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2026-02-28 02:50:00 ET By Carrie King Corporate America delivered again, with the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks on pace for 13% growth in earnings for Q4 2025. This would mark the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, a stretch not seen since the 2021-2022 emergen...

2026-02-27 23:05:00 ET By Elior Manier Another crazy month for markets is ending today, and investors are sighing after an impressive gap lower. The reasoning behind the risk-off flows was that US embassies in the Middle East had called for their staff to prepare security measur...

2026-02-26 21:55:00 ET By Elior Manier What a fakeout in the stock markets. It hasn't been easy to find any clarity in recent price action, and today marks yet another sign of why. Nvidia ( NVDA ) just posted immense earnings, beating all records by a wide margin, with $68.1...

2026-02-25 23:00:00 ET By Elior Manier US markets have run up higher after what seemed to be an eternal consolidation, led higher by tech. The sector, which had been hurting since October, hadn't led US markets since then, bringing a fresh picture to traders.... Read the f...

2026-02-25 06:20:00 ET There are 503 stocks that make up the S&P 500 ( SPX ) at the beginning of 2026. How many of them pay dividends to their shareholding owners?... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Dividend Payers In The S...

2026-02-23 10:09:00 ET For a holiday-shortened trading week, the third week of February 2026 was as jam-packed with news with market-moving potential as any we've ever seen. Yet the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) closed out the week ending Friday, 20 February 2026 at 6,909.51 , up a ...

2026-02-22 00:30:00 ET By Jennifer Nash The S&P 500 posted its first weekly gain since January, rising 1.1% after spending the majority of the week in positive territory. This marked the largest gain for the index in six weeks. The index is now 0.99% off its all-time high fr...

2026-02-21 10:35:00 ET ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Possible Portfolio Strategies As Markets Size Up AI Risk

2026-02-20 22:40:00 ET Week in review - Tariffs and inflation The US Supreme Court struck down the administration's broad global tariffs under an emergency act (IEEPA). However, the administration is pivoting to alternative legal tools. US financial markets reacted posit...

2026-02-20 21:15:00 ET The rotation out of US equities is in its second year and going strong. The rest of the world may be having its share of problems, but underperforming stocks is not one of them. Here is a brief snapshot of how things are going in other parts of the globe, relative...