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Here’s what investors should watch when Main Street Capital Corporation reports earnings.

For 6 months, investors have been buying the idea – pitched by any and every status-quo-sustaining talking head, politician, and central banker – that low oil prices are unequivocally good for America. This has manifested itself in retail stocks handily outperforming the S&P.

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Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that activist investor Nelson Peltz be voted onto DuPont’s board.

Heavyweights from Morgan Stanley, NYSE, Citadel, Barclays and more gathered at the Security Traders Association of New York 2015 and Traders has the pictures to prove it.

Whisper it, but the next challenge for financial markets and policymakers may not be deflation, but the remarkable surge in oil prices from the six-year low touched in January. Since then, Brent crude futures have risen 45 percent. These measures have ranged from interest rate cuts to bond-buying “quantitative easing” programmes. All have been in response to the fall in inflation rates and inflation expectations driven by the 60 percent collapse in oil prices over the latter part of last year.

Stocks soared to record highs with the Nasdaq closing last week at all-time highs. And according to one trader, the rally is just getting started.

Starbucks investors will want to take note of these key insights shared during the most recent earnings call.