25 Stocks to Ditch Before the Fed Meeting

The Fed will hold its two-day policy meeting next week, with the central bank's interest rate decision due at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 19. While CME Group's FedWatch tool pegs the odds of a June rate cut at less than 25%, traders will undoubtedly dissect a post-meeting presser with Fed Chair Jerome Powell for more hints of a July rate cut, the odds of which currently sit at 86.9%. Below are the 25 worst stocks to own the week of Fed policy meetings, looking at data since 2015, which encompasses 35 meetings.

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  The Fed may break a lot of stock-market investors’ hearts next week

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  Wall Street Week Ahead: All eyes on Fed as stock market pines for rate cut

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The trade war is already pushing businesses out of China—and it could be permanent

The seemingly unexpected collapse of trade negotiations between the US and China last month hinted that continual Sino-US tariffs may be the new normal. The latest trade numbers suggest that, China has been selling Americans fewer goods like computers and auto parts—and that other countries are benefitting from taking up the slack. What's at stake here isn't merely the health of China's export-focused manufacturing sector (and the millions of workers it employs).

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  U.S. to launch public hearings on additional China tariffs next week

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  China Might Not Admit It, but Trump’s Tariffs Really Sting

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Suze Orman Says These Are The Biggest Money No-Nos

Best-selling author, TV host and personal finance guru Suze Orman has been inspiring Americans for decades to make better money moves and avoid serious financial mistakes. She'll be the first to tell you that what you don't do with your money may be even more important than what you do with it. Here are 22 major money don'ts — straight from the expert.

20 Places Where You Can Retire on $200,000 and Feel Rich

How to retire in Slovenia Slovenia doesn't have a retirement visa for noncitizens of the European Union, so an Ameican retiree will have to apply for a one-year temporary residence permit before leaving the U.S. And, you'll need to choose a "purpose" for your visa. U.S. seniors can apply for the purpose of study — such as to take language classes — or for the purpose of becoming a self-employed worker. You must show you have an income at least equal to the "basic minimum income" in Slovenia, which was less than $450 a month in August 2018.

Former Zerocoin employee files lawsuit against company in a case more human than crypto

related id=1] Liu v. The Zerocoin Electric Coin Company LLC; and Does 1 Through 50, Inclusive, Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, CGC-19–57–6321 (May 29, 2019) [SDP] This new state court lawsuit involves a dispute over an alleged equity grant promised by Zerocoin to the Plaintiff. It's yet another example of how protocols may be decentralized and cryptographic and disputive as all get out but the rubber meets the road in business over what are fundamentally simple contract disputes.

Walmart laying off nearly 600 employees in Charlotte as part of outsourcing

Retail giant Walmart Inc. will lay off hundreds in Charlotte starting later this year as it outsources its finance and accounting operations. The retailer filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the N.C. Department of Commerce this week, stating a permanent closure of a Walmart division in Water Ridge will result in about 569 layoffs. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) signed a 12-year lease in 2015 to occupy the full 107,545-square-foot building at 2118 Water Ridge Parkway, where it operates several units, including finance and accounting.

Most Important Thing for Markets Is Fed Decision, Says Bank Julius Baer’s Gattiker

Christian Gattiker, head of research at Bank Julius Baer, discusses what he thinks is boosting markets right now and where he sees them heading. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.

Is GE Stock A Buy Right Now? Here's What Earnings, Chart Say

General Electric, one of the most widely held and actively traded stocks, continues to look for a turnaround as investors wonder whether GE stock is a buy or sell right now. Shares of the American manufacturing icon are up sharply in 2019 after a brutal couple of years for GE earnings. Should investors consider GE stock?

Broadcom Down Sharply On Earnings

This stock is down sharply on earnings/outlook. Today was a bad day for chip stocks overall with Philadelphia Semiconductor index down 2.5%, 3%.

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  Broadcom's disappointing revenue spells out 'negative outlook' for chip stocks

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Most Indian employees aren’t fully engaged at work, still they are better than anyone else

Indians are the most engaged at work compared to others around the world. The country clocked the highest increase (by 5 percentage points) in the number of “fully engaged” workers between 2015 and 2018, according to a June 14 global survey by ADP Research Institute, which focuses on human capital management and human resource management. China fared the worst, with a 13 percentage-point drop in the period, bringing employee engagement down to a dismal 6%.

