Stocks slide further as inflation shakes bond market
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market gave back more of its record-setting rally Tuesday after bond markets rattled by high inflation cranked up the pressure.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7% for its third straight loss since setting its latest all-time high.
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Read MoreIs the Federal Reserve Quietly Fueling a Bubble? U.S. Money Supply Just Hit $22.7 Trillion
For years, investors have been told the Federal Reserve was draining liquidity from the financial system. Higher interest rates, quantitative tightening, and tough inflation talk all pointed toward tighter money. Yet beneath the surface, something very different has been happening.
U.S. money supply is climbing again — and it just reached $22.7 trillion,
Read MoreBest Growth Stocks to Buy for May 20th
Here are three stocks with buy ranks and strong growth characteristics for investors to consider today, May 20:
Valero Energy Corporation VLO: This energy company carries a Zacks Rank #1, and has witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 111.2% over the last 60 days.
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Read MoreNvidia earnings in focus as Asian stocks extend losses
Asian stock markets extended their losing streak on Wednesday as renewed inflation concerns linked to escalating geopolitical tensions pushed global bond yields higher, while investors turned their attention to earnings from Nvidia to gauge whether the world’s most valuable firm can support sentiment in an environment of rising borrowing costs.
A broad sell-off in global bond markets continued as traders increased bets that the Federal Reserve may still need to raise interest rates further this year,
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Read MoreThe Top 2 Nuclear Energy Stocks to Buy Right Now
The nuclear energy market cooled for roughly a decade after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, prompting many countries to pause their nuclear projects. But over the past few years, new decarbonization initiatives, safer nuclear reactors, and the expansion of the AI, cloud, and data center markets have driven more companies to restart their nuclear energy projects.
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Read MoreThe Burst
The AI Gold Rush Has an Overlooked Winner
Chipmakers, cloud giants, and software platforms are all basking in the AI spotlight. But there’s a truth hiding beneath the frenzy, which is that none of this technology can function without massive amounts of electricity. And that’s where Dominion Energy steps in.
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AI will triple U.S.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Which AI Stock Is Best?
Over the past year, CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) have become two of the hottest names in AI infrastructure.
Both run massive GPU cloud platforms that power artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, and both stocks have exploded. CoreWeave is up more than 230%, while Nebius has surged over 500%.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
Is Berkshire The #1 Stock to Buy In This Market?
Warren Buffett isn’t just a famous investor, he’s in a league of his own. Over nearly six decades, he’s compounded Berkshire Hathaway’s value at close to 20% annually. If you invested a meagerly $100 and let it grow at that pace for 60 years, you’d end up with over $5.6 million.
Yet despite Berkshire’s trillion-dollar size today,
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