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The Apple Watch presents new challenges, but Apple has been managing a lifestyle brand for some time, Tavis McCourt tells CNBC.

Count Standard & Poor’s top market expert among the bulls who have recently sounded a decidedly cautious tone.

Stocks were trading moderately higher at midday Monday as they attempted to recover from Friday’s sell-off. Volume was trading significantly lighter in the stock market today. The Nasdaq rose 0.1%; the S&P 500 gained 0.3% and the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 0.7%. Apple (AAPL) was up 1% ahead of its 10 a.m. Pacific Time event, where it is expected to announce new details of the Apple Watch.

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Small investors are starting to cash in on this bull market, six years after one of the most powerful uptrends ever began.

One of the Kremlin’s most vocal critics, Bill Browder, believes Putin’s ultimate downfall could come at the hands of the unfolding economic crisis.

Speculators pared their net-long position in West Texas Intermediate crude by 19 percent in the week ended March 3, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show.

McDonald’s reported a horrific sales month for February, especially in the U.S., where same-store sales slumped 4%, a far-worse result than analysts had estimated.