Wall Street Learns Hard Lesson on Why Not to Say ‘Pig’ in China

For financial professionals around the globe this week, rising trade tensions and fears of a slowdown were no match for an unlikely drama suddenly unfolding in China: UBS Group AG's struggle to quell a public uproar over an economist's quip about pork prices. Was the furor in China -- amplified by state media and a local industry group's demand for the economist's firing -- some sort new front in the trade war? Might U.S. and European banks finally on the cusp of expanding in mainland China be thwarted over perceived slights?

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  UBS puts economist on leave in growing China pig row

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  UBS top economist put on leave after “Chinese pigs” comment provokes outcry

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Airbus Looks To Soar Above Boeing With This New Engine Technology

Europe's Airbus is looking at opening up a new front in its ongoing aerospace battle with U.S. rival Boeing by bringing the world's first hybrid-electric airliner to market. The plane-maker believes a new propulsion system will be ready for when an all-new single-aisle jet is released in 2035, insiders told Bloomberg. The way forward is still not clear, with the sources saying Airbus will start with a smaller single-aisle model before working up to a size comparable to the 240-seat A321neo.

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  Oman Air plans Airbus talks unless Boeing provides 737 Max support plan

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  Norwegian Air expects Boeing 737 MAX fleet to remain grounded until end of August

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3 Medical Marijuana Stocks to Buy

Often, when analysts or bloggers talk up the potential of marijuana stocks, the focus is on the consumer side of the industry. Indeed, it's on the medical side where growth likely is to be largest in the near term. Canada did legalize recreational marijuana in October, but investors promptly sold the news in response.

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  What the cannabis industry is saying about Canada’s new edibles rules

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  Marijuana producer Hexo stock falls after sequential revenue decline in the wake of Canadian legalization

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Why Google is planning a $600M investment in this small Texas city

Google is making an even larger investment than expected for its first data center in Texas. The search-engine giant, part of the Silicon Valley's Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL), is putting $600 million in the Ellis County facility, according to a statement on Friday. The company says it will create a number of jobs at the data center and hundreds of construction jobs.

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  Google CEO Reacts To Possible U.S. Antitrust Probes Into Tech Giant

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  Sundar Pichai just proved that you can take an Indian out of India but not India out of an Indian

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Competitive currency devaluation could prompt global financial chaos - ex-PBOC chief

Competitive currency devaluation does not benefit any country and could cause chaos to global financial order, former China central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Friday. Zhou did not specifically mention the Chinese yuan in his remarks to a financial forum in Shanghai on Friday. The yuan has fallen about 2.7 percent to the dollar since a major flare-up in trade tensions in early May and is nearing the psychologically critical 7 per dollar mark, a level last seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago.

Gold Miners Could Reward Long-Suffering Shareholders

However, the breakout could take time to unfold, allowing sector aficionados to place limit orders at lower levels on major funds or their favorite miners. The VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) came public in the mid-$30s in May 2006 and entered a narrow trading range, ahead of a 2007 breakout that reached $56.87 in March 2008. It crashed with world markets during the economic collapse, bottoming out at an all-time low in the mid-teens, ahead of a 2009 recovery wave that reached the prior high at yeas end.

The 10 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Right Now

With CBS stock priced at only 7.5 times this year's expected earnings though, the company would also make for a dirt-cheap entry or expansion into the entertainment industry. Air Lease (AL) Air Lease (NYSE:AL) relies on at least a decent economy to drive demand for passenger jets, and recently, investors have seen what they think are too many red flags. Take a closer look at all the data, though, and matters aren't as dire as they may seem.

4 Semiconductor Stocks to Sell

Analysts are looking for earnings of 90 cents per share on revenues of $15.6 billion. When the company last reported on April 25, earnings of 89 cents per share beat estimates by two cents. Nvidia (NVDA) Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares are simply unable to get up off the mat, as the onetime momentum sweetheart languishes near its December lows and remains well below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages.

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  Why Is ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (ZTO) Down 5.2% Since Last Earnings Report?

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  Why Is Cisco (CSCO) Up 0.4% Since Last Earnings Report?

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