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While the rest of the market is getting hammered by the Iran conflict, one corner of Wall Street is throwing a party. Defense stocks are surging — and the numbers suggest this trade has a lot more room to run. Palantir (PLTR) spiked roughly 4% at Monday's open, hitting $143 a share as traders piled into what's become the quintessential "war trade." But Palantir isn't alone. Northrop Grumman (NOC) and RTX both jumped about 4%, while Lockheed Martin (LMT) climbed 3% ...
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Picture this: You wake up Monday morning, check your portfolio, and see Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) jumping 2.5% in premarket trading. Goldman Sachs just slapped a "buy" rating on it with an $80 price target – that's 20% upside from current levels. You're feeling pretty good about life. Then reality hits like a poorly-timed slot machine. By afternoon, the stock is down 1%, sitting around $66.50. What happened? Well, turns out CEO Robert Goldstein decided this was the perfect time to ...
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So everyone's freaking out about AI stealing their jobs, right? Your LinkedIn feed is probably full of people either declaring themselves "AI-powered professionals" or updating their resumes in panic. But here's the thing: Andrew Slimmon from Morgan Stanley Investment Management is basically shrugging at all the hysteria. While the rest of us are doom-scrolling through articles about robot overlords, this guy is out here saying "been there, done that" – except he's talking about the dot-com era. Remember when everyone thought ...
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So NVIDIA just dropped their earnings report, and it was basically the corporate equivalent of LeBron dunking on someone in the playoffs. Revenue up 73%. Beat expectations on literally everything. Guided higher for next quarter. And yet... the stock fell 4%. If you're scratching your head wondering how a company can absolutely demolish Wall Street's expectations and still get punished by the market, welcome to 2026, where even excellence isn't good enough anymore. The Numbers Were Ridiculous (In a Good Way) Let's start with ...
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So, the Middle East is having another one of those weekends, and Wall Street is doing what it does best: panicking first, asking questions later. The US and Israel decided to give Iran some unwanted attention over the weekend, and now everyone's scrambling to figure out who wins and who loses when the world gets a little more chaotic. Here's the thing about geopolitical drama: it's like a really expensive game of musical chairs, except the music is explosions and the ...
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Well, this escalated quickly. While you were probably enjoying your weekend, Iran decided to remind everyone why geopolitics and oil prices go together like peanut butter and market volatility. Here's the deal: The US and Israel launched attacks on Iran over the weekend, and now Iran is reportedly moving to close the Strait of Hormuz. If you're thinking "What's the big deal with some random strait?" – buckle up, because this little waterway is basically the world's energy highway. The Strait of ...
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Something unusual is happening in tech. The very companies that were supposed to ride the AI wave to infinity — the software-as-a-service names that minted millionaires over the past decade — are getting absolutely hammered. And the weapon doing the damage? AI itself. Salesforce is down 32.7% in 2026 alone, and 42.1% over the past twelve months. The fear is straightforward: if businesses can throw a few prompts into an AI chatbot and build their own CRM alternative at minimal cost, ...
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This week is the final exam for the American consumer — and the retail stocks that live or die by their wallets. Target, Best Buy, and Costco all report earnings over the next five days, and the results will tell us whether the "consumer resilience" narrative has any legs left or whether tariff headwinds and cumulative inflation have finally broken the shopper. Target kicks things off Tuesday morning, and it's a big one. This is the first full earnings report under ...
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