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How to use relative strength to gauge a market rally and pick winners
Relative strength is a technical way to compare two assets' performance. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre examines whether the bull market rally is broadening by comparing the S&P 500 (^GSPC) to the equal-weighted index.
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Crypto Corner: BTC Underperforms Silver & Gold, BTGO IPO's Wall Street Significance
@CharlesSchwab's Adam Lynch returns to Crypto Corner and analyzes the latest moves in Bitcoin, which has sharply underperformed silver and gold. He explains why bitcoin and crypto as a whole struggled despite having similar trading properties to metals.
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What's the Best Way to Buy Gold in 2026?
Many of the themes that pushed stocks higher in 2025 are back in focus to begin 2026. One of those is the bull market for precious metals.
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Above The Noise: Look Beyond Distracting Headlines
Markets are broadening despite the incessant noise from ongoing geopolitical maneuvering and Fed independence. We maintain our view that investors will gradually diversify away from US assets, suggesting continued US dollar weakness.
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Trump threatens to impose 100% tariff if Canada makes deal with China
President Donald Trump warned Canada that the U.S. would impose 100% tariff if Prime Minister Mark Carney made a trade deal with China. Trump suggested that China would try to use Canada to try to avoid paying U.S. tariffs.
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Why European Wine Could Get Pricier Under New US Tariffs
President Trump has once again threatened tariffs of up to 200 percent on French wine, putting pressure on an industry that relies heavily on imports. Wine importer Victor Schwartz, US Wine Trade Alliance president Ben Aneff, and California grape grower Stuart Spencer explain how tariffs could raise prices, reduce choice, hurt restaurants and distributors, and reshape both foreign and domestic wine markets.
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These 5 tech stocks could be big winners this earnings season
Beyond the “Magnificent Seven” names, Wall Street analysts see opportunities in software and specialized semiconductor plays.
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Benzinga's 'Stock Whisper' Index: 5 Stocks Investors Secretly Monitor But Don't Talk About Yet
Each week, Benzinga's Stock Whisper Index uses a combination of proprietary data and pattern recognition to showcase five stocks that are just under the surface and deserve attention.
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Did everyone forget about DeepSeek? What Wall Street is getting wrong about Chinese AI.
Shares of U.S. hyperscalers seem to have put DeepSeek in the rearview mirror. But if you look closely, a different story emerges.
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These 4 charts capture the whirlwind action in global markets so far this year
Investors are facing tumult in Japan's bond market, a big rally in small-cap stocks, and surging prices for natural gas, gold and silver. And the year has only just begun.
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Investors came to Davos for AI. They left talking about Greenland
Panels and private meetings were packed with talk of AI moving from hype to production, from data centers to energy demand. Trump's Greenland remarks changed the mood overnight, while Musk's AI vision snapped it back the next day.
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Bank Margins, Earnings Set To Expand, Possibly Defy Credit Concerns
US bank earnings have continued to grow as strong margin expansion and benign credit quality supported performance. Banks will continue to benefit from the remixing of their balance sheets as funding costs decline, while lower-yielding assets purchased or originated when rates were low, mature and are reinvested at higher yields.
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Record Amount Of Utility Rate Requests In 2025 Amid Affordability Concerns
Another year of record utility rate requests was established in 2025. Rate requests in 2025 were again dominated by electric utilities, which requested $18.23 billion in aggregate rate increases, while gas utilities requested $3.83 billion.
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Supreme Court may leave big questions unresolved on Trump bid to fire Fed's Lisa Cook
U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to grant President Donald Trump's request to let him immediately remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. But their eventual ruling following this week's arguments in the case may not give Cook a sweeping victory.
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Markets Weekly Outlook: Get Ready For An Agitated FOMC Week
Metals have shone brightly throughout the week, all gapping higher at the weekly open and extending to continuous record highs as the week progressed. Except for Stocks, which have remained resilient throughout the chaos, the US Dollar took a gigantic hit as Trump's latest show was not well received by participants.
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2026 Year-Ahead Outlook: Macro, Equities, Funds, RMBS, CMBS And CLO Insights
Although global risks remain, including geopolitical, outright recession risks in the US and globally appear relatively low in 2026, and compelling evidence of bubbles in credit and equities is hard to find in conventional valuation measures. Equity fundamentals remain supportive, driven by resilient earnings which are expected to broaden outside of Magnificent-7, along profit margins near all-time highs and resilient consumer demand.
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Weekly Commentary: Issues 2026
Three weeks into the new year, markets hint at unbelievable possibilities. The UK's January Composite PMI index surged to a stronger-than-expected - and a 21-month high - 53.9.
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This Week In Markets: Geopolitics, More Selective AI Investment, Steady Macro Backdrop
Escalating, then rapidly de-escalating, U.S.–EU tariff threats tied to Greenland triggered sharp volatility, technical damage, and a swift relief rally across risk assets. Diverging signals from chipmakers, memory suppliers, and enterprise software reinforced that AI remains a secular growth theme, but one defined by supply constraints and widening dispersion.
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Volatility Fades As Markets Refocus On Fundamentals
Markets swing on geopolitical headlines. U.S. labor market shows signs of stability.
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Data Update 2 For 2026: Equities Get Tested And Pass Again
It was a disquieting year, as political and economic news stories shook the foundations of the post-war economic order, built around global trade and the US dollar. In this post, I will focus on US equities, starting with the indices and then deconstructing the data to see the differences in the cross-section.
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