The market is running hot. Record highs, a strong tech rally, and an AI trade that has investors wondering whether the old rules still apply. But Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist at the Oxford Club, isn't spending this moment looking for what to buy. He's looking at what to unload. "Do you....
Good MorningEquities closed at record highs Monday with a cautious undertone, as chipmakers carried the session and Mag 7 names diverged, reflecting a market increasingly focused on which AI investments are producing returns and which are still a promise. Semiconductors extended their historic run, while broader breadth remained thin beneath the headline move.
Amazon and Alphabet edged lower after both tapped foreign credit markets to fund continued AI infrastructure buildout, with investors weighing the scale of that commitment against near-term earnings quality. Meta and Microsoft remain under pressure from the same dynamic, having raised CapEx guidance without yet delivering the margin expansion the market is pricing in. NVIDIA and AMD held firm, as chip demand remains the one part of the AI equation that needs no justification.
Intel surged after a report that it reached a preliminary manufacturing agreement with Apple, a potential inflection point for its foundry business and a meaningful shift in semiconductor supply chain positioning. Dollar General slid on soft fiscal 2026 guidance and a leadership transition, adding to concern about margin durability at the low-end consumer. Nebius edged higher ahead of its earnings report, with its full-stack AI cloud partnership with NVIDIA drawing institutional attention. Traders are watching Tuesday's April CPI print, Cisco and Alibaba earnings later this week, and Applied Materials on Thursday as the next real test of semiconductor CapEx conviction. Featured: [Watch] FREE STOCK PICK for Elon Musk’s Starlink SuperIPO (Ad) 
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The market is running hot. Record highs, a strong tech rally, and an AI trade that has investors wondering whether the old rules still apply. But Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist at the Oxford Club, isn't spending this moment looking for what to buy. He's looking at what to unload. "Do you... Read the Full Story |
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Photonics is critical to AI, with data centers the primary driver of business in 2026. The vast amounts of data require ultrafast, high-bandwidth transmission, or else face the bottlenecks presented by traditional copper. However, photonics is good for more than just AI, and space is the place wher... Read the Full Story |
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Buyback announcements often send key signals to investors about how companies view their own stock. When firms announce new buyback authorizations, it can be an indicator that they see opportunity in shares. These signals are particularly strong when buyback authorizations represent a significant p... Read the Full Story |
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SpaceX has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, targeting a June 2026 listing at a valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion - potentially the largest IPO in history.
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On May 12, the April reading of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be released. Polymarket predicts the number is most likely to come in at 3.7% or 3.8%. That "more of the same" result would support the Federal Reserve leaving interest rates unchanged. With energy prices surging on Middle East ten... Read the Full Story |
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MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) reported a robust Q1 result, but only one problem. The company’s margin contracted, and guidance expects the hit to continue, leaving investors feeling a bit squeamish. However, this company has followed a spend-first, grow-later model while fleshing out its robust Lati... Read the Full Story |
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When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, dividend returns aren’t typically what investors think of. Among technology stocks in the S&P 500 Index; approximately half do not pay a dividend at all. In general, these names tend to return more capital through buybacks. This comes as fir... Read the Full Story |
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Monday.com’s (NASDAQ: MNDY) manic Monday May 11 rally is another signal that AI disruption isn’t all that it's cracked up to be. While AI threatens the software landscape, it is still in its early phases, often wrong, and unlikely to disrupt established platforms that are, themselves, integrating ... Read the Full Story |
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For the past couple of years, one of the more dominant conversations in AI investing has been about training. Which company makes the best chips for training large language models? Which hyperscaler has the most GPU capacity? Those were the right questions for the previous several years. But in 202... Read the Full Story |
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Over the past several quarters, one word has characterized the market’s reaction to Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ: META) earnings reports: volatility. For four quarters in a row, Meta has gone back and forth between large post-earnings gains and falls. In Q2 2025, shares rose 11.3% after earnings, the s... Read the Full Story |
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The massive upheaval to global supply chains caused by a global pandemic is being accelerated by the artificial intelligence revolution. It’s a modern-day gold rush, but it goes far beyond the yellow metal. This rush for resources includes copper, lithium, uranium, and rare earth metals. And the mo... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It offers AC and DC power management products, switchgear and busbar products, thermal management products, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems for monitor... |
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