SimonSkafar/E+ via Getty Images One company that has seen its share price hold up quite well as of late is Titan Machinery ( TITN ). This is actually a bit peculiar considering the market that it plays in and the fundamental weakness that the company has exhibited because of it. For those not familiar with the firm, it focuses on the agricultural industry. Specifically, it owns and operates a netw...
SimonSkafar/E+ via Getty Images One company that has seen its share price hold up quite well as of late is Titan Machinery ( TITN ). This is actually a bit peculiar considering the market that it plays in and the fundamental weakness that the company has exhibited because of it. For those not familiar with the firm, it focuses on the agricultural industry. Specifically, it owns and operates a network of full-service agricultural and construction equipment stores with locations spread throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. Most of its revenue comes from the agricultural sector, which has been absolutely decimated over the last year or so. But even when it comes to the construction space, the company is exhibiting some unfortunate weakness. That's why I am a bit surprised that, since I reaffirmed the business as a 'hold' candidate back in February of this year, shares have outperformed the market, rising 15.3% while the S&P 500 is up 10.9%. The unfortunate reality is that, right now at least, the firm is difficult to value. What's more, fundamentals are worsening, and I don't expect a recovery in the industry this year. Because of this, I actually believe that downgrading the stock from a 'hold' to a soft 'sell' makes sense here. Of course, I am always willing to admit that I could be wrong. The good news is that we will soon have more data with which to judge my overall thesis. I say this because, before the market opens on June 9th, management will be announcing financial results for the first quarter of the company's 2027 fiscal year. But honestly, the picture here doesn't look any better. In fact, analysts are expecting further fundamental deterioration. So unless management can come up with something big and unexpected, I really don't see myself changing my rating on it. Digging into Titan Machinery Author - SEC EDGAR Data This year, things really are not looking all that great for Titan Machinery. Take, if you will, the most recent quarter for the company. Th...
Golden Tempo with Jose Ortiz up, wins the 158th running of the Belmont Stakes with with Commandment and John Velazquez up finishing second at Saratoga Race Course on June 06, 2026 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Al Bello | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Golden Tempo proved his Kentucky Derby win was no fluke by coming back Saturday to take the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga S...
Golden Tempo with Jose Ortiz up, wins the 158th running of the Belmont Stakes with with Commandment and John Velazquez up finishing second at Saratoga Race Course on June 06, 2026 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Al Bello | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Golden Tempo proved his Kentucky Derby win was no fluke by coming back Saturday to take the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The win made Cherie DeVaux the second woman to train a winner in the third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown. The Saratoga Springs native joined Jena Antonucci, who won the race in 2023 with Arcangelo. DeVaux is the first female trainer to win two Triple Crown races. Commandment finished second, and Renegade, who was second to Golden Tempo by a neck last month at Churchill Downs, wound up third among the field of nine. The top three all ran in the Derby but opted to skip the May 16 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, because of the two-week break between the races. Similar to how he raced at the Derby, jockey Jose Ortiz rallied Golden Tempo from last to first with another strong stretch drive. However, Ortiz needed to do it without nearly the type of pace the frontrunners in the Derby provided. That meant the other horses in the race were fresher for the stretch run than they were in Louisville last month. However, the horse owned by Phipps Stable and Vincent and Teresa Viola, showed that did not matter. "I kind of wrongfully, probably, thought that because the way the race was run in the Derby, he was having to go out and prove himself," DeVaux told reporters. "We felt the best horse won the Kentucky Derby, and he just solidified that today." At the half-mile mark in the 1 1/4-mile race, Renegade, Commandment and Golden Tempo were in the back of the pack as Powershift led the way with Growth Equity close behind. Growth Equity moved into the lead as the horses entered the final turn. That's when Renegade, Commandment and Golden Tempo, who wer...
Germany's beleaguered carmakers are desperately seeking solutions for their under-used factories, with speculation swirling that Chinese manufacturers or weapons makers could move in.One solution is to open up factories for Chinese manufacturers to produce cars in Europe as they seek to get around EU tariffs on EVs, a step recently taken by Stellantis which owns Jeep and Fiat.
Germany's beleaguered carmakers are desperately seeking solutions for their under-used factories, with speculation swirling that Chinese manufacturers or weapons makers could move in.One solution is to open up factories for Chinese manufacturers to produce cars in Europe as they seek to get around EU tariffs on EVs, a step recently taken by Stellantis which owns Jeep and Fiat.
