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Surging inflation and the Fed’s hawkish monetary policy stance could keep the stock market under pressure in the near term. Amid the uncertainties surrounding the economy and the stock market, Stifel analysts are maintaining a negative outlook on the cannabis industry and have cut their price targets for the stocks…

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Concerns over the Fed's aggressive monetary policy stance and the consequences of the Ukraine-Russia war have driven a massive tech sell-off lately. However, since the robust demand for software solutions with continuing digitization is expected to drive the industry’s growth, we think high-quality software stocks Progress Software (PRGS) and Amdocs…

Despite many perceiving the tobacco industry as detrimental to society, most tobacco companies are investor favorites due to their extraordinary returns. Apart from their market-beating returns, these stocks are well known for their high dividend yields. Given an inelastic demand for products and high dividend payouts, this defensive industry looks…

Amid vexing inflation and hawkish federal monetary policy stance, the e-commerce sector suffered a significant earnings decline in its latest quarter. Given the bearish market sentiment, we think it could be wise to now avoid overvalued e-commerce stocks Etsy (ETSY), eBay (EBAY), Shopify (SHOP), Amazon.com (AMZN), and Wayfair (W). Read…

The Nasdaq Composite Index, the benchmark for technology stocks in the US, fell to its lowest level since November 2020 on Thursday, May 5, which can be attributed to a number of factors, including lacklustre earnings from e-commerce firms like eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and macro-economic factors like the Federal R

The Fed’s monetary policy tightening and deepening supply chain disruptions weighed heavily on the market sentiment and caused a massive sell-off in the tech industry over the past few weeks. Although many big tech stocks plummeted, high-quality tech stocks Microchip Technology (MCHP), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), International Business Machines (IBM), Broadcom…

Although the technology sector’s sell-off on concerns over the Fed’s monetary policy tightening has seen semiconductor chip stocks plunge in price lately, growing demand for advanced microchips and increasing corporate and government investments to ramp up production and ease the chip shortage should help these stocks rebound quickly. Therefore, we…

The stock market has been under pressure of late for various macroeconomic and geopolitical reasons. Investors are primarily worried now that the Fed’s aggressive monetary policy tightening to tame surging inflation could tip the economy into recession. We think investors who believe the market has still to hit bottom even…