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Dow Jones

Dow Jones Today Pushes Higher as Chinese Trade Envoys Leave Washington Empty-Handed

The Dow Jones Today jumped over sixty points this morning as U.S and Chinese negotiators failed to make significant headway in an ongoing trade dispute.

According to a statement from Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, the two delegations "exchanged views on how to achieve fairness, balance and reciprocity in the economic relationship" but did not come to any agreement on new terms.

Technology

These Shares Are Why the Nasdaq Will Clobber the Rest in 2017

As I predicted in my 2017 outlook a few weeks ago, tech is off to a screaming start to the year. The tech-centric Nasdaq is up close to 3.2% versus the S&P 500's 1.45%.

Here's the key: As the years go by, Silicon Valley will be providing more and more of the technology that's becoming critical to our society's existence, like broadband and mobile communications, wearable tech, sensors, virtual and augmented reality, and medtech.

But here's the thing. Virtually none of that can exist without the fundamental component I'm going to tell you about right now. It's absolutely indispensable to innovation, miniaturization, mobilization, and utilization.

This little part enables the global spread and adoption of technology – and you bet it enables massive tech profits, too.

So the play I have in mind has lots of upside wired in...