As of Friday morning before market open, for the most part stocks weren’t having a bad week. As always there were exceptions, however, and one of the unfortunate outliers was software development solutions provider GitLab (GTLB 0.70%).
On the back of a quarterly earnings report that disappointed the market,
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Israel’s attack on Iran early Friday sent global stocks tumbling, led by a selloff in Wall Street futures and a surge in oil prices.
The uncertainty in the Middle East – a major oil producing region – has sent investors scrambling amid uncertainty for financial markets.
Per reporting from Reuters,
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The nuclear energy sector has been a winner across the very recent past, following Wednesday’s news that an important company in the industry had been tapped for an upcoming government project.
Centrus Energy (LEU 0.19%) wasn’t that company, but it’s a key supplier to the enterprise that’s at the heart of the project.
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As of June 13, 2025, two stocks in the energy sector could be flashing a real warning to investors who value momentum as a key criteria in their trading decisions.
The RSI is a momentum indicator, which compares a stock’s strength on days when prices go up to its strength on days when prices go down.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Oil surged, stocks fell and investors sought safety in the U.S. dollar and government bonds Friday after Israel struck Iranian nuclear and military targets in an attack that raised the risk of war between the two countries and broader instability in the Middle East.
Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.9% before the opening bell,
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Economic uncertainty, ongoing market volatility, continued recession rumblings — what a perfect environment for bad ideas to percolate!
When navigating an unpredictable environment,
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The greatest threats to the United States are the rise of China and, as I noted on Thursday, the federal deficit. President Donald Trump and Congress have a window to address the China problem. But the federal deficit must be addressed today. The drivers of the deficit are spending on Social Security,
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Stock futures were falling early Friday after Israel launched an attack on Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership, ratcheting up geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 490 points, or 1.1%. S&P 500 futures dropped 1.1%, and contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 tumbled 1.4%.
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