This week (October 5–9, 2026) was a week where interest rate data for all five business days was available. While all four major countries maintained a normal yield curve and there was no clear direction, it was a week that left an impression regarding the ‘time lag’ that can gradually affect daily decision-making.
Most IT stocks saw solid gains in morning trade on Tuesday, 13 October, with stocks such as TCS, HCL Tech, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, and Infosys, jumping up to 5%, driving the sectoral index Nifty IT higher by 3%.
Stocks such as Mphasis, LTM, Coforge, Persistent Systems,
Energy markets rarely move this far out of the headlines without leaving a mark on portfolios. Slower global growth, stubborn inflation and war related supply shocks are reshaping which exporters hold the pricing power. Investors who ignore that shift risk missing where the new cash flows may concentrate. This article walks through 3 stocks exposed to this news backdrop from our Energy-Diversified,
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AI-related companies now control a share of the S&P 500 that rivals the most dangerous concentration episode in American financial history, and the last time anything came close, investors lost fortunes even as the underlying technology changed the world.
Although the benchmark S&P 500 has climbed 14.0% year to date and hit a record high on October 6,
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Strive’s $718 million in PIPE warrants outstanding at a $27 exercise price are set to expire on Tuesday.
Thank goodness for the likes of Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU), and a few other high-profile tech stocks in the S&P 500 (^GSPC).
Without their strong gains, the S&P 500 would be looking ugly — and far from hovering at record highs.
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Should you buy options when implied volatility rises or sell premium when volatility falls? Not so fast. In this clip from Rick Orford’s Barchart options trading tutorial, Rick explains why implied …
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Ebay shares jumped as Morgan Stanley analysts pointed to the company’s live commerce business as a major growth driver.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the other major stock indexes traded lower ahead of Tuesday’s open. On Monday, the Dow Jones industrials climbed 195 points, while Micron Technology (MU) led the artificial intelligence trade lower after President Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend.
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