There is an old idea that a person's home is their castle, and that the threshold of a front door marks the line between the public world and the private one. For most of human history, crossing that line meant being seen by, at most, whoever happened to be standing there. That line has quietly ...
There is an old idea that a person's home is their castle, and that the threshold of a front door marks the line between the public world and the private one. For most of human history, crossing that line meant being seen by, at most, whoever happened to be standing there. That line has quietly ...
Property developers are focusing on building shopping centres featuring lush greenery, gardens and water features in mainland China, as such spaces have become more attractive to shoppers and retailers than conventional high-density malls. “Consumers increasingly view retail destinations as places to spend time rather than simply places to buy products. This reflects the continued growth of online...
Property developers are focusing on building shopping centres featuring lush greenery, gardens and water features in mainland China, as such spaces have become more attractive to shoppers and retailers than conventional high-density malls. “Consumers increasingly view retail destinations as places to spend time rather than simply places to buy products. This reflects the continued growth of online retail as well as changing lifestyle preferences,” said James Macdonald, head of research for China...
Since 2014, the Stock Connect scheme has become a major channel for Hong Kong and international investors to buy stocks on the Chinese mainland. But cross-border traders have grown frustrated in recent months, as they have been unable to access a wave of blockbuster listings by AI companies on the mainland. Likewise, mainland investors could not take advantage of a string of recent initial public ...
Since 2014, the Stock Connect scheme has become a major channel for Hong Kong and international investors to buy stocks on the Chinese mainland. But cross-border traders have grown frustrated in recent months, as they have been unable to access a wave of blockbuster listings by AI companies on the mainland. Likewise, mainland investors could not take advantage of a string of recent initial public offerings by artificial intelligence firms in Hong Kong. Here, we explain why Stock Connect does not...
designer491/iStock via Getty Images Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist High-income investors can often seek investments in municipal bonds that provide tax-exempt payouts. A fund like the VanEck CEF Muni Income ETF ( XMPT ) can provide significant diversification to muni bonds, helping to limit overall risk from what is a fairly safe fixed-income investment anyway. With that...
designer491/iStock via Getty Images Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist High-income investors can often seek investments in municipal bonds that provide tax-exempt payouts. A fund like the VanEck CEF Muni Income ETF ( XMPT ) can provide significant diversification to muni bonds, helping to limit overall risk from what is a fairly safe fixed-income investment anyway. With that said, they take an approach of investing in an underlying portfolio of closed-end funds that invest in munis. That presents a couple of points of concern that will increase relative volatility to what is typically a safe muni exposure. That includes most of these underlying funds being leveraged and the discount/premium that shares of CEFs can trade at. That is, the fund's share price can trade wildly differently from the underlying net asset value per share because it is based on supply and demand on the open market. For ETFs, such as XMPT, they traditionally trade at negliblie discount/premiiums because of the creation/redemption mechanism. XMPT Basics Dividend Frequency: Monthly Dividend Yield: 5.69% (SEC yield 5.92%) Expense Ratio: 1.97% (including acquired fund fees and expenses) Leverage: N/A Managed Assets: $212.5 million Structure: Passive ETF XMPT seeks "to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the S-Network Municipal Bond Closed-End Fund Index (CEFMXTR), which is intended to track the overall performance of the U.S.-listed closed-end funds that invest in U.S. dollar-denominated tax-exempt market." While XMPT doesn't carry leverage on the fund level, its underlying portfolio holdings do. As a fund-of-funds approach, it comes with AFFE, increasing that ratio, but the management fee is somewhat reasonable at 0.40%. I'd say somewhat reasonable because for a passively managed fund, that is still fairly high but is lower than the ~0.50% average across the ETF universe. Performance - Discounts Tighten Even Further...
SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images The 1-Minute Market Report June 7, 2026 And just like that, the historical 9-week rally is over. It met an ignominious end when the market got shellacked on Friday, after the announcement of a much better than expected employment report. The headline loss of 200 S&P 500 points masked the brutality of the selloff. Stocks of all sizes and flavors took heavy selli...
SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images The 1-Minute Market Report June 7, 2026 And just like that, the historical 9-week rally is over. It met an ignominious end when the market got shellacked on Friday, after the announcement of a much better than expected employment report. The headline loss of 200 S&P 500 points masked the brutality of the selloff. Stocks of all sizes and flavors took heavy selling, with very few escaping the wrath of Mr. Market. We will cover all of the important action using the charts and tables below, beginning with a snapshot of the past 4 weeks. S&P 500 Last 4 Weeks How bad was it? We took out everything we had gained over the last month. S&P 500 last 4 weeks (Author compilation) Zoom Out To Twelve Months When we look at the market on a month-by-month basis, we can see how powerful this rally has been since the end of March. April was up 10.4%, and May has finished with a very respectable gain of 5.4%. It has now given back exactly half of those gains. S&P 500 returns by month (Author compilation) S&P 500 Drawdowns Drawdowns are back. As you can see, this is a particularly sharp drawdown, at least in the initial stages. Will the dip-buyers show up and save the day? I'm counting on them. S&P 500 drawdowns (Author compilation) A Look At The Bull Run Since 2022 Despite the pounding we took on Friday, we have still doubled our money in the last 3.5 months. That's twice as fast as normal. S&P 500 price since 2022 (Author compilation) Major Index Performance Last Week Nasdaq stocks got creamed last week, especially the Nasdaq 100, which is where many of the hyperscalers live. Microcaps were one of the hottest parts of the market, so it was no surprise that they were a target for sellers last week. Indices returns last week (Author compilation) Major Asset Class Performance Blockchain companies had one of their worst weeks ever - down 10.1%. Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies can't catch a bid. Asset class returns (Author compilation) Equity Se...
China’s central bank extended its gold-buying streak in May, adding to holdings as prices of the precious metal remained under pressure. Bullion held by the People’s Bank of China rose by 320,000 troy ounces last month, according to data released on Sunday. The latest addition extended its buying streak to 19 months, the longest since at least 2015, when the PBOC began publishing more regular upda...
China’s central bank extended its gold-buying streak in May, adding to holdings as prices of the precious metal remained under pressure. Bullion held by the People’s Bank of China rose by 320,000 troy ounces last month, according to data released on Sunday. The latest addition extended its buying streak to 19 months, the longest since at least 2015, when the PBOC began publishing more regular updates on its gold reserves. Gold edged lower in May, marking a third consecutive monthly decline after it hit a record in late January. Persistent inflation concerns and expectations for higher-for-longer interest rates triggered by the war in the Middle East have weighed on the appeal of non-yielding assets. Global central-bank purchases have been a key pillar of support for bullion in recent years. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said last month it expects the buying to be stepped up as geopolitical developments are likely to reinforce a push to diversify reserves.
Getty Images Transport stocks have been quiet winners so far in 2026. Amid the AI boom and lackluster performance from cyclical slices of the domestic equity market, trucking and rail names have offered upside and even some diversification benefits. Changes are happening fundamentally, too, with a recent FedEx ( FDX ) spinoff and ongoing rejiggering at UPS ( UPS ). I had a buy rating on the latter...
Getty Images Transport stocks have been quiet winners so far in 2026. Amid the AI boom and lackluster performance from cyclical slices of the domestic equity market, trucking and rail names have offered upside and even some diversification benefits. Changes are happening fundamentally, too, with a recent FedEx ( FDX ) spinoff and ongoing rejiggering at UPS ( UPS ). I had a buy rating on the latter back in December. Shares have returned 11% in the past six months, outperforming the S&P 500 by a percentage point. Today, I reiterate a UPS buy call. I ' ll provide fundamental updates and a refreshed look at " brown ' s " technical situation. UPS Beating SPY YTD, Lags FDX StockCharts.com S&P 500 Dividend Yield Heat Map: UPS 6.0% Dividend Yield Finviz Back in April, UPS reported a solid set of quarterly results. Q1 non-GAAP EPS of $1.07 topped the Wall Street consensus forecast of $1.02, while revenue of $21.2 billion, down 1.4% from the same period a year earlier, was a material $230 million beat. The management team reiterated its FY 2026 guidance. But shares sunk 4.0% in the following session, marking the worst earnings reaction back to July 2025. Looking ahead to the July 28 report, the options market prices in an elevated 6.5% earnings-related stock price swing based on the at-the-money straddle expiring soonest after the Q2 release. Implied volatility on the $94 billion market cap Industrials sector stock is 30.3%, implying about a 2% daily change, while short interest on the stock is low at 3.2%. For longer-term shareholders, UPS ' s dividend yield is now 6.0%, which is very high and almost five percentage points above that of the S&P 500. Looking back on the quarter that was, UPS's turnaround strategy continued to make strides, namely, a reduction in Amazon volume by approximately 500,000 ADV, the closure of 23 buildings, and the expansion of cost-saving initiatives such as its Driver Choice Program. While the top line and operating profit fell, the declines were ...
