Shradha Dinesh
speaker
157 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Shradha Dinesh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 2.
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Overall, the Nasdaq was up about 0.1% for the week.
The Dow fell just below 0.6% for the week, and the S&P 500 settled up at roughly 0.3% for the week.
It's not just AI stocks moving the S&P 500 higher.
Old school energy companies are joining tech to push the index to new records.
A series of disruptions from the Iran war and Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure to China's restrictions on fuel exports has pulled millions of barrels of refined products off global markets, leaving consumers scrambling to locate alternative supplies.
As a result, refining margins, the difference between the cost of crude and the value of the fuels produced from it, have surged.
With Strait of Hormuz flows unlikely to normalize anytime soon, and repairs to Gulf refineries targeted by Iranian attacks expected to take months, the market could remain tight, boosting those margins.
Globally, they're expected to remain high for the rest of the year.
While that's likely to be welcome news for oil majors come earnings season, it's bad for drivers at the pump.
The U.S.
average gasoline price topped $4 a gallon this year, up from $3.16 a year ago.
It's been a great quarter for earnings.
Both earnings growth and the so-called surprise ratio, that's the share of companies exceeding analyst expectations, are sitting near historic highs.
WSJ investing columnist Spencer Jacob wrote about how that seems to be creating a strong sense of optimism among companies and how it's being reflected in their guidance.
Analysts at Bespoke Investment Group say the rolling average of positive to negative earnings guidance is now near a four-year high for the companies they track.
That's especially notable because companies are typically cautious about raising guidance since the market tends to punish them for falling short.
In fact, the only time this ratio was higher was during the pandemic recovery period.
And there's a new face joining the S&P 500.
Just two years after going public, social media platform Reddit will join the index this coming Tuesday.
It'll replace real estate investment trust Avalon Bay Communities, which is merging with fellow S&P 500 member Equity Residential, creating an open spot.
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