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Solar Stocks Flash Major Technical Breakout As Tariff Talk Escalates Solar stocks are showing a clear technical shift, breaking above a well-defined downtrend after more than five years of sustained pressure. UBS analyst Catherine Gordon is attributing the surge in solar stocks to falling yields and renewed policy momentum. A potential Section 232 tariff announcement in mid-to-late June is adding fuel to the rally, with First Solar leading the charge. The UBS Solar basket (UBXXSOL) is now up 40% year-to-date. Gordon provided more context on what's powering UBXXSOL higher: Clean tech names are outperforming...

G7 Protesters Smash Windows, Set Tesla On Fire In Geneva Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Protesters smashed windows at a United Nations agency and set fire to a Tesla vehicle on June 14 during a protest march in Geneva, Switzerland, against the holding of the G7 summit, just across the border in the French town of Evian-les-Bains. A Tesla car burns during a protest against the G7 summit, across the border in France, in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 14, 2026. Denis Balibouse/Reuters Around 20,000 people took part in the march...

Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Bet On "Tax Alpha" Tax alpha — the practice of improving investment returns by reducing taxes — has become one of the fastest-growing strategies on Wall Street, according to Bloomberg.  Rather than focusing only on beating the market, many investment firms now design portfolios to minimize taxes, often producing higher after-tax returns even if pre-tax performance is similar to traditional strategies. After years of rising markets, many wealthy Americans hold large unrealized gains in stocks and funds. To address the resulting tax burden, asset managers have developed a wide...