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Luxury stocks' volatility highlights AI jitters, hedge fund positioning
As luxury companies like LVMH and Gucci-owner Kering struggle to recover from a two-year slowdown, they are navigating increasingly sharp share price swings stoked by hedge fund bets and investor nerves over AI-rattled markets.
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China Markets Set for Post New Year Upside on Trade Optimism
China stocks outlook turns bullish as SSE and Hang Seng target breakouts, driven by AI gains, export strength, and PBOC easing bets despite housing risks.
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U.S. stock futures flat as investors digest ongoing tech selloff over holiday weekend
U.S. stock futures were little changed late Monday, following another brutal week for tech stocks.
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Opinion | States Encroach on Prediction Markets
The CFTC, the legitimate regulator of these financial instruments, backs Crypto.com in a lawsuit appeal.
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AI Turns From Friend To Foe - Will AI Kill The Bull Market?
Last week, fears of AI damaging long-standing business models expanded into wealth management, logistics stocks, and financial stocks, and there were plenty of dire predictions. Wall Street doesn't like uncertainty that points to multiple compression in certain sectors.
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Shipping Stocks Are Moving Again — And Nobody Is Watching
Shipping stocks are quietly staging a comeback — and the underlying supply-demand setup suggests this cycle may have staying power. The Baltic Dry Index, a key benchmark for global shipping rates, has risen more than 60% from its 2023 lows, according to Baltic Exchange data, signaling a significant recovery in global shipping demand.
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Small Caps Are Finally Waking Up — And It's Sending A Big Macro Signal
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Energy Stocks Are Printing Cash — So Why Are They Still Cheap?
Energy companies are generating some of the strongest cash flows in the market — yet their valuations still reflect recession-level pessimism.
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Cocoa stocks from main harvest pile up in Ivory Coast warehouses
Unsold bags of cocoa beans are stacked almost to the ceiling in Sekou Dagnogo's warehouse in Ivory Coast's western Duekoue town, where his cooperative is struggling to sell to exporters following a fall in global cocoa prices.
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Kevin Warsh is a young Jerome Powell
"My only concern is that Jay Powell was just as resolute as Warsh when he first started in 2018, and he was forced to back down in the face of great market turbulence
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Market Sector Review: Extreme Market Bifurcation
Since today is “Presidents' Day” and the markets are closed, we will go through a technical review of each S&P 500 market sector. Basic Materials broke through previous resistance and is now 3 standard deviations above the moving average.
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The AI Selloff Has Covid Parallels, Say Analysts. These Sectors Can Survive.
It's not just U.S. investors getting jittery about the impact of artificial intelligence on stocks.
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Opinion | Americans Feel the Weight of Trump's Tariffs
Readers discuss how the president's trade policies affect them.
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Opinion | To Lower Prices, Lift Supply
Republicans promote too many populist policies when they should focus on supply-side economics.
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Mega Cap 8 Declining As Top Performers Emerge In Major Value Rotation
Rotation from growth to value is underway, with value and dividend portfolios strongly outperforming the S&P 500 and Nasdaq into 2026. Negative momentum signals persist for the S&P 500 and Technology sector, with Mega Cap-8 stocks under pressure and growth leadership breaking down.
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It's Economic Data Vs. AI Fears for Stocks This Week.
Stocks may well take their cue from economic data this week but there's a dangerous wildcard lurking–AI disruption fears.
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Risk Assets: Navigating The Crosscurrents
While dynamic, the overriding macro backdrop continues to feel constructive, and in aggregate, global equity markets have posted strong gains so far in 2026. Crosscurrents often show up as rotation rather than outright risk-off moves.
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These Asian markets have been ‘bangers' this year. Here's why they have further to rally, says Goldman Sachs
South Korea and Japan have left Wall Street in the dust in 2026
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U.S. Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Busy Week
GDP and inflation data are due in the coming days, while Walmart will be in focus in another batch of blue-chip earnings.
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The AI Market Crash Is Just Getting Started
We warned that AI would hit software stocks, and many are now down 30 to 80%. But software is just the beginning as AI starts breaking moats across law, healthcare, retail, and more.
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