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Recent market volatility is all about uncertainty, says Bob Lang with Explosive Options. One piece of clarity can come from Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings on Wednesday. Bob explains how SoftBank's offloading of the Mag 7 company's stock is something retail investors should note, adding that markets likely won't be happy with the earnings even if Nvidia posts blockbuster numbers. ========...

Talley Leger digs into the small-cap sector as investors look to avoid concentration risk in big tech. He identifies five catalysts for small-caps and thinks earnings could give them a rebound. He sees a “good argument” for rates to continue lower, calling the bond market the “tail that’s wagging the dog.” Talley covers the broadening of the tech sector and believes now is the time for investors t...

To understand market weakness, Chris Whalen says investors need to be paying attention to the Fed’s balance sheet and U.S. Treasury moves. He notes that the Treasury has been “sucking cash” out of the market. Combining that with a shrinking Fed balance sheet has “contributed to what we’re seeing in stocks.” He touches on difficulties in private credit and thinks investors should be wary of leverag...

Olivier Blanchard and Stephanie Walter discuss recent Chinese tech earnings. Stephanie says “AI is taking the wheel” for Baidu (BIDU) over advertising, saying it is in the middle of a “deliberate transition.” PDD (PDD), parent of Temu, “shows resilience,” she notes, but it needs to mature its AI systems. Olivier notes consolidation within AI and cloud services but doesn’t see a clear winner in the...

Ryan Kelley discusses the changing outlook for next year, especially in regard to the Fed’s rate path. He highlights his firm’s mid-cap fund HFMDX, looking for price and earnings momentum among other factors. Of its top holdings: “They’re going to benefit from the boom in AI…from a construction point of view.” He also looks at companies integrating AI, such as Wayfair (W). ======== Schwab Network...

Austin King returns to Next Gen Investing to highlight the recent downturn in Bitcoin. While the cryptocurrency saw a rebound on Tuesday, it briefly hit levels below $90,000 before the opening bell. Austin explains that bearish A.I. sentiment and the record-breaking government shutdown caused the risk-on asset to fade. That said, he makes the case for a long-term bull run as adoption expands. ====...

Cloudflare (NET) outages affected a large portion of the internet, from X and ChatGPT, to Shopify (SHOP) and Anthropic's Claude. Marley Kayden takes investors through the timeline and subsequent fixes being made as the company rushed to restore goodwill for investors. Many appeared to notice as shares recovered off lows of the trading day. Marley also dives into how these outages show how conn...

Likefolio’s Landon Swan says Target (TGT) is trading low “with reason” after it reversed its consumer sentiment trend to the downside. He says Walmart (WMT) is outperforming Target. He previews the earnings call for Target and what investors will be looking for in terms of guidance and corporate planning. He notes that while Target is leading in year-over-year change in visits, they have very easy...

Nick Raich believes Home Depot (HD) remains a core long-term holding even though he says the company could've better managed earnings expectations. He sees high mortgage rates adding to pressure but expects the company to take advantage of opportunity elsewhere. Jaime Katz sees operating margin compression as the biggest issue Home Depot will face. However, Jamie says operating leverage can ac...

Caleb Silver (@investopedia) previews Nvidia (NVDA) earnings and notes that there is a lot of retail investment in the name, along with other tech stocks that have been beaten up recently. He says if it’s not a blowout quarter with sky high guidance, he expects investors to punish NVDA stock because expectations are just so high. “The whole game here is a zero-sum outcome: either you control A.I....

Kevin Green tackles the Big 3 solo by turning to three retail giant reporting earnings this week. He explains why Target (TGT) can be a big mover to the upside or downside, the breakout potential in TJX Companies (TJX), and the bullish technical set-up Lowe's (LOW) presents into earnings. KG gives investors technical insight in the charts and offers example options trades for each stock. =====...

Mish Schneider is looking forward to Walmart (WMT) and Costco (COST) earnings, as well as some department stores, to track where consumers are spending. She previews the Fed’s December meeting, pulling for a rate cut, but discusses how expectations for that cut have fallen substantially. She believes the Fed is more focused on the labor market as new college grads enter the market as unemployment...

Charles Schwab's Nathan Peterson talks about how the A.I. narrative shifted strongly toward negativity as concerns of hyperscalers taking on debt added to concerns of stifled profits. After the SPX bounced off its 50-day SMA multiple times before breaking Monday into Tuesday, Nate makes the case that an A.I. "capitulation" event needs to take place for technicals to see a clean reset...

