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Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage of The TJX Companies (TJX) at Neutral and set a price target of $139, according to a TradingView/Benzinga item published at 12:53 UTC on Tuesday, November 10. The target is…
Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude AI assistant, set a price range of $70 to $78 per share for its initial public offering on Tuesday, November 10. At the midpoint, the offering would raise about $61 billion;…
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said at a conference in London on Tuesday that he would support raising interest rates by 25 basis points in December. "However, if inflation comes in substantially higher…
October CPI released Tuesday Nov 10 at 8:30 AM ET (BLS schedule confirmed). Consensus (Dow Jones survey, firmed Monday; Bloomberg survey agrees): headline +0.3% m/m, core +0.2% m/m — a clear cooldown from September's…
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher on Monday, November 9, snapping back from last week's AI-driven rout. The S&P 500 rose 2.35%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.15% (about 1,100 points), and the Nasdaq 100…
Weekly Market Brief · November 5, 2026
Wall Street suffered a brutal reversal Thursday, erasing Wednesday's post-midterm rally: the Dow shed 1,833.06 points (-3.44%) to 51,523.06, the S&P 500 fell 4.36% to 7,353.73, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.52% to 24,315.00 — closing in correction territory more than 10% below its Oct. 6 record, its worst day since the April 2025 tariff tantrum.
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Democrats control Congress but not the veto. We sorted 127 stocks by how far budgets, investigations and blocking power actually reach them, charted the tailwind stocks, and looked at what history says about a Democratic Congress with a Republican President.
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98 years of yearly returns for the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow, charted on an even scale: who won, what it cost, the lost decades, and the years one index ran away with it.
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Four simple, hard-to-follow principles for balancing risk and reward: sell winners before greed wins, don't sit on losers forever, keep asking what's next, and think in…
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Democrats won Congress and the AI trade split in two. Power, permits and equipment now set the timeline. What it means for Dell's record backlog, NVIDIA, the…
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Extra money each month: put it on the mortgage or invest it? A beginner-friendly guide with a real example, the one number that decides most of it, how inflation helps…
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NVIDIA still owns most of the AI chip market, but Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are building their own chips for inference. Where the money is moving in 2026 and…
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A 20% drop needs a 25% gain to recover, and a 50% drop needs 100%. Why the math of losing is harsher than the math of winning, and why taking money off the table…
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$1,000 invested at birth can grow to about $149,000 by 65. How custodial accounts work, how to legitimately pay your child so they can fund a Roth IRA, and the rules,…
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Everyone knows the story of the California Gold Rush. The people who made the most consistent fortunes weren’t the prospectors panning for gold in the river; it was the…
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Everyone loves to talk about bubbles. It is the favorite pastime of financial pundits, Twitter gurus, and your cautious uncle at Thanksgiving. Right now, the target is…
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If you have ever looked at the stock market and felt like it was a chaotic, rigged game working specifically against you, your instincts aren’t entirely wrong. You…
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The golden handcuffs refer to the phenomenon where high-paying jobs or lucrative career opportunities become a hindrance to achieving financial independence. While…
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Wall Street suffers a brutal post-election reversal as the A-I trade unwinds and the Nasdaq enters correction territory. We break down the trillion-dollar wipeout in big…
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