Best Stock Market Picks 2025

And, United Airlines partners with Starlink.

January 06, 2025

Today is Monday, January 6, 2025.

The Early Bird Index today is 82.77

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Best Stock Market Picks 2025

What are the most important stock market trends and stocks to pick in 2025? Top experts explain in a new episode of the Early Bird podcast.

Big Picture: The new Trump administration will play a major role in the stock market. Policies involving deportation, tariffs, and shrinking government spending could cause the economy to decrease and cause inflation to grow. Both would be bad for the market.

Also: Other big trends include companies trying to monetize artificial intelligence offerings and the impact of interest rates.

Early Bird’s Nest Egg Gains: Based on these trends, experts during the podcast listed several potential stock picks for 2024.

  • Increased cyber threats could be good for cybersecurity stocks. This includes CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), SentinelOne (NYSE: S), and the First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (Nasdaq CIBR).

  • Potential stagflation, which is low economic growth and higher inflation, could be good for property REITs and stocks involved in commodities, according to the experts.

  • Defensive stocks in the biotechnology and consumer staples sectors could be good during the second half of 2025.

Final Thoughts: What other specific stocks should investors buy now? And what stocks should investors avoid? Find out by listening to a new episode of the Early Bird podcast.

VaultCraft launches V2, TVL skyrockets above $100M

VaultCraft launches V2, partners with Safe, and secures $100M+ in Bitcoin

  • Matrixport, Asia’s leading crypto providers, commits $100M+ in Bitcoin

  • OKX Web3 to launch Safe Smart Vaults with $250K+ in rewards

Notables

Notable Earnings Today: Commercial Metals (NYSE: CMC).

Notable IPOs Today: N/A.

Notable Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns Ending Today: The Open Road (Honeycomb), Mother Road Brewing Company (StartEngine), Orbotics (StartEngine), Unbothered Foods (Wefunder).

Notable Economic Events Today: S&P Global Services PMI (9:45 a.m. ET), S&P Global Composite PMI (9:45 a.m. ET), Factory Orders (10:00 a.m. ET).

United Airlines Partners With Starlink

On Sunday, United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAL) announced an accelerated timeline to bring Wi-Fi from Starlink, the satellite company from SpaceX, to customers.

Details: The airline will test Starlink next month and officially bring it on a commercial flight in the spring. It will eventually be added to its entire fleet.

Background: Several other airlines have already announced partnerships with Starlink. Sunday’s announcement is notable because it is one of the big three major U.S. airlines.

Final Thoughts: United Airlines is building on its positive 2024. The stock jumped 129% in the last 12 months.

Dogecoin Slumps on Sunday

The price of Dogecoin declined about 3% on Sunday as most other cryptocurrency prices remained flat.

Final Thoughts: Dogecoin is now down 12% in the last 30 days, meaning the post-election rally is over.

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