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That is what would occur if equities, despite many cuts this week, rebounded to the median of the S&P 500 estimates from Wall Street banks gathered by MarketWatch, which is 6,400. A Reuters story claims that Bank of America’s target was lowered from a wicked 6,666 to a more modest 5,600, while Oppenheimer’s maximum target of 7,100 was lowered to 5,950. At 7,000, Deutsche Bank currently has the highest target of any Wall Street company. Investors should not take these predictions too literally, cautions Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equities strategy research at RBC Capital Markets, who has lowered her…

President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday, which one analyst referred to as “worse than the worst-case” scenario, sent shockwaves across the technology industry. Daniel Ives of Wedbush noted that Trump’s proposal to impose a 34% tax on Chinese imports was “the jaw dropper” of his address on Wednesday. According to reports, the upcoming levy will be in addition to the 20% tariff that was previously declared. Concerns regarding Apple Inc.’s supply chain caused the company’s shares (AAPL) to be among the most severely impacted in the tech industry during Wednesday’s extended session. After-hours trading on Wednesday saw a 7.1%…

Following President Trump’s announcement of “liberation day” tariffs that were higher than anticipated by markets, U.S. stock futures and the dollar fell sharply on Wednesday. Shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time, amid the cheers of the crowd and the sound of trumpets, President Trump strolled up to the lectern in the Rose Garden of the White House. When Trump announced a 10% universal tariff on all goods entering the U.S., the market’s first response was largely positive, with stock futures rising somewhat and the dollar rising versus competitors like the euro (EURUSD). Prior to the tragedy, some of the more…

The dollar is losing value in spite of Trump’s tariffs. According to SocGen, investors should think about purchasing stock in businesses that conduct a lot of business overseas as a way to safeguard themselves. The U.S. dollar should appreciate versus other currencies as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to popular economic models. To the surprise of the White House and Wall Street, however, the reverse has occurred since Trump’s inauguration. As the U.S. economy grew faster than its peers due to Trump’s pro-growth economic plan, strategists at J.P. Morgan and other major Wall Street businesses had predicted…

The White Plains, New York, Social Security field office is most likely all you could possibly want in a public service government office: Wait times are reasonable, the personnel is friendly, the restrooms are spotless, and there is plenty of free parking. Still, last Wednesday’s atmosphere in the lobby at 297 Knollwood Road was strained in this age of purported government efficiency under the new Trump administration. During a MarketWatch visit, multiple people went by the White Plains office to check if it was open because it appears like things at the Social Security Administration are changing every hour and…

The artificial intelligence-focused data center operator CoreWeave Inc.’s stock continued to rise on Wednesday, illustrating how a number of variables render the recently listed company vulnerable to erratic fluctuations. After closing at $40 on Friday, CoreWeave’s stock (CRWV) is now up 65% after rising 17% on Wednesday. In what was perceived as a disappointing transaction, the Friday close was equal to the company’s IPO price. The key causes of CoreWeave’s volatility, according to Santosh Rao, head of research at Manhattan Venture Partners, are the company’s lower stock float, the possibility of a short squeeze, and conjecture on the potential effects…

Hold on, automobile purchasers. According to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, the range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump will raise the cost of new cars by somewhere between $5,000 and $15,000. Ives’s projection on Wednesday may make already costly cars even more unaffordable for many working Americans at a time when the average cost of new cars is close to $50,000 and auto loan interest rates are high. Trump went into depth about his proposed tariff strategy on Wednesday afternoon. A minimum flat rate of 10% is applied, along with an additional reciprocal charge per nation equal to half…

Corporate insiders are an unexpected source of good stock-market news. Officers and directors of the corporation were more pessimistic as recently as mid-January than they had been in at least ten years. However, insiders accelerated their buying in March, the S&P 500 SPX’s worst-performing month since December 2022, and are now, on average, more positive than their following 10-year average. The chart below, which uses data from InsiderSentiment.com, plots this history. This website is run by Nejat Seyhun, a professor of finance at the University of Michigan and a world authority on analyzing the actions of corporate insiders, along with…

When you open your portfolio and discover that it has declined since you last looked, it is not pleasant. And many investors have probably experienced those negative emotions due to the market’s performance over the last month and a half. 56% of individual investors say that their personal experiences and emotions affect their investment decisions, proving that they are not immune to emotions. 10,000 investors in 12 countries participated in the most recent Retail Investor Beat poll conducted by brokerage eToro (ETOR). Not all of those investors were eToro customers, but 1,000 of them were situated in the United States.…

One for the record books was the Newsmax IPO. The cable TV firm, which was priced at $10 a share, rose as high as $265 before closing its first day of open-market trading at $83.51 and its second day at $233. In its first two days of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the stock (NMAX) was up 2,230% as a result. According to FactSet data, Newsmax’s second-day performance, which saw a 179% spike, was among the best ever for a new listing. However, by the end of Wednesday’s third session of public trading, the stock had dropped 77.5%.…