Articles for category: Market News

Russ Cohen

The AI Shopping Shift Separating Retail Winners From Losers

AI-driven shoppers are spending more – and quietly boosting a select group of retail stocks… Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Tom Yeung here with today’s Smart Money. We are all well aware of the risks artificial intelligence adds to investing. Just look at the recent “SaaSpocalypse” that rocked the ...

Russ Cohen

Alphabet Earnings Didn’t Just Beat—They Changed the Story

Some quarters meet expectations, some beat them, and some reframe the entire narrative. ’s Q1 2026 results, reported on April 29, fall firmly in the third category. The company just delivered its strongest revenue growth rate since 2022. It absolutely crushed estimates across nearly every major metric and provided a forward outlook that suggests the ...

Russ Cohen

Three Stocks for the AI Infrastructure Boom

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). 114% gains on POET from Jonathan Rose… where he’s looking now… the electricity grid that can’t keep up… how Brian Hunt is investing… Nvidia’s quantum reversal… how do you invest? As I write on Wednesday, stocks are rallying on last night’s news that President ...

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Hilton’s Q1 Report Put Big Question Front and Center for 2026

reported its Q1 2026 results on April 28, delivering a quarter that largely met Wall Street expectations. Investors were looking for signs of demand resilience, and, by that standard, they weren’t disappointed. The big question now is whether travel demand is starting to broaden beyond higher-income travelers—and whether that trend can last through 2026. A ...

Russ Cohen

You Can Now See What Wall Street Can’t

This system scans thousands of stocks daily… and you can see it for yourself right now. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Editor’s Note: Investing is changing faster than most people realize. Markets react in seconds… patterns form and disappear just as quickly… and traditional methods are becoming outdated. More ...

Russ Cohen

The AI Story Is Changing – And So Will the Market Leaders

Over the years, smart investors have learned to pay close attention when NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang steps onto a stage. Much like Steve Jobs in his prime at Apple Inc. (AAPL), Huang has a rare ability to see where technology is headed and explain it in a way that captures the market’s imagination. ...

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Bespoke Co-Founder Reveals His “Triple Play” Stocks

The Strait of Hormuz was reopened on Friday, signaling that negotiations with Iran were going well. This news sent the S&P 500 up 1.1%, the NASDAQ climbing 1.4% and the Dow jumping 1.8%, and each closed the week at all-time highs. But that optimism didn’t last long. Stocks began to fall this morning when traffic ...

Russ Cohen

This 7.8% Payer Is Our Play on the ’Software Apocalypse’

The time has come to make a move on this software-stock selloff. And we’re going to use (our favorite income plays, closed-end funds (CEFs), to do it. That’s because the story here—that AI is going to harm the sector, cost jobs and hurt the economy as a whole—is the opposite of what’s really happening on ...