Hardika Singh
Economic Strategist, Market Intelligence
Hardika writes original economics and markets analysis for the daily note First to Market, weekly note Your Week Ahead, and bi-weekly note Signal From Noise. She specializes in translating complex topics into digestible insights for vertical videos on LinkedIn and TikTok, media appearances, and opinion articles in publications. She learned how to do that well when she analyzed and reported on financial markets for the Wall Street Journal. There, she was also in charge of writing the newspaper’s daily Central Banking Pro newsletter and frequently appeared on CBS News to help investors understand the latest market moves. In her current role, she appears on NYSE TV and is quoted in the New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, Barron's, Axios, MarketWatch, The Street, Business Insider, and more.
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Weekend Alpha
Relentlessly Surging Oil Prices Give Investors a Reality Check
The S&P 500 lost 0.6% this week to 7,411.96 points. Only three out of the 11 sectors were in the red: communication services, consumer discretionary,...
First to Market
The World Has More Trillion-Dollar-Plus Companies Than Ever
This year Elon Musk briefly became the world’s first trillionaire, and it’s also the year where the total number of trillion-dollar plus companies across the...
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Super Micro Shows Which AI Names Might Have Room to Snap Back
Super Micro Computer’s strong rebound drove the tech sector’s snapback on Wednesday, possibly foreshadowing good news for the incoming picks and shovels earnings.
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Stock Declines Accelerate After Chinese Startup Releases New AI Model
The S&P 500 lost 1.6% to 7,457.69 points, with seven out of the 11 sectors finishing in the red this week. Energy stocks were the...
First to Market
Can Earnings Season Revive a Lethargic Stock Market?
The S&P 500 keeps chugging along, but it doesn’t feel like that. Investors are hoping corporate earnings can help there.
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Stocks Are Going Berserk but the Stock Market Isn’t
For all the chaos going on in the stock market, the overall index appears rather calm. While that has historically been a bad mix for...
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Unwrapping The Sustainability of the K-Shaped Economy
A K-shaped economy is concerning, but signs suggest that it could continue to widen and yet still might not necessarily be the demise of America. ...
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What to Make of Meta’s Plans to Potentially Rent Its AI?
Meta is working on a plan for a cloud infrastructure business that will allow it to rent out its AI computing power and models.
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Why the Dow Jones Industrial Average Beat the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite in June
The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s propensity to exclude hot tech stocks paid off in June, allowing the stodgy, old index to surge past its peers...
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The Smallest of Small Caps Are Winning
The Russell Microcap index has gained 25% this year, beating the small-cap benchmark Russell 2000’s gain of 20%, which just posted its best first half...
