to drug makers, they will blame it on these pbms saying that in order for them to include a rebate, they have to inflate the prices. However, that started to change at the end of last year and coming into this year, uh based on S and P global, visible out a consensus, we're expecting 6.3% operating profit margin.And you know, revenues just aren't staying still either.So that would mean that Amazon is generating about 10% top line growth in their North America retail business year on year.
So it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out and if the A I laptop boom could ultimately uh be a real catalyst.And I'm curious what you're seeing in your research because it feels like like the A I stuff right now is a push, right?It's a push from hardware and software companies and it doesn't feel like um, consumers quite know what to do with it yet or how it's gonna integrate into their daily lives.
Economists forecast overall CP I to tick up, uh 0.1% CP I steady at 0.2% and moving over to earnings.
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