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by SIACharts.com Southwest Airlines Company (LUV) currently ranks 15th out of 505 companies in the SIA S&P 500 Index Report, supported by a SMAX score of 10 out of 10 and a position in the Favoured Green Zone. Its advance of 226 positions over the past month and 251 over the past quarter highlights a meaningful improvement in its standing within the index.

by AI investment is colliding with constrained supply—raising costs in chips, power, construction and skilled labor, and adding to near-term inflation pressure. Policymakers may need to lean against this demand by keeping rates higher to prevent second-round inflation and maintain credibility. AI may still prove disinflationary over time, but investors should prepare for the inflationary cost of building it first. The AI boom goes from strength to strength.

by Rick Friedman and John Thorndike, GMO LLC Despite strong local returns, a global energy shock, rapidly rising rates, and elevated geopolitical risks, Japanese equities offer significant upside driven by deep-seated structural reforms, improving fundamentals, and attractive valuation opportunities. Executive Summary For the last eight years, GMO’s Asset Allocation team has held a differentiated view on Japanese equities.

by Lance Roberts, RIA Milton Friedman’s famous one-liner that anchors half the inflation debates on financial television leaves out the part where the actual economics live. Once you put it back in, the doomist case gets a lot smaller. Per Bylund recently wrote a sharp piece for The Daily Economy arguing that CPI and GDP have become Goodhart’s Law in action. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measure. He has a point, and we’ll come back to it.

by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Last week, I wrote that “The Fed shifted its monetary stance toward tightness.

by AdvisorAnalyst.com Editorial Team J.P. Morgan's Michael Cembalest doesn't reach for dramatic language lightly. When the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy opens his note by calling out a "staggering contradiction" at the heart of Anthropic's newest model, advisors and investors should stop and pay attention.

This isn't a story about seven stocks. It's a story about what happens when advisors and investors finally look past them. That's the core message running through Janus Henderson Investors' Market GPS Mid-Year 2026 Investment Outlook1. Richard Bernstein (formerly Richard Bernstein Advisors), Global Head of Macro and Customized Investing, makes the case that the second half of 2026 is a genuine reset opportunity.

by Denise Chisholm, Director of Quantitative Market Strategy, Fidelity Investments There are plenty of ways to measure sentiment right now, and a handful are already flashing what you’d call “bullish” conditions - especially those tied to flows or more institutional positioning. But one measure, capturing a much broader swath of market participants, has remained stubbornly pessimistic. The AAII survey, which tracks individual investors, is still sitting in the bottom decile of its history.

by SIACharts.com LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (LTM) appears to be exhibiting strong technical characteristics, supported by a SMAX score of 10 out of 10, which may indicate broad confirmation across multiple SIA measures. Within the SIA International ADR Index Report, the stock is currently ranked 53rd out of 505 and positioned in the Favoured Green Zone, suggesting that relative strength remains constructive within its peer group.