Wall Street appears to be grappling with what the mixed August jobs data means exactly for markets. Stocks dropped Friday, with the S & P 500 headed for its worst week in a year after the nonfarm payrolls report came in with both good and bad news. On one hand, the unemployment number eased slightly. On the other, the headline jobs number missed expectations and. Additionally, jobs growth for the previous two months saw significant downward revisions. One thing, however, was made clear to some investors by this latest jobs report: The labor market — and by extension the economy…
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Oppenheimer thinks stocks ranging from an electric vehicle favorite to a solid waste collector could get a a short-term boost depending on which party dominates this year’s presidential election in November. “As the 2024 election draws nearer, we expect the outcome of the presidential and Congressional races to impact several key issues affecting our covered companies,” Oppenheimer analysts led by Colin Rusch said in a Thursday note to clients. “We expect stocks’ behavior over the medium-term will more likely be a function of secular trends impacting global demand, and would encourage investors to be opportunistic around short-term sentiment.” Oppenheimer said…
Wall Street is under pressure this week, but the selling in some individual names may have gone too far. The benchmark S & P 500 is on pace for its worst weekly performance in more than a year, losing more than 4%. Technology stocks were noticeably weak as investors pared exposure to the sector, pulling down the Nasdaq Composite more than 2%. A sluggish August jobs report also weighed on an already jumpy market susceptible to any sign of an economic growth slowdown. Some stocks may be due for a short-term bounce. Using the CNBC Pro Stock Screener , we…
Weak jobs data was the last critical data point for the Fed and it did not solidify if they cut by a quarter or half point less than two weeks at their September meeting. But it did reinforce a weakening economy. With the tech sector continuing to see profit taking, I want to establish a short-term bearish view and utilize the very popular QQQ ETF which tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index. QQQ .SPX YTD mountain Invesco QQQ Trust vs. SPDR S & P 500 ETF, YTD Market sentiment continues to shift after a tumultuous August and an already volatile start…
The NFL kicks off its first ever game in South America on Friday night, as the league pushes to grow its footprint overseas.As the NFL enters the Southern Hemisphere, professional football has never been stronger financially. Last season, the league pulled in $13 billion in revenue, and the average team is worth about $6.5 billion, according to CNBC’s Official NFL Team Valuations.But as the league tries to sustain its growth, international markets are a priority.Ahead of the league’s inaugural game in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” the league aims to become an…
Goldman Sachs said investors shouldn’t pull the plug on Broadcom after its latest earnings report. Analyst Toshiya Hari reiterated a buy rating on the semiconductor and infrastructure software supplier on Friday. Hari’s $190 price target implies shares can rally 24% from Thursday’s closing level. Hari’s call comes one day after Broadcom posted fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates for both revenue and earnings. But Broadcom also said revenue in the current quarter should come in at about $14 billion, a touch below the consensus estimate of $14.11 billion, based on analysts polled by FactSet. The Goldman analyst also noted…
The early September pullback has made lots of stocks attractive. Savita Subramanian thinks investors need to be cautious, however. “The name of the game is don’t be a hero,” Bank of America’s head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy, told CNBC’s ” Squawk Box ” on Friday. “Park in safe, total-return type vehicles where you get paid to wait.” Subramanian mentioned utilities and real estate as sectors that can help investors navigate this tough market. The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLRE) and Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU) are each up more than 5% in the past month.…
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Zero-for-three for the S&PStocks saw more losses on Thursday, with the S&P 500 suffering its third straight session of the month in the red. The broad market index fell 0.3% to close out the session at 5,503.41. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also suffered losses, sliding 0.54% to finish at 40,755.75. Unlike those two major averages, the Nasdaq Composite ended the session with gains. The tech-heavy index rose 0.25% to finish at 17,127.66, even moving as high as 1.2% earlier in the session. Arun Sai, senior…
Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe boss of messaging platform Telegram said late Thursday that charges against him by France are “misguided,” in his first public comments since being detained in the country nearly two weeks ago.Pavel Durov, who founded Telegram in 2013, was last week charged with enabling criminal activity on the messaging app — including dissemination of child pornography, drug trafficking, and fraud, and refusal to share information with authorities.One of the charges — complicity in the administration…
The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London.Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty ImagesLONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google’s ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K.In a statement, the Competition and Markets Authority alleged that the U.S. internet search titan “has harmed competition by using its dominance in online display advertising to favour its own ad tech services.”The “vast majority” of the U.K.’s thousands of publishers and advertisers use Google’s technology in order to bid for and sell space to display ads, the…