Dow Jones Industrial Average pares early-week gains on Tuesday
- The Dow Jones shed some weight, falling to 42,130 on Tuesday.
- Markets largely failed to react to US CPI inflation, which eased slightly in April.
- Despite a general easing in the weighted index, key goods continue to rise, and tariff impacts loom ahead.
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Read MoreS&P 500 erases its loss for 2025 as Wall Street rallies on news of slower inflation
NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks rose Tuesday following an encouraging report that showed inflation unexpectedly slowed across the country last month.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.7 percent, coming off an even bigger gain to start the week after the United States and China announced a 90-day pause in their trade war to allow for negotiations.
Stock Market News: S&P 500 Turns Positive on the Year
Treasury yields come back from morning weakness and rise again as some analysts spot potential signs of inflationary impact from tariffs under the hood of the benign April CPI report.
The next major inflation data, the producer price index, will arrive Thursday. Economists surveyed by WSJ expect the monthly PPI to be a positive 0.3%,
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Read MoreThe Stock Market’s Boomerang Month Has Put Investors in a Bind
The stock market is now higher than before President Trump’s broad and steep tariffs sent share prices into a tailspin. The 10-year government bond yield is now largely in line with where it started the year. On Tuesday, a widely watched measure of inflation nudged lower.
Judging from a snapshot of today’s financial markets,
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Read MoreLIC Mutual Fund reintroduces five flagship equity schemes
The initiative, part of ‘Funds in Focus Q1FY25,’ includes updates to strategies and the use of new technologies. LIC MF stated that the reintroduction seeks to attract a wider set of investors.
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Read MoreThe Burst
Nearly 200% Higher, Will This Space Stock Keep Soaring?
Planet Labs combines satellite imaging and data analytics technologies to provide a service valuable to government agencies, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. The company has been developing its unique technology for 14 years, but it didn’t become a publicly traded company until 2021.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
1 High-Yield Casino REIT That Keeps Raising Dividends
VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) is a REIT that specializes in hotel and casino properties. Spun off from Caesar Entertainment in 2017, the company owns several of the most prominent properties in the United States.
Assets owned by VICI include Caesar’s Palace and The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Chelsea Piers in New York and the Hard Rock Casino in Cincinnati.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
If You Could Only Buy 1 High-Income Fund, What Would It Be?
Options trading is sometimes viewed as risky and that reputation is well-earned, especially when selling calls and puts naked. But when combined with stock ownership in the form of a covered call, it can be quite a conservative strategy.
Similar to the popular ETFs that track indexes like the S&P 500, a covered call ETF can be bought and sold like a stock,
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