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MRKT Matrix - Friday, February 28th S&P 500 trades higher Friday following a brief intraday sell-off on Trump-Zelenskyy spat (CNBC) Zelenskyy leaves White House after Ukraine talks collapse (CNBC) Trump’s Tariff Onslaught Is Coming Faster Than His Team Can Carry It Out (WSJ) Fed’s Favored Inflation Gauge Rises at Mild Pace, Spending Falls (Bloomberg) Analysts Making Larger Cuts Than Average to EPS...

MRKT Matrix - Thursday, February 27th S&P 500 falls, continuing February decline, as Trump affirms tariffs coming and Nvidia tumbles (CNBC) Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs will start March 4, plus additional 10% on China (CNBC) Small-Cap Stocks' Gloom Deepens as Executive Sentiment Sours Too (Bloomberg) From Egg Prices to Housing, US Inflation Is Heating Up Again (Bloomberg) US Eggs Hold Steady...

MRKT Matrix - Wednesday, February 26th Nvidia Earnings Release (CNBC) S&P 500 ekes out gain on Wednesday, ending four-day run of losses (CNBC) Fundstrat bull Tom Lee sees stocks rebounding after ‘flesh wound’ pullback (CNBC) The Federal Reserve's favorite recession indicator is flashing a danger sign again (CNBC) GM Boosts Investor Payout With New Buybacks, Dividend Hike (Bloomberg) Bitcoin ETFs A...

MRKT Matrix - Tuesday, February 25th S&P 500 falls for a fourth day after weak consumer confidence data, Nvidia leads Nasdaq lower (CNBC) US Consumer Confidence Drops by Most Since 2021 on Outlook (Bloomberg) Some ‘Trump trades’ are starting to roll over as the stock market sputters (CNBC) More traders turn bullish in first quarter even as market shows signs of fatigue, Schwab survey says (CNBC) T...

MRKT Matrix - Monday, February 24th S&P 500 closes lower Monday as market’s comeback attempt fizzles (CNBC) Apple Will Add 20,000 US Jobs Amid Threat from Trump Tariffs (Bloomberg) Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says (Bloomberg) Anthropic says it’s released its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet as competition ramps up (CNBC) Walmart Wants to Be Something for Everyone in a Divi...

MRKT Matrix - Friday, February 21st Dow tumbles 700 points in worst decline of 2025 so far (CNBC) US Consumers Long-Run Inflation Views Rise to Highest Since 1995 (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen ‘Negative’ on US Economy, Citing Tariffs and DOGE (Bloomberg) Expect more volatility ahead as market navigates shifting political winds, UBS says (CNBC) Bull market could be disrupted by unanticipated economic slo...

MRKT Matrix - Thursday, February 20th Dow tumbles 500 points, S&P 500 retreats from record as Walmart forecast raises concern about earnings (CNBC) Walmart Profit Forecast Falls Short on Slowing Growth (Bloomberg) Palantir gets a buy rating from Loop Capital, which calls for more than 25% upside (CNBC) Bank of America says the S&P 500, expensive by nearly every metric, still has one way to move hi...

MRKT Matrix - Wednesday, February 19th S&P 500 rises to another record, shaking off more tariff fears (CNBC) Trump Floats 25% Tariffs on US Auto, Drug, Chip Imports (Bloomberg) Fed officials are worried about tariffs’ impact on inflation and see rate cuts on hold, minutes show (CNBC) Apple unveils cheaper iPhone 16e powerful enough to run AI (CNBC) Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s New Plan to Sell $1.2 Bi...

MRKT Matrix - Tuesday, February 18th S&P 500 sets fresh record as stocks rally into the close (CNBC) Investors Haven’t Been This Pessimistic About Stocks Since 2023 (WSJ) BofA Survey Shows Investors Haven’t Been This Risk-On Since 2010 (Bloomberg) Fed Wanted an Inclusive Jobs Recovery. Some Are Asking If That Helped Fuel Inflation (Bloomberg) U.S. homebuilders raise alarm over tariffs as sentiment...

MRKT Matrix - Friday, February 14th Stocks are little changed as Wall Street takes a pause after a strong week (CNBC) US Retail Sales Drop by Most in Two Years Amid Fires, Storms (Bloomberg) Corporate America is complaining about ‘currency headwinds.’ What it means for investors (CNBC) Tech stocks return to December ‘scene of the crime’, raising concern of another pullback, BTIG warns (CNBC) Tesla...

MRKT Matrix - Thursday, February 13th Dow jumps as Trump holds off on new tariffs, Nvidia rallies (CNBC) Trump Moves to Impose Reciprocal Tariffs as Soon as April (Bloomberg) Don’t expect a 20% S&P 500 three-peat this year, Wells Fargo says (CNBC) Meta’s AI May Not Be as Good for Ad Growth as Investors Think (The Information) Apple’s Stock-Market Performance Is Increasingly Made in China (Bloomber...

MRKT Matrix - Wednesday, January 12th Dow drops 200 points after hotter-than-expected CPI report (CNBC) Eggs Soar 15% in a Month With US Grocery Shelves Empty (Bloomberg) How Car Insurance Would Help Tariffs Cast a Long Inflation Shadow (WSJ) America’s Most Famous Stock-Market Measure Is More Broken Than Usual (WSJ) Nvidia Shares No Longer Bulletproof as DeepSeek Fears Linger (Bloomberg) China's p...

