Good Friday morning traders and investors of the r/stocks sub! Welcome to the final trading day of the week. Here are your pre-market movers & news on this Friday, May the 5th, 2023-

Stock futures rebound ahead of jobs report as Apple and PacWest gain: Live updates

Stock futures rose Friday after tech giant App

At&t is doing so bad is it ever goings to go back up I keep seeing stuff about it's likely to file bankruptcies and stocks could go as low as $4 a share. I've lost 31% thoughts? I've got $175 in it I've lost $55. There's 121in it now I'm newer to stocks. My first year playing with stocks I made about 17% profit. This last year I'm down 20%. With dividends I'm breaking even. Thoughts? Oh and should I sell my at&t?

I have searched this sub previously for a good investment book. After reading a few threads, I bought "The Simple Path to Wealth" by JL Collins and The Boglehead's Guide to Investing by Mel Lindauer. They were highly praised in many threads.

After reading both, I did not learn much from them. Don't get me wrong, these were good books but could have simply watched a five minute video about why investing into Vanguard funds is a good idea.

Huge beat all around for jobs growth in April and once again showing how resilient the jobs market is.

This certainly puts the Federal Reserve in a sticky situation, with jobs and wage growth still hot, inflation most likely won't be coming down as quickly as hoped. Given how badly Regional Banks are feeling the pain right now, further hikes may not be possible.

Global Payments Inc. ($GPN) investors are due to receive a payment of $0.25 per share on 30th of June. This payment means the dividend yield will be 1.0%, which is below the average for the industry.

Global Payments Doesn't Earn Enough To Cover Its Payments

If it is predictable over a long period, even low dividend yields can be attractive. Even though Global Payments isn't generating a profit, it is generating healthy free cash flows tha

Devoting 2% to selling CSP. Premiums are good and I am long in the space. If they are assigned then I am just selling CC. Anyone else doing the same? I rather just hold options instead of shares if I could and magnify my gains.

Square said Cash App had 53 million "monthly transacting actives" as of March 30, up from 46 million a year earlier.

Net revenue rose 26% to $4.99 billion.

EPS: $0.40 v $0.31 estimate Revenue: $4.99B v $4.58B estimate

Cash App generated gross profit of $931 million, up 49% year over year, and Square generated gross profit of $770 million, up 16% year over year.

This is the daily discussion, so anything stocks related is fine, but the theme for today is on fundamentals, but if fundamentals aren't your thing then just ignore the theme and/or post your arguments against fundamentals here and not in the current post.

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Anyone noticed how financially stupid people are in the stock forum? There's a lot of dumb people that think things will just continue to go as they always had the bull run is over. The media is lying just how bad it is.

JEPI is giving monthly dividends for 10% APR. Dont exactly know how they do it but for this economic outlook that percentage is great. If you can invest monthly into it for a few years then it auto invests really.

What is possible downsides? If the economy is doing good, then it pays higher dividends. If the economy is doing poorly as expected, then it is even better comparatively to other etfs. Stock price is mostly stable and dividend payments are also