#market-analysis

#market-analysis

Ford's new affordable electric pickup prioritizes affordability by focusing on the basics, rather than features like a massive battery that would increase its price.

Meta Platforms Inc. shows significant performance, with shares up 31.9% year to date, while competitors like Apple and Tesla have seen declines.

Gold prices have been trading sideways for almost three months, with slight declines as risk appetite improved, suggesting potential changes in investor sentiment.

The Galaxy S25 series achieved 20.22 million unit sales from launch to June, outpacing the S24 series' 18.02 million with a 12.2% increase.

Web scraping delivers competitive intelligence for online course providers, giving them a strategic edge in the market. This intelligence helps in building stronger courses that can sell better.

July 2025 recorded a significant venture capital surge, with $16.66B invested across 496 companies, showcasing a 64% increase from May 2025's $10.15B.

Analysts at Scotiabank have just raised their price target on the XOM stock by $10 to $125 per share, with a sector perform rating.

HP Inc. reported a profit estimate of $0.74 per share for fiscal Q3 2025, which is a decline from the $0.83 per share in the same quarter last year.

Despite record-breaking investments in AI startups, the venture capital landscape shows signs of strain with a significant increase in exits at lower returns.

Shares of Palantir Technologies have surged 88.74% over the past six months and increased an impressive 1,520.33% since its October 2022 IPO.

Shares of Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) have rocketed over 830% in the last two years, and this multi-year rally is showing no signs of slowing down.

Foreign investor activity eased as global uncertainty around the pandemic, and inventory shortages made the U.S. market less attractive. However, the U.S. dollar has softened, inventory has picked up, and buyers have pulled back, creating opportunities for foreign investors, especially those paying in all-cash.

The July edition shows renewed optimism, as the Consumer Sentiment Index climbed to 61.8 from 60.7 in June, marking its highest point in five months.

Despite surpassing Wall Street's expectations with adjusted losses of $0.48 per share versus analyst expectations of $0.92 per share, the stock fell almost 6% the next day, closing at $12.72 per share.

Blackledge expects Pinterest's revenues to grow 14.6% year-over-year to $977.9 million, driven by improved monetization and a growing contribution from the company's new Performance+ advertising tools.

The pre-owned watch market peaked between 2020 and 2022 as luxury goods became popular during the pandemic. Rolex, one of the Big Three independent watch brands, has continued to fare relatively well as the pre-owned watch market has fallen from that peak.

Traders using identical strategies faced varied execution rates based solely on their server's network routing configuration, with some achieving 95% fill rates and others over 40% rejection.

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) is one of the gold standards as far as dividend-focused ETFs are concerned. With a nearly 4% yield, the American equity basket delivers on the income front while also allowing for a good amount of growth.

The major indices, except the Russell 2000, have recovered losses from this year’s massive sell-off, with renewed investment interest especially in big-tech stocks.

We looked at the 40,000 job listings we'd gathered from Google's job search engine, over a period between December 2024 and February 2025, and zeroed in on the salaries that companies were offering to prospective employees.

The May index suggests that the traditional spring momentum has likely already passed, and at levels far below normal.