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American Airlines Shows Rising Relative Strength; Is Air Travel Back?
On Wednesday, American Airlines (AAL) cleared a noteworthy technical benchmark, seeing its Relative Strength (RS) Rating jump into the 80-plus…
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Composite Rating For Power REIT Jumps To 97, As Market Shift Continues
On Wednesday, Power REIT (PW) got an upgrade for its IBD SmartSelect Composite Rating from 94 to 97. X The…
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Commodities Trading: Gold Stocks, Oil Stocks, Silver, Natural Gas
Commodities are not simply essential products for modern living. Information and news on the commodity market and commodity trading can…
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Dow Rallies After Biden Vaccine Pledge Even As Bond Yields Rise; Boeing Stock Flies
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied, even as other indexes fell, after President Joe Biden promised the U.S. will have…
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Top-Ranked Select Medical’s Stock Soars On Strong Profit Growth; Key Rating Bumped Up
Hospital operator Select Medical’s stock has jumped 27% in less than a week after it reported outstanding fourth quarter earnings…
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Ford Stock: Will Ford Options Shoot Higher Like Rocket Stock?
It looks as if the Reddit/wallstreetbets crowd is at it again. In Tuesday’s column, we mentioned the unusual option volume…
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Carnival Sees Improved Relative Strength Rating To 72
Carnival (CCL) had its Relative Strength (RS) Rating upgraded from 65 to 72 Wednesday — a welcome improvement, but still…
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Century Aluminum Sees Relative Strength Rating Rise To 91
Century Aluminum (CENX) saw a positive improvement to its Relative Strength (RS) Rating on Tuesday, with an increase from 88…
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Covid Test Firm Labcorp Joins Elite List Of Stocks With 95-Plus Composite Rating
Top-ranked Labcorp, a leader in Covid-19 testing including for the emerging South Africa and U.K. variants, got a key rating…
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Dow Jones Reverses Lower As Nasdaq Leads Sell-Off; These Stocks Fall On Earnings
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed lower in today’s stock market after paring earlier gains. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and…
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IBD Stock Of The Day: FBC Stock Flashes Buy Signal As Flagstar Bancorp Boasts Rapid Growth
Flagstar Bancorp Inc Flagstar Bancorp Inc FBC $1.33 2.98% 77% IBD Stock Analysis Moving toward official 48.02 buy point Rebound…
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Snowflake Stock Falls As April Quarter Product Revenue Guidance Edges By Views
Snowflake stock fell after the software maker reported a narrower loss for the January quarter from a year earlier as…
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Xperi Strengthens In Key Performance Metrics
Xperi (XPER) saw its IBD SmartSelect Composite Rating rise to 96 Wednesday, up from 93 the day before. X The…
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QA Summary For March Leaderboard Scorecard Webinar, March 2, 2021
Hi… LeaderBoard Team 🙂 Good Afternoon Besides Chris, who’s been to Winslow, AZ? Not I! But I am curious now.…
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Okta Stock Tumbles On $6.5 Billion Acquisition Of Auth0 As Earnings Beat
Okta stock plunged Wednesday after the company announced the acquisition of Auth0 in a $6.5 billion deal. The cybersecurity firm…
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Middleby Cooks Up RS Rating Jump To 82
The Relative Strength (RS) Rating for Middleby (MIDD) climbed into a new percentile Wednesday, with an increase from 79 to…
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Credit unions expect hybrid work model after COVID ends
The hybrid workplace model that many companies implemented last year as the pandemic spread could be here for the long…
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Shore Bancshares to enter new Maryland market with Severn acquisition
Shore Bancshares in Easton, Md., has agreed to buy Severn Bancorp in Annapolis, Md. The $1.9 billion-asset Shore said in…
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Dow Jones Futures: Why The Market Rally Is Only ‘Mostly Dead’; Boeing Leads As Amazon, Zoom Break Long-Term Support
Dow Jones futures were little changed Wednesday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The Dow Jones fell modestly…
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CFPB officially proposes delay of QM changes
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made official the agency’s plans to delay the compliance deadline for changes to its main…
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Vroom Fourth-Quarter Revenue Tops Estimates, Earnings Fall Short
Vroom (VRM) reported fourth-quarter results late Wednesday that beat revenue estimates but fell short on earnings. Vroom stock plunged. X…
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Challenger bank helps customers erase carbon footprints
The challenger bank Aspiration has an ambitious goal: help consumers neutralize their carbon footprint. The Marina del Rey, Calif., fintech…
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Chipmaker Marvell Technology Hits Q4 Earnings Target, Beats On Sales
Chipmaker Marvell Technology (MRVL) late Wednesday matched Wall Street’s target for earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter and beat views…
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Fed digital currency gains steam with Democrats in power
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the Biden administration and Congress are raising the volume on proposals for the Federal Reserve…
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Does Jump In Carnival Stock Make It A Buy Right Now? Here’s What Earnings, Charts Show
