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From a technical standpoint some downside at this juncture may be what is needed to shake things up and create better trading conditions into earnings.

The money center bank's reduced forecast for net interest income amid geopolitical pressures is curbing investor enthusiasm.

Here are three key things to watch as the bank earnings roll in.

Jim Cramer would like investors to leave the bubble talk in the bathtub. Here's why he says there's more to these new market highs than the Fed.

It looks like a good time to tighten up and protect profits.

Who's paying the tariffs, or taxes in the trade war?

Bank of America economists last week had projected that the Federal Reserve wouldn't cut interest rates at a meeting later this month - a remarkable out-of-consensus call by the second-largest U.S. bank. But after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony on Wednesday before the House of Representatives, the economists now say there's little point in resisting the central bank's apparent resolve to move forward with a reduction.

As long as the Fed stays dovish the market probably doesn't care too much about other matters.

This appears to be one of the most spirited debates within the Fed in several years.

Here are three factors making Caterpillar a potential buy.