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The United Kingdom's Competitions and Markets Authority has indicated the deal between Activision Blizzard Inc (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) could hurt competition in the space.  Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter laid out why the regulatory chatter is...

Wharton Professor of Finance Jeremy Siegel has been beating the drum on inflation in recent months, urging the Federal Reserve to cast aside lagging indicators. Now that consumer prices are coming down, he says there's only one indicator left...

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve stepped up its campaign against inflation by raising its key interest rate a quarter point, its eighth hike since March. The Fed signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further rate hikes. While acknowledging the rate...

Benzinga's PreMarket Prep show welcomes a wide variety of excellent guests.  Many of the Street's best known analysts, such Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management and Daniel Ives of Wedbush Securities, have frequented the show, providing in-depth fundamental analysis. Asset...

The “sympathy” trade is working well in the automotive sector in Tuesday’s session. An upbeat fourth-quarter report from General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and raised guidance is taking Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) along for the ride higher. The price action in Dearborn's...

If a company offers up some good news the day ahead of an earnings announcement, it has to seem a bit fishy. In other words, why not wait until the following day to alert investors of the planned announcement (earnings) and the other unknown news? Unless, of course, the company is...

On some occasions, a company will preannounce that is going to have better than expected earnings. When that happens, it is often more difficult to predict the price action in the issue following the announcement for a few different reasons. The primary one: investors already factored in the better...

Several growth technology have made substantial comeback in 2023, but a few have not fully participated in the rally. One of those issues is Overstock.com Inc (NASDAQ: OSTK), which is the PreMarket Prep Stock of the Day. Overstock Once A High Flier: Similar to many other stocks in its sector, the...

JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), along with few other big banks, kicked off fourth-quarter earnings season Friday morning. The volatile price action for the behemoth bank following the report makes it the PreMarket Prep Stock of the Day. Street Leans Long Into Report: As detailed in...

The entire investment world was on pins and needles Thursday morning waiting for the release of the December Consumer Price Index reading at 8:30 a.m. EST. If you were listening to Thursday’s PreMarket Prep show, you had the luxury of hearing meaningful insight into the furious price action...

As more and more technology companies announce layoffs, the investor reaction to the job reductions has been mixed. The latest company to announce layoffs is Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN), which is Tuesday's PreMarket Prep Stock of the Day. Coinbase Sells From Day...

Sometimes the timing of when bad news is announced by a company can soften the impact of the potential price decline. For example, when the news is released after the close on a Friday, there is a chance the Street may overlook or forget the bad news by Monday morning. That was certainly not the...

Not all issues are off to as a rocky start to the New Year as the S&P 500 index. In fact, with a potential recession looming in 2023, one would expect the banking sector to be taking it on the chin along with the broad market. That is not the case with JPMorgan & Chase Co (NYSE: JPM), which...

It has been a brutal year for most tech companies. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock is down nearly 29% in 2022 — and that made it the top performer of the FAANG-gang in big tech. Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix...

During the turbulent year of 2022, the PreMarket Prep crew has brought on a wide variety of guests to help investors navigate the sometimes treacherous investing environment. Not all of their investment ideas have come to fruition — but then, whose investment ideas have been right 100%...