Key PointsThe iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF provides exposure to the entire domestic market with a significant technology tilt, whereas the Vanguard Value ETF focuses on undervalued large-cap stocks.
Key PointsThe iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF provides exposure to the entire domestic market with a significant technology tilt, whereas the Vanguard Value ETF focuses on undervalued large-cap stocks.
A New Shortcut To Quantum Entanglement Authored by University of Chicago via ScienceDaily , Many of the most promising quantum technologies, including advanced sensors and future quantum computers, depend on a phenomenon known as entanglement, where particles become deeply connected and influence one another in ways that cannot be explained by classical physics. Creating the complex entangled stat...
A New Shortcut To Quantum Entanglement Authored by University of Chicago via ScienceDaily , Many of the most promising quantum technologies, including advanced sensors and future quantum computers, depend on a phenomenon known as entanglement, where particles become deeply connected and influence one another in ways that cannot be explained by classical physics. Creating the complex entangled states needed for these technologies has traditionally required sophisticated equipment and carefully designed experimental systems. Researchers have shown that a few simple adjustments to a standard quantum optics setup can generate a surprising range of highly entangled quantum states. Credit: Clerk Group Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have now proposed a much simpler approach. Their new theoretical method can generate and control a wide range of entangled quantum states using tools that are already common in many quantum physics laboratories. The work, published in Physical Review X, could help advance ultra precise quantum sensing and open new opportunities for exploring fundamental physics. "We wanted to take simple ingredients that you find in a lot of physical platforms and put these together in a minimal way to get something interesting, complex and powerful," said Aashish Clerk, professor of molecular engineering at UChicago PME and senior author of the new study. The research was supported by Q-NEXT, a U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center led by DOE's Argonne National Laboratory. Rethinking Cavity QED Systems The team's approach is based on cavity quantum electrodynamics, commonly known as cavity QED. In these experiments, atoms or other particles are placed inside an optical cavity, which consists of two mirrors that trap light between them. The particles then interact with the confined light inside the cavity. A limitation of many cavity QED systems is that all of the atoms ...
Rose Abuin | New York Daily News | Tribune News Service | Getty Images At least 12 people were wounded in a shooting near an Ohio festival, police say. A search for the suspects was ongoing following an outbreak of gunfire that sent crowds scrambling for cover. Two of the wounded were in critical condition, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said. He said it appeared there were at least two ...
Rose Abuin | New York Daily News | Tribune News Service | Getty Images At least 12 people were wounded in a shooting near an Ohio festival, police say. A search for the suspects was ongoing following an outbreak of gunfire that sent crowds scrambling for cover. Two of the wounded were in critical condition, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said. He said it appeared there were at least two people firing weapons who were "probably shooting at each other." The Toledo Police Department said the shooting happened near the Old West End Festival, an annual gathering of live music and home tours in a historic district of the city. The department said an active search was underway for those responsible. "I am deeply concerned about the situation in Toledo tonight. Summer festivals should be safe spaces for families to spend time together without fear of violence," Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement. Multiple videos posted to social media showed people running over the sound of gunshots and emergency officials tending to others who appeared wounded. Kevin Berry said he was sitting in the neighborhood arboretum listening to live music with his friends when he heard a handful of gunshots ring out. "Everybody hit the deck," he said. When he looked back up, he saw a gun being tossed to the ground less than 50 feet (15 meters) away from him. Police officers who were already on-site for the festival immediately responded to the scene. Berry, who has medical training and served in the U.S. Navy, said he walked around the area looking for potential victims who might need help. He said he saw at least five people with gunshot wounds. "The folks who were hit were spread out around the arboretum area," he said. The Old West End Festival is a two-day celebration in Toledo's historic district that includes live music, food vendors, home tours and shopping. Berry described it as the "kick-off to Toledo's summer festival season." Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google...