Equity Outlook Q3 2026: Broadening Earnings Growth Meets Elevated Volatility

U.S. stock futures dipped late Sunday while oil prices rose, but didn’t spike, as investors kept their cool after a weekend packed with new fighting in the Persian Gulf. Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average fell 100 points, or 0.19%. S&P 500 futures were down 0.27%, and Nasdaq futures lost 0.48%. U.S. oil…

India’s securitisation market began FY27 on a strong note, with volumes rising about 20 per cent year-on-year to around Rs 61,000 crore in the April-June quarter, driven almost entirely by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), according to rating agency ICRA.   The growth extends the trend seen in the previous financial year, when banks sharply…

How many stablecoins do we need?I may need to create a spreadsheet just to keep track of stablecoin projects. Every day seems to bring a new one. I am not exaggerating when I say there are more stablecoins than currencies in the world. There are roughly 180 circulating currencies in the world. There are more…

Ask investors to name the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world, and you’ll probably hear the same names: Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, or OpenAI. Few would mention Alibaba (BABA +0.04%). That may be a mistake. While the market continues to view Alibaba as a Chinese e-commerce company battling slowing consumer spending and fierce competition,…

Preview a tool that measures recurring seasonal trends across thousands of stocks… Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Most investors spend their time trying to figure out what to buy. But according to Keith Kaplan, just as important– if not more – is when you buy. In today’s Friday Digest…

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