America is getting vaccinated against Covid-19. And cruise line Carnival (CCL) is sounding its ships’ horns to signal its vessels…
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Fed’s Beige Book shows businesses optimistic on vaccine take-up
The U.S. economy expanded modestly in the first two months of the year and sentiment among business owners is picking…
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IBD Live Q&A And Two Key Stock Lists For March 3, 2021
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Former FDA chief urges rethinking COVID risk metrics
Ongoing vaccinations against COVID-19 are likely to bring the nation back to some level of normalcy by mid-year, said Dr.…
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Ford Mustang Mach-E Grabs EV Share From Tesla
Ford (F) delivered record February EV sales in the first full month of sales for the Mustang Mach-E electric crossover,…
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Dow Jones Rallies Despite Jobs Data As Boeing Soars; Bears Swipe Growth Stocks
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than 100 points in afternoon trading Wednesday, thanks to big gains from…
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Oil Prices Rise Ahead Of OPEC+ Meeting As Current Cuts Could Be Extended
Oil prices climbed Wednesday on a report that OPEC+ could vote to continue its current output cuts for another month…
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IBD 50 Stocks To Watch: T. Rowe Price In Buy Range As It Beats The Market Twice
T. Rowe Price (TROW), featured in today’s IBD 50 Stocks To Watch, is trading at record highs and in buy…
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Investor group buys CalFirst to prepare for more acquisitions
An investor group has acquired California First National Bank in Irvine. DMG Bancshares, which is run by veteran banker Don…
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Banks lobby Congress to postpone PPP deadline
Lenders are pressing Congress to extend the Paycheck Protection Program’s end date, citing rules that have yet to be issued…
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Vir Stock Craters On Weak Data For GSK-Partnered Covid Treatment
Emerging data cast doubt on the effectiveness of Vir Biotechnology (VIR) and GlaxoSmithKline‘s (GSK) coronavirus treatment, leading Vir stock to…
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The national debt is big and getting bigger. Does it matter?
WASHINGTON — The United States’ national debt is nestled in a brick-laden underpass just a block away from Times Square.…
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Starbucks Stock Reported Mixed Earnings Results, Is It A Buy Right Now?
Seattle-based Starbucks (SBUX) emerged as a coffeehouse giant in the 1990s with a meteoric rise, evolving from a local concept…
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Thrivent hires former MUFG Union executive to run proposed bank
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has recruited two high-profile bankers to run the bank it is looking to form. The company…
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Las Vegas Sands Is Leaving Las Vegas As It Sells U.S. Properties For $6.25 Billion
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) announced Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its Las Vegas properties for about $6.25 billion…
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Warren Buffett Stocks: LULU, Veeva, Logitech Among 12 Stocks On This Screen
Which companies qualify as potential Warren Buffett stocks? Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Veeva Systems (VEEV) and Logitech International (LOGI) are among…
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Dow Falls Despite Biden Vaccine Pledge Amid Weak Jobs Data; Boeing Flies; Bitcoin Surges
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was lower as stocks fell despite President Joe Biden’s promise that the U.S. will have…
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Citi’s $900 million mistake prompts banks to seek new safeguards
Wall Street banks are seeking new legal protections to help avoid a repeat of Citigroup’s accidental $900 million payment to…
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NCUA swaps out spots on NeighborWorks America board
Rodney Hood, a board member at the National Credit Union Administration and a former chairman of the agency, has been…
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15 Companies Stockpile $1 Trillion In Cash (And Investors Want It)
Cash is piling up fast on S&P 500 companies’ books — and investors want their share. X Just 15 non-financial…
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Dow Jones Futures Cut Gains As Jobs Data Disappoints; Bitcoin Surges, Tesla Set To Rebound
Dow Jones futures, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures, were mixed Wednesday, as Bitcoin surged above $52,000.…
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NCUA’s Harper says exam audits merit new consumer protection programs
Todd Harper, the chairman of the National Credit Union Administration, on Tuesday reiterated his call for the regulator to do…
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Who Joins Crocs, PayPal, InMode On List Of Breakout Growth Stocks?
What do leading growth stocks PayPal (PYPL), Crocs (CROX), Logitech (LOGI), InMode (INMD), ASML (ASML), Generac (GNRC) and Deere (DE)…
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Chopra’s confirmation hearing; Goldman is back in the bitcoin business
Receiving Wide Coverage … Interview for sheriff’s job Rohit Chopra, President Biden’s pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,…
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Lions Gate Posts Stellar Profit Growth; Clears Key Rating Benchmark
Lions Gate recently inked a couple of deals that could spur growth for the movie and TV production company. On…
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Hope Bancorp Shows Improved Relative Strength; Still Shy Of Benchmark
The Relative Strength (RS) Rating for Hope Bancorp (HOPE) moved up into a new percentile Tuesday, as it got a…
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