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Wall Street analysts bullish on META, NVDA and FSLR

Here are Thursday’s biggest calls on Wall Street: JMP downgrades Peloton for market performance to outperform JMP downgraded the stock primarily on valuation. “We are downgrading our rating on Peloton shares from Market Outperform to Market Perform as Peloton hit our previous price target of $16 while we leave our FY2024 estimates largely unchanged following …

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Nasdaq-100 futures rise as Meta rises in pace with quarterly earnings

Futures linked to the Nasdaq-100 were higher on Thursday, boosted by net gains from Facebook’s parent meta-platforms. Nasdaq-100 futures gained 1.3%. S&P 500 futures jumped 0.5%. Futures contracts linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 43 points, or 0.1%. Meta jumped more than 19% in premarket trading after reporting a pace of growth in …

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Biden’s IRA left Europe blind. And playing catch-up could lead to 2 big mistakes

US President Joe Biden, front, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union is working against time to create a program that can compete with President Joe Biden’s unprecedented climate subsidies. But he will face two key problems in the process. The EU had …

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Gold demand hits 11-year high on ‘colossal’ central bank buying

Bars of 99.99% pure gold are placed in a work room at the Krastsvetmet precious metals factory in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 31, 2023. Alexander Manzyuk | Reuters Gold demand hit an 11-year high in 2022 thanks to “colossal central bank buying, aided by vigorous buying by retail investors,” according to the …

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Britain Outlines Plans To Regulate Crypto Industry Following FTX Collapse

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a question and answer session at Teesside University, January 29, 2019. 30, 2023. Oli Scarf | Wpa division | Getty ImagesNews The UK has officially laid out plans to regulate the cryptocurrency industry, with the government seeking to curb some of the reckless business practices that have emerged …

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Central banks set to signal path of sliding interest rates in crucial week

A screen displays the Fed’s rate announcement as a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), November 2, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England are all expected to raise interest rates again this week as they make their first policy …

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