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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    - Broadcom (AVGO) shares are up, after the chipmaker authorized a new buyback program of up to $10 billion shares. Analysts see the move as a sign of confidence following recent tariff-related weakness.

    - Humana (HUM) shares surged after the US government said they will pay private Medicare Advantage plans more money next year than it originally proposed in January. It is a major win for insurance companies that have faced increasing scrutiny in Washington. The shares of insurers surged on the decision, posting some of their biggest intraday gains since 2020.

    - RPM International (RPM) shares dropped after the manufacturer of building supplies forecast flat 4Q sales and posted disappointing 3Q sales. The management of RPM said the company is not immune to President Trump's tariffs.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - UnitedHealth (UNH) shares rise after the US government said it will pay private Medicare Advantage plans more money next year than it originally proposed in January, a major win for insurance companies that haved increasing scrutiny in Washington.
    - Humana (HUM) shares are up it was announced Medicare Advantage plans will see payments increase by an average of 5.06%, more than double the rate the government proposed in January.
    -CVS (CVS) shares rally after the company said it expects its financial results to meet or exceed its previously issued guidance and named a new chief financial officer.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Nvidia (NVDA) leads the Magnificent Seven higher on Tuesday. Stocks climbed as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there’s the potential for advantageous trade deals with major US trading partners.
    - Humana (HUM) shares rise and are likely to break out of the range today. Health insurance stocks are up after the US government said it will increase payments to private Medicare Advantage plans by an average of 5.06% next year, more than double the originally proposed rate.
    - Broadcom (AVGO) shares are up after the chipmaker authorized a new buyback program of up to $10 billion shares. Analysts see the move as a sign of confidence following recent tariff-related weakness.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Apple (APPL) are moving in the premarket following days of a downward trend, as employees from different Apple locations across the country said stores filled with customers over the weekend — with the shoppers expressing concerns that prices will climb dramatically after the levies are imposed. Most iPhones, Apple’s best-selling and most important product, are manufactured in China, which is in line for tariffs of 54%.
    - Robinhood (HOOD) is on the move this morning after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to equal weight to overweight. In a tougher macro backdrop with greater need to hedge risks, the firm sees risks for retail dis-engagement to pressure trading revenue at Robinhood, leading it to cut EPS estimates.
    - Tesla (TSLA) shares have climbed along with the market today. It comes as Joel Levington, Director of Credit Research for Bloomberg Intelligence, writes this morning that Elon Musk's pursuit of ambitious and high-risk bets such as the Cybertruck -- are now falling well short of sales goals even with aggressive lease discounts - and the elusive RoboTaxi are taking a toll on Tesla's fundamental performance at a critical juncture in the auto market.
    - Walgreens (WBA) is rising after it reported quarterly profit that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, marking a strong performance in what is likely one of its last quarters as a public company. It's welcome news for investors of the second-largest US pharmacy chain, who have been concerned about the ability of Walgreens to make enough money amid declining insurance payments for prescription drugs, and increased competition from online retailers and big box stores.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - CVS (CVS) is getting a boost this morning following the Trump administration's increased 2026 payments for Medicare Advantage plans by more than double what the market was expecting. It also removes the possibility of having to close Medicare Advantage plans, which has pushed stocks like CVS and United Health (UNH), as well as others in the healthcare sector, higher.
    - Broadcom (AVGO) is higher this morning after its downward trend following US tariffs levied across Taiwan, Vietnam, China, and other countires. The shares jumped on its $10 billion share buyback this morning.
    - Apple (APPL) shares are higher as traders learned it may be getting a boost as customers front run the tariffs. Employees from different Apple locations across the country said stores filled with customers over the weekend — with the shoppers expressing concerns that prices will climb dramatically after the levies are imposed. Most iPhones, Apple’s best-selling and most important product, are manufactured in China, which is in line for tariffs of 54%.
    - Nike (NKE) is climbing this morning as traders may be looking to "buy the dip" after severe declines for the stock and other retailers as tariff policy weighs on its price.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    - It is currently difficult to call the valuation bottom for the European luxury sector due to limited visibility on earnings from tariffs impact and how that will impact global demand, JPMorgan writes in note as downgrades Pandora to neutral.

    - Infineon Technologies AG signed a deal to buy Marvell Technology Inc.’s automotive networking business for $2.5 billion in an all-cash deal to strengthen its industry-leading car unit.

