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Oracle (ORCL) Stock Hits an All-Time High Amid Increased Cloud Demand

Optimism surrounding Oracle’s ORCL cloud and AI infrastructure endeavors pushed its stock to an all-time high of $228 a share on Monday.   This comes as the enterprise cloud leader has secured lucrative contracts thanks to its momentum in AI, with many analysts starting to raise their price targets for Oracle stock. That said, let’s see ...

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What’s Behind The 2x Rise In Salesforce Stock?

With a 20% year-to-date (YTD) decline, Salesforce stock (NYSE:CRM) has significantly underperformed the broader S&P 500 index, which is up 4%. This strong underperformance is largely attributed to rising concerns over slowing growth and the company’s competitive position in key areas like AI. However, if we look at a broader timeline, CRM stock has doubled ...

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August 8th Options Now Available For Netflix (NFLX)

Investors in Netflix Inc (Symbol: NFLX) saw new options become available today, for the August 8th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the NFLX options chain for the new August 8th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the ...

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Monday's ETF with Unusual Volume: RSPD

The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Monday, with over 382,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 43,000. Shares of RSPD were up about 0.8% on the day. Components of that ETF with the highest volume on Monday were Tesla, trading up ...

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Best Momentum Stocks to Buy for June 30th

Here are three stocks with buy rank and strong momentum characteristics for investors to consider today, June 30th: Shore Bancshares, Inc. SHBI: This bank holding company for the Shore United Bank has a Zacks Rank #1 and witnessed the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings increasing 7.1% over the last 60 days. Shore Bancshares ...

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SHOP Soars 8.4% in a Month: Can Growing Merchant Base Fuel More Gains?

Shopify SHOP shares have gained 8.4% over the past month compared with the broader Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s increase of 4.8%. The Zacks Internet – Services industry has declined 0.9% in the same time frame.  The outperformance can be attributed to robust growth in its merchant base driven by its merchant-friendly tools, including Shop ...

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A Bull Case for Apple: Is It a Sleeping Giant?

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has underwhelmed investors this year. As of this writing, shares are down about 19% year to date. That compares with a gain of about 4% for the S&P 500 during the same time frame. The stock’s underperformance has been driven by the company’s disappointing growth. Apple’s revenue in the first half of ...

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2 Monster Stocks to Hold for the Next 10 Years

There’s no shortage of great companies to invest in, but narrowing down your decision to just a couple of top stocks can be difficult. Volatility in the market earlier this year has left some investors wondering which companies have the stability, growth prospects, and lead in their respective markets to be long-term winners. If you’re ...