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It’s the latest reminder of how incredibly difficult it is to anticipate what’s around the corner for the U.S. economy.

Despite shortages of semiconductors and workers, the energy crisis and ongoing pandemic-induced dislocations, stocks are at record highs. 

By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Oil prices rose Thursday. With environmental activists still celebrating the historic hat trick of legal and shareholder victories Wednesday against ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Shell (RDS.B), and their stocks down accordingly, commodity investors at least moved back to the reality that oil will be with us for a […]

Weekend reads: What exactly is going on with big tech stocks? MarketWatch 3 hrs ago TOP TEN Shares of Amazon are little changed this year, underperforming the S&P 500 Index, which has risen 11%. (Getty Images) After many years during which the most familiar technology companies pulled the entire stock market up with them, 2021 is turning out to be a slow one for big tech. Here’s how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 have performed this year through May 20 (with dividends reinvested): Information technology has been this year’s second-weakest performer, with consumer discretionary taking t...

“bubble" in the stock market. To wit: “To appreciate how widespread current concern about a bubble is, consider the accompanying chart of data from Google Trends. It plots the relative frequency of Google searches based on the term ‘stock market bubble.’ Notice that this frequency has recently jumped to a far-higher level than at any other point over the last five years." What Is A Bubble? “My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is, in fact, becoming the fourth ‘real McCoy’ bubble of my investment career. The great bubbles can go on a long time and inflict a lot of pa...