    - Repsol shares pare early gains Tuesday after its 1Q upstream production missed analyst estimates on lower refining margin, weaker utilization rates amid maintenance works. Analysts expect a cut to consensus. Stock trades 0.2% higher after rising as much as 4.5%.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    - Dollar Tree (DLTR) shares are up as it was raised to buy from neutral at Citi, which anticipates the higher across-the-board tariffs will be positive for the discount retailer.

    - Stellantis NV (STLA) shares are down. However, the Jeep-maker is willing to help its suppliers pay tariff costs to withstand the initial shock of US President Donald Trump’s trade war. The automaker has outlined a program in which suppliers would apply for help from the company to make monthly tariff payments to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Marlo Vitous, Stellantis’ head of purchasing in North America, laid out the plan during a meeting with suppliers in Detroit last week, the person said.

    - AppLovin (APP) shares are up as a proposal to merge itself with the US subsidiary and eventually the global business of TikTok, as reported by CNBC, would help the advertising-technology firm accelerate its reach beyond its typical video-game clientele and into e-commerce. But its bid could be crowded out by other potential bidders such as Amazon, Blackstone and Oracle. AppLovin is expected by consensus to reach record free cash flow near $3 billion in 2025, thanks to ads, which yielded a 76% adjusted Ebitda margin in 2024.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers

    - Stellantis NV (STLA) shares are down. However, the Jeep Maker is willing to help its suppliers pay tariff costs to withstand the initial shock of US President Donald Trump’s trade war. The automaker has outlined a program in which suppliers would apply for help from the company to make monthly tariff payments to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Marlo Vitous, Stellantis’ head of purchasing in North America, laid out the plan during a meeting with suppliers in Detroit last week, the person said.

    - Dollar Tree (DLTR) shares are up as it was raised to buy from neutral at Citi, which anticipates the higher across-the-board tariffs will be positive for the discount retailer. The stock gains as much as 7.6%.