MRKT Matrix - Tuesday, February 11th S&P 500 is little changed as Powell urges caution on rate cuts, trade tensions escalate (CNBC) Fed Chair Powell says central bank doesn’t ‘need to be in a hurry’ to lower interest rates further (CNBC) The Magnificent 7 Are So Last Year. Cash Cows Are the New Kings. (WSJ) Vance Warns U.S. Allies to Keep AI Regulation Light (WSJ) OpenAI’s Altman Says Musk ‘Probab...

MRKT Matrix - Monday, February 10th Stocks rise, led by tech, as traders look past latest U.S. tariff threat (CNBC) Trump Plans to Impose 25% Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Imports (Bloomberg) China’s Strategy in Trade War: Threaten U.S. Tech Companies (WSJ) Front-Loading Tariffs Undercuts Trump’s Promise of Faster Growth (Bloomberg) For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast (WSJ) Powell...

MRKT Matrix - Friday, February 7th Dow tumbles 400 points on tariff and inflation fears, Nasdaq falls 1% led by Amazon (CNBC) Consumer inflation fears spike in February as tariff worries hit sentiment (CNBC) Trump Says He Will Announce Reciprocal Tariffs Next Week (Bloomberg) S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: February 7, 2025 (FactSet) Amazon, Like Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand (Bl...

MRKT Matrix - Thursday, February 6th S&P 500 is little changed after latest batch of earnings reports, jobs report ahead (CNBC) How stocks could react to Friday’s jobs report, according to JPMorgan traders (CNBC) US Jobs Will Get Marked Down, But Not as Much as Once Feared (Bloomberg) More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target (WSJ) Lawmakers Push to Ban DeepSeek App Fr...

MRKT Matrix - Wednesday, February 5th Dow closes 300 points higher for back-to-back gains as investors look past tariff tumult (CNBC) EU prepares to hit Big Tech in retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs (FT) Canada Eyes More Ways to Ship Oil to China as US Threatens Trade (Bloomberg) USPS says it will resume accepting inbound packages from China, Hong Kong (CNBC) US Firms Add 183,000 Jobs in ADP...

MRKT Matrix - Tuesday, February 2nd S&P 500 rises as investors shake off Trump's trade battles, Nasdaq gains 1% led by Palantir (CNBC) China Hits Back Against Trump’s Tariffs With Targeted Actions (Bloomberg) House Republicans Are Split on How Deeply to Cut Federal Spending (WSJ) Trump Hints at Curbs on Musk’s Powers After Billionaire Shakes Up Washington (WSJ) GM cuts 50% of Cruise staff after en...

MRKT Matrix - Monday, February 3rd Dow claws back sharp losses in stunning reversal after U.S. tariffs on Mexico are paused (CNBC) Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for one month after agreement on border troops (CNBC) Beijing Prepares Its Opening Bid to Talk Trade With Trump (WSJ) Putin says Europe will ‘stand at the feet of the master’ as Trump’s tariffs alarm allies (CNBC) Tom Lee says buy this tarif...

MRKT Matrix - Friday, January 31st Dow closes 300 points lower Friday as White House says tariffs will start Saturday (CNBC) Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China begin Saturday, White House says (CNBC) Fed’s Favored Inflation Gauge Ends 2024 With a Muted Advance (Bloomberg) 'Better than feared': Apple’s earnings beat appeases Wall Street despite iPhone sales miss (Yahoo! Finance) S&P 500 Earn...

MRKT Matrix - Thursday, January 30th Stocks waver in volatile session as traders digest deluge of earnings reports (CNBC) Meta Gains After Zuckerberg Predicts ‘Really Big Year’ in AI (Bloomberg) Microsoft Has Kind Words for DeepSeek AI, Offers It to Customers (Bloomberg) Microsoft and Meta AI Splurge Still Not Enough for Nvidia (WSJ) OpenAI in Talks for Huge Investment Round Valuing It Up to $340...

MRKT Matrix - Wednesday, January 29th S&P 500 falls as Fed pauses rate cuts, Nvidia resumes slide (CNBC) Powell Says Fed Doesn’t Need to Be in a Hurry to Lower Rates (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen says the stock market may top out over the next few months, if it hasn’t already (CNBC) BlackRock’s Rick Rieder was a buyer of certain names during tech’s ‘watershed event’ this week (CNBC) Microsoft Probing If...

MRKT Matrix - Tuesday, January 28th U.S. stocks rebound one day after Nvidia-led AI rout (CNBC) Tom Lee says market sell-off sparked by DeepSeek was an overreaction, as Nvidia suffers its worst day since 2020 (CNBC) Black Swan’s Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What’s Coming (Bloomberg) DeepSeek Challenges Everyone’s Assumptions About AI Costs (Bloomberg) DeepSeek sets stage for frenetic tech ear...

MRKT Matrix - Monday, January 27th S&P 500 slides, Nasdaq drops 3% in sharp AI stock sell-off spurred by China's DeepSeek (CNBC) What Is China’s DeepSeek and Why Is It Freaking Out the AI World? (Bloomberg) Nvidia’s $560 Billion DeepSeek Rout Is Largest in Market History (Bloomberg) DeepSeek Won’t Sink U.S. AI Titans (WSJ) Apple, Meta Are Bright Spots in Monday’s Tech Selloff (WSJ) Perplexity AI r...

MRKT Matrix - Friday, January 25th Stocks fall as rally pauses, but S&P 500 heads for weekly gain (CNBC) Trump Would ‘Rather Not’ Put Tariffs on China, Maintains Threat (Bloomberg) Wall Street Enters Darker Age With Most Stock Trading Now Hidden (Bloomberg) Japan Hikes Rates, Solidifying Exit From Rock-Bottom Borrowing Costs (Bloomberg) The new AI rally is leaving Apple behind, at least for now (C...