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Tech Keeps Beating Estimates as Lockdown Drives Growth: Earnings This Week

Tech Keeps Beating Estimates as Lockdown Drives Growth: Earnings This Week

Technology stocks continue to lead a small group of companies doing well amid the coronavirus lockdown. Cisco Systems (CSCO), Square (SQ), Logitech (LOGI) and Datadog (DDOG) all reported strong quarterly results over the last week. Several are direct beneficiaries of...

Worried About a Pullback? Here Are Three Go-To Options Strategies

Worried About a Pullback? Here Are Three Go-To Options Strategies

Sentiment has turned more negative this week as investors worry the economy will keep struggling with coronavirus. Let's consider some ways to protect your investments with options. Managing Risk with Collars The first strategy is known as a collar. Say you purchased...

Why Interest Rates and Treasury Bonds Could Be the Next Big Things to Watch

Why Interest Rates and Treasury Bonds Could Be the Next Big Things to Watch

Interest rates crashed to record lows because of coronavirus. But will they stay there? The U.S. Treasury Department is preparing to flood the market with new bonds as it pays for trillions of dollars in stimulus. Several economic reports this week could also have an...

Stocks Rally on Strong Breadth, Hopes for Lockdown Ending

Stocks Rally on Strong Breadth, Hopes for Lockdown Ending

Stocks rallied last week on signs of the coronavirus crisis winding down. The S&P 500 began on a weak footing but held a key level from last summer. The index then turned higher and ended up 3.5 percent, its first positive week in the last three. More than...

COVID-19 Losers Become Winners

COVID-19 Losers Become Winners

The price action in the major U.S. indexes in the last couple of weeks is a perfect illustration of how the stock market tends to constantly discount the future. Coronavirus headlines have hijacked almost all the nation’s news headlines, unemployment claims have seen...

Apple, Tesla and the Economy Starts to Reopen: This Week Has It All

Apple, Tesla and the Economy Starts to Reopen: This Week Has It All

The stock market is entering one of its most important weeks in years, with the S&P 500 parked at a key level. Traders may be watching for a breakout. Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon.com (AMZN) -- the three trillion-dollar companies -- report earnings....