    - AppLovin (APP) shares are up as a proposal to merge itself with the US subsidiary and eventually the global business of TikTok, as reported by CNBC, would help the advertising-technology firm accelerate its reach beyond its typical video-game clientele and into e-commerce. But its bid could be crowded out by other potential bidders such as Amazon, Blackstone and Oracle. AppLovin is expected by consensus to reach record free cash flow near $3 billion in 2025, thanks to ads, which yielded a 76% adjusted Ebitda margin in 2024.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    -Apple (AAPL) shares slip as Wedbush cuts the price target to $250 from $325, citing the Trump administration’s tariff policies. The firm retains a positive long-term view on the stock given its strong free cash flow and Services business.
    - Dollar Tree (DLTR) shares inch higher, up about 1%, after Citi turned bullish, anticipating that the higher across-the-board tariffs will be positive for the discount retailer. Citi still acknowledges that ~50% of the company’s product is subject to higher tariffs.
    -MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares fall after the company said it may not able to regain profitability in future periods, and significant decrease in the market value of its Bitcoin holdings could adversely affect ability to satisfy financial obligations and could cause default. The company also expects a net loss for 1Q.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    -Apple (AAPL) shares slip as Wedbush cuts the price target to $250 from $325, citing the Trump administration’s tariff policies. The firm retains a positive long-term view on the stock given its strong free cash flow and Services business.
    - Dollar Tree (DLTR) shares inch higher, up about 1%, after Citi turned bullish, anticipating that the higher across-the-board tariffs will be positive for the discount retailer. Citi still acknowledges that ~50% of the company’s product is subject to higher tariffs.
    -MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares fall after the company said it may not able to regain profitability in future periods, and significant decrease in the market value of its Bitcoin holdings could adversely affect ability to satisfy financial obligations and could cause default. The company also expects a net loss for 1Q.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Tesla (TSLA) shares plunged in early trading to below a level that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the shares would never fall to again. Tesla bull Daniel Ives slashed his price target by 43%, citing a brand crisis as the electric vehicle maker, led be the world's richest man and top Trump adviser Elon Musk, has become a “political symbol globally.”
    - JPMorgan (JPM) shares are lower along with other US big banks, with the nation's top financials set to report earnings this week. A severe slowdown in the economy and consumer spending could limit earnings of the big banks. Their stocks plunged last Thursday and Friday with the group having its worst two-day decline since March 2020. It also comes as CEO Jamie Dimon released his annual letter to shareholders, urging a quick resolution on tariffs.
    - Apple (APPL) shares are lower in premarket trading after the iPhone maker declined 7.3% on Friday. Wedbush Global Head of Technology Dan Ives cut his price target on the stock to $250 from $325. Apple's market cap sank $443.5 billion last week, the largest weekly market cap decline on record. The stock dropped 13.6% last week, its worst week since the week ended March 30, 2020, when it plummeted nearly 18%.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Palantir (PLTR) shares are down along with other tech giants and chipmakers after the NASDAQ entered a bear market to end last week. The S&P 500 experiencing its worst two-day plunge since March 2020, and the Nasdaq 100 entering a bear market, dragging the tech sector downward.
    - Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is lower in the premarket, despite Wall Street analysts pointing to cybersecurity stocks as potential safe havens in market turmoil. Early indications are cybersecurity-related stocks like Palo Alto Networks are not beating the trend.
    - Wells Fargo (WFC) shares tumbled along with other banks, including Goldman Sachs and other US big banks, with the nation's top financials set to report earnings this week. A severe slowdown in the economy and consumer spending could limit earnings of the big banks.
    - Nike (NIK) shares are continuing their slide after it tumbled to hit its lowest level since 2017. The trend is downward for Nike this morning despite Vietnam looking to work with the Trump administration on a tariff negotiation, which would limit the threat to Nike's supply chain.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - European defense stocks, one of this year’s best-performing groups, slump amid a broad market rout. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that US firm Howmet Aerospace told customers it has declared a force majeure event in the wake of the tariffs announced by President Donald Trump.
    - The Trump administration decided against allowing Medicare to pay for obesity drugs, a move that would have given millions of older Americans access to the medications and cost the government billions.
    - Shell shares drop as much as 8.4% to trade at the lowest in two years, after the oil major lowered its 1Q gas output guidance, adding to grim sentiment caused by the global stock market slump and oil prices at four-year lows. The company cited unplanned maintenance in Australia and adverse weather as reasons for the downgrade.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    - Tesla (TSLA) shares fell on Friday after starting the week on the upswing. One of Wall Street’s most bearish Tesla analysts further reduced estimates for the company’s earnings, citing the magnitude of car-buyer backlash against Elon Musk. Tesla’s first-quarter vehicle deliveries were far below even JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ryan Brinkman’s pessimistic estimate, “confirming the unprecedented brand damage we had earlier feared,” he said in a report Friday. The EV maker also saw a key executive leave. David Lau, Tesla's vice president of software engineering, has told people at the company that he is stepping down, according to people familiar with the matter. Lau, one of the few executives to promote the automaker’s products alongside Elon Musk, has been at Tesla for almost 13 years and has held the vice president title since 2017. His team is responsible for the software in Tesla’s vehicles — overseeing infotainment and information security to over-the-air software updates — as well as cloud services and manufacturing systems.

    - Shares in companies that have large manufacturing operations in Vietnam, including Nike (NKE) and Lululemon Athletica (LULU) soared Friday after President Donald Trump said Vietnam was willing to eliminate tariffs to avoid new US levies. Nike shares erased an earlier loss to gain 3%. Apparel and shoemakers’ shares tumbled Thursday after the president unveiled a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, where several had shifted manufacturing in recent years after Trump hit China with tariffs during his first term.

    - Shares of big US banks plummeted, notching their biggest two-day drop since March 2020, after China escalated its trade war with the US.Some of Wall Street’s top lenders, Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Citigroup (C) all closed more than 7% lower after China retaliated against President Donald Trump’s tariffs with a 34% levy on US goods. The KBW Bank Index tallied a roughly 16% drop over Thursday and Friday, the gauge’s worst two-session plunge since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Shares of JPMorgan Chase (JPM), which traded ex-dividend on Friday, erased some $51 billion from its market capitalization. Regional lenders also took a hit with the KBW Regional Banking Index slumping 3.7%, to close at the lowest level since July 9.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Shares of Nike surged after President Trump said Vietnam was willing to eliminate tariffs to avoid new US levies. The news reversed earlier losses for Nike, which had fallen after Trump unveiled a 46% levy on Vietnam, where several had shifted manufacturing in recent years.
    - Tesla and Nvidia are leading the Magnificent Seven stock losses on Friday after China escalated a trade war by retaliating against new US tariffs with levies on all American imports. Nvidia fell -4.2% while Tesla slumped Tesla -5.7%

