Monthly dividend stocks offer more frequent payouts, but these 3 have unsustainable payouts.

On Tuesday, the UK's FTSE 100 index declined, dragged down by a sharp drop in Standard Chartered's shares following the announcement of its CFO's departure.

Correlating with their pleasant stock performances, both biotech firms are thought to have ended fiscal 2025 with high double-digit EPS growth.

Stocks are mostly higher midday, as investors move back into software names and other valuable market areas.

At €4.43 per share, Spotify topped Street estimates by an exciting “55%”, as social charges related to pesky Swedish payroll taxes that weighed on its stock last year, remained lower-than-expected in Q4.

The daily chart for spot Gold shows a broad uptrend that is holding above both the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at 4,637 and the 200-day EMA at 3,954, confirming the longer-term bullish structure.

Oil prices are up on geopolitical risks as well as strong US demand.

The labor market, by contrast, paints a weaker profile for economic activity.

Cisco shares rose after the company unveiled its new Silicon One G300 AI networking chip, signaling a deeper push into AI data center infrastructure.

Gold trades around $5,000 as markets await key U.S. data that could shift rate expectations.

AUDNZD continues higher within wave (C) after breaking above the 2022 highs, though the rally is now entering a late-stage resistance area near 1.1750–1.1800.

PRG Corporation Public Company Limited is a subsidiary of MBK PCL and one of Thailand’s largest rice manufacturers.

The Canadian bank significantly upped its gold price forecast from $4,500 in October. CIBC analysts extended their bullish forecast into 2027, projecting an average price of $6,500 next year.

Although the benchmark indices opened higher, they traded positively throughout the session and ultimately closed green.

Ituran Location & Control has declared and paid quarterly dividends since April 2013 and paid annual dividends beginning in  2004. The January 2026 Q dividend of $0.50 suggests $2.00 annual dividend for the coming year.

Nominally, retail sales were unchanged in December, after a downwardly revised +0.5% in November.

Markets are anticipating just a 1-in-5 chance of easing at the next FOMC meeting. 

After November’s strong rebound, economists expected retail sales to rise 0.4% month-over-month in December, but the data disappointed, showing no growth and marking the weakest year-over-year increase since September 2024.

The update says crypto markets are volatile and technically mixed, with some short-term rebound potential but bigger-picture risks still present, as traders watch key support and resistance levels.

The Broadcom stock price has rebounded in the past few days, moving from a low of $295 last week to $345 today as investors cheer the recent plans for AI spending.