When you get as many things going wrong as there are right now, you do not think about opportunity; you think about safety. I get that. We have the most uncertain of times in the Mideast after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran this weekend. We have a man-made inflationary event — the closing of…
Monday brings the first trading day of March on Wall Street, after the S & P 500 lost roughly 1% in February and remained only modestly positive year to date. The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend figures to ripple through financial markets in the week ahead. It was already going to be a…
Stocks swung wildly last week as investors wrestled with the impact of artificial intelligence on various sectors and the overall economy. This coming week is a wildcard after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. President Donald Trump said Saturday that “major combat operations” in Iran started overnight, with American and Israeli strikes on military and…
On Friday, the CNBC Investing Club held its February Monthly Meeting, where Jim Cramer and Director of Portfolio Analysis ran through each stock in the portfolio. Jim put a special focus on the Club stocks within the artificial intelligence trade. He’s dubbed them the “Fourth Industrial Revolution stocks,” borrowing the term from Nvidia CEO Jensen…
Shares of TJX Companies were flat on Wednesday despite the off-price retailer delivering another fantastic quarterly report. Conservative guidance, while unsurprising, is likely to blame. Revenue in the three months ended Jan. 31 increased 8.5% year over year to $17.7 billion, exceeding the consensus estimate of $17.4 billion, according to LSEG. Earnings per share (EPS)…
Did you ever wonder what made you pass on what turned out to be a sure thing? What made you thumb your nose at something that now seems obvious to have had real value when you dissed it? Was it all that difficult to see the opportunity? Or did you remember what happened in 2007,…
The gravitational pull of Nvidia will dominate Wall Street this week — but the AI chipmaker’s earnings report won’t be the only thing that matters to our portfolio. We’ll also hear from Salesforce , a battleground position swept up in the software-stock carnage; two retailers in Home Depot and TJX Companies on the heels of…
The stock market staged a comeback last week, even as Wall Street waded through a flurry of both upbeat and unsettling headlines. The Nasdaq broke its five-week losing streak on Friday, buoyed by strong advances from our big tech names like Meta Platforms , Nvidia and Amazon . The tech-heavy index ended the week 1.9%…
Being dark, as they call it, isn’t all it is cracked up to be. I’m talking about how “Mad Money” has been off the air these last couple of weeks to make way for the Winter Olympics. On a regular Friday edition of the show, I would lay out my game plan for the coming…
Texas Roadhouse missed Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter as high beef prices weighed on profits. But the restaurant chain’s strong comparable restaurant sales through the first seven weeks of the first quarter of 2026 paired with no change in management’s commodity inflation outlook for the year are…