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    -Tesla (TSLA) shares drop. Tesla's first-quarter vehicle deliveries were far below estimates, confirming "unprecedented brand damage" due to car-buyer backlash against Elon Musk. Tesla's sales plummeted 62% last quarter in Germany, and its stock has slumped since hitting a record high on December 17.
    -Nvidia (NVDA) shares slump after Thursday’s slump wiped $1.4 trillion in market capitalisation from the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index. Companies like Apple, Nvidia, and Broadcom are particularly affected, as they source hardware components and assembly labor from southeast Asia and will have to either hike prices or absorb costs and watch profits dwindle.
    -Wayfair (W US) shares slide after Citi downgraded the online furniture retailer to neutral from buy. The broker said President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement “created significant exposure” to the supplier base of Wayfair, and sees eBay as better positioned.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:

    -Apple (AAPL) shares plunge. Apple is finding itself squarely in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, even after a yearslong effort to insulate the iPhone maker from trade wars and supply chain disruptions.A long list of levies unveiled by the White House are poised to hit the company especially hard, triggering its worst stock rout in five years.
    -Nike (NKE) shares fall. A tariff of 46% on goods from Vietnam is particularly painful for companies such as Nike, Adidas, and Lululemon, which produce significant amounts of merchandise in the country. Levies of 49% on Cambodia and more than 30% on Indonesia and Thailand are also problematic.
    -Stellantis (STLA US) shares fall. Stellantis facilities are linked to halted production across its Canada and Mexico supply chain. The results of Donald Trump’s initial country and sector tariffs are also an early warning since global levies followed.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Apple (APPL) shares dipped after the company lost over $300 billion yesterday, second largest drop in market cap for any company ever. The drop comes as the company has moved its supply chain away from China but to countries that face high tariffs.
    - Nike (NKE) is continuing its slide as shoe and garment makers extended their selloff as they face tariffs on their Asian-made products. Apparel and footwear companies that shifted manufacturing from China to avoid tariffs are now being targeted by Trump's tariffs on Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand.
    - Wayfair (W) shares are sliding 11% in premarket trading putting the stock on track to extend declines after Citi downgraded the online furniture retailer to neutral from buy. Analyst Ygal Arounian said President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement “created significant exposure” to the supplier base of Wayfair, and sees eBay as better positioned.
    - Stellantis (STLA) shares are lower after about 6,000 workers in Canada were idled by day 1 of US tariffs. It comes along with reports of 900 US jobs cuts and Fitch downgrading the company's debt from BBB+ to BBB.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Alibaba (BABA) shares are down after China announced retaliatory 34% tariffs on US goods. Beijing will impose a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting April 10, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Chinese authorities said they will start a probe into medical CT X-ray tubes imported from the US and India, and halt imports of poultry products from two American companies.
    - Apple (APPL) shares dipped after the company lost over $300 billion yesterday, second largest drop in market cap for any company ever. The drop comes as the company has moved its supply chain away from China but to countries that face high tariffs.
    - Stellantis (STLA) shares are lower after about 6,000 workers in Canada were idled by day 1 of US tariffs. It comes along with reports of 900 US jobs cuts and Fitch downgrading the company's debt from BBB+ to BBB.
    - Nordstrom (JWN) is lower this morning after Citi downgraded the stock from hold to sell. The stock was shielded from a bigger fall yesterday because there's a pending deal from the Nordstrom family and Mexican retailer Liverpool to take the company over at $24.25. Citi sees little upside, but a larger chance of the deal falling apart.

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  • On this episode of Stock Movers:
    - Banks is the worst-performing sector in Europe for a second day as the global equity rout continued on fears economic growth will be hit by US tariffs. The Stoxx 600 Banks Index sinks 4% as of 9:27 a.m. CET, extending weekly declines to 10%, the steepest drop since March 2023 The sector is still up 12% YTD. Deutsche Bank, Banco De Sabadell are down more than 5%
    - KKR has walked away from a private equity consortium discussing a takeover of Gerresheimer AG, the German maker of packaging for drugs and cosmetics, people familiar with the matter said. The buyout firm had teamed up with Warburg Pincus to pursue a deal for Gerresheimer, Bloomberg News reported in March. Warburg Pincus is still working to see if it can reach a deal, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.
    - Danone shares rise as much as 2.7% to hit their highest level in over five years after analysts at Morgan Stanley said they now prefer the stock over Nestle, arguing the French food company is trading at an “unwarranted” discount to its Swiss peer given its more attractive setup.

     

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