Ahead of Target's (TGT) earnings Wednesday morning, Tsvetta Kaleynska will see if the company is staying in tune with Main Street with concerns of inflation and tariffs persisting. While the stock has taken a beating in 2025 as peers like Walmart (WMT) prospered, Tsvetta believes its private labels and social buzz gives Target and edge, so long as the company can hit the bullseye on profit tar...

Home Depot (HD) posted a downbeat earnings report and guidance that caused the stock to sell-off Tuesday morning. As Marley Kayden mentions, Lowe's (LOW) traded down in sympathy with its peer ahead of its earnings on Wednesday. She gives investors a preview of the report and explains how macro headwinds will create similar issues for Lowe's report. Tim Biggam offers an example options trad...

“We’re seeing a tremendous amount of long-term opportunities” in the mid-cap space, says Lori Keith. She explains how mid-caps are providing exposure to the AI backbone and creating “durable trends” over the next decade. However, she warns investors to be selective when choosing mid-caps, paying particular attention to debt and operating margin numbers. Lori likes the “electrification theme” and h...

Kevin Green points to the SPX slip under 6,600 as notable, though it's 6,550 he's watching as the crucial level for the index. With a market that's "not selling everything," KG expects the 200-day SMA to act as strong support for stocks, though a break below can signal steeper selling. He talks about how investors deleveraging in A.I. and crypto play a critical role in price...

Stifel remained bullish on Nvidia (NVDA) with a price target raise and reiterated buy on the stock before Wednesday's earnings. Diane King Hall talks about how the firm has confidence in the company's guidance. Baird kept a buy rating for Oracle (ORCL) but trimmed its price target on the tech giant. Diane also turns to trouble on X and ChatGPT after a Cloudflare (NET) outage knocked both s...

Investors are cutting back their AI profit estimates, says Adrian Helfert, and thinks a market pullback is warranted to deal with “over-exuberance.” On crypto, he thinks it has reverted to a risk-on trade rather than a “safe haven” play. His picks today include Alphabet (GOOGL), “the beast of search,” and Walmart (WMT). Nvidia (NVDA) earnings are putting “a lot of pressure on the market right now,...

There are numerous risk-off signals hitting markets Tuesday morning, though Kevin Hincks points to A.I. speculation as the biggest. He explains that the attitude will persist heading into Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings Wednesday. Sentiment also hit Bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency turning negative for the year. As for the spontaneous jobless claims report, Kevin notes the higher number but makes the...

With Alphabet (GOOGL) hitting all-time highs this week, the Google parent company caught a fresh upgrade from Loop Capital before Tuesday's open. Tom White joins the show to look at a pair of example options strategies for the Mag 7 member. His first trade demonstrates a neutral to bullish put vertical. His second trade is a more bullish call vertical with more duration on a Dec. 19 expiry. To...

Garrett Melson joins Diane King Hall at the NYSE set to get his vantage point on the current markets. He examines the gains between the Mag 7 and the "S&P 493" to break down the performance between them. Garrett doesn't see any let up in capex spend from the hyperscalers and says the market pessimism isn't making sense to him. On the more macro front, he sees a potential &quo...

Amanda O'Neill joins the show to discuss Home Depot's (HD) earnings report. She cites weather events including hurricanes that impact year-over-year comparables. Amanda does note consumer spending power in apparel, but Home Depot's connection to housing and bigger-ticket purchases is where she sees consumers holding off. She explains more about Home Depot's cyclicality connection a...

Kevin Green expects volatility to remain elevated as the S&P 500 (SPX) breaks below its 50-day moving average. He believes the market is experiencing a "liquidation moment" driven by a combination of factors, including aggressive selling in equities and cryptocurrency. While Nvidia (NVDA) earnings could provide a catalyst, he notes that past reports haven't always led to signific...

Stifel hiked its price target on Nvidia (NVDA) to $250 from $212 ahead of the A.I. chipmaker's highly anticipated earnings event. Ben Watson drops by to examine the chart patterns forming for NVDA. On a shorter-term 5-day chart, he draws a downward triangle formation with a top at $192 and a low at $181. Zooming out to a 1-year chart, Ben adds the 50-day moving average hovering around $192 as...