Walmart Inc. (WMT)

As the Covid crisis goes on, you will see fewer retail options, less vibrant cities, shuttered restaurants and the big to get bigger.

Plus, a closer look at Thursday's late-day rally and at actions impacting the nation's big banks.

This one is a tough chase, so I would have to consider put sales for an entry right now.

Are equity markets still in a confirmed uptrend? It depends on which index you look at.

While Shopify's platform and partnerships make it a disruptive force, Amazon Prime and Amazon's warehouse and logistics infrastructure are still one of a kind.

When New York was driven to its knees, Walmart stepped up. Big time. Eternal respect.

Rather than a direct competitor, FMCI is acquiring a complement to Beyond Meat in the plant-based food category.

TGT has boosted its dividend by 3%, the company's latest increase over 53 consecutive years of boosts.

One part of the e-commerce food chain that is grossly overlooked by investors is logistics real estate.

What might change my mind? The ability to reestablish the dividend. That would get me fired up.

Futures were down overnight after another day of hot trading volumes on Monday, while analysts are bumping up price targets on Amazon.

Profit from 'the changing of the guard' by seeing where things are going, not where they are right now.

Their partnerships with Target and Walmart continue to perform well.

Let's hope that the violence subsides, the valid voices of peaceful protesters are heard, and the lack of social distancing protocols does not lead to a resurgence in the spread of the virus.

I'll be taking at least a third of my long off ahead of the numbers this afternoon.

So what's the narrative? Simple: the recession is ending, it turned out to be a V recession and recovery after all.

With the U.S. opening up for business, expect a short-term shift to old fashioned brick and mortar sales. TJX should benefit in a big way.

VZ is on top of an important support decision, and let's check on the chart of Walmart.

Adjustments people and companies have made due to the pandemic are likely to outlast the virus in some measure, and those firms that don't adapt face trouble.

Target and Walmart have become online grocery destinations, which could be an advantage even after the pandemic loses steam.

The truly impressive performance metrics are some of the same lines that impressed me so much at Walmart.

It's amazing, a celebration of small business creativity unleashed by a pandemic that will never be snuffed and this wave deserves our patronage and our money.

Picking through the companies that either maintained or boosted their dividends, we would find a few of these characteristics.

I like WMT, and following an earnings related trade, I'll repurchase if the shares sink back into the low $120's.

If there wasn't so much skepticism, there wouldn't be so much strength.

Watching Moderna, Microsoft and FedEx as risk continues to be a central market theme, despite Monday's rally.