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Have Equity Investors Been Right To Rotate From Active To Passive?

Have Equity Investors Been Right To Rotate From Active To Passive?

Image Source: Pexels Last year, UK investors redeemed £23bn from equity mutual funds and ETFs—the second highest on record, surpassed only by 2022. However, this doesn’t tell the whole tale, as actively managed funds shed £24.13m while index-tracking funds saw modest inflows of £525m.This reflects the growth in passive assets across the market, which have grown […]
Deepmind Cofounder To Lead A New AI Unit At Microsoft

Deepmind Cofounder To Lead A New AI Unit At Microsoft

Image Source: Pixabay Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) just hired the cofounder of DeepMind – an artificial intelligence startup that Google bought in 2014. Its shares are up nearly 1.0% at writing. Suleyman also cofounded an AI startup called Inflection AI Mustafa Suleyman will now serve as the chief executive of Microsoft AI. It’s been more than […]
It’s Time To Take Profits On Homebuilder Stocks

It’s Time To Take Profits On Homebuilder Stocks

Image Source: Unsplash Homebuilder stocks have been on a tear, handing investors some tremendous gains over the past two years.Hopefully, you’ve been one of those investors!Two years ago, I highlighted this area of the market — despite the fact that most investors were avoiding these stocks like the plague. The fear was that higher interest rates would cut […]
It Is The End Of An Era For Negative Interest Rates

It Is The End Of An Era For Negative Interest Rates

Yen. Image Source: Pixabay The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate for the first time in 17 years today, as the last central bank to exit from a regime of negative interest rates. Denmark, Sweden Switzerland, and the other eurozone members introduced negative rates after the 2008 financial crisis to boost economic growth. The European […]
Powell Could Spoil The Fun As Stocks Coil Near All-Time Highs

Powell Could Spoil The Fun As Stocks Coil Near All-Time Highs

Image Source: Pixabay We’re seeing some powerful sector rotation just under the surface of the market… There are huge opportunities to profit now in energy, basic materials, the industrials, and consumer staples. That’s the good news.The perhaps not-so-great news is that we’re now seeing the kind of price action typically witnessed in the later stages of […]
MicroStrategy Now Owns 1.02% Of All BTC, But Is MSTR Stock A Buy?

MicroStrategy Now Owns 1.02% Of All BTC, But Is MSTR Stock A Buy?

Image courtesy of 123rf.com On Tuesday, Michael Saylor announced the acquisition of another 9,245 BTC worth around $623 million at a purchase price of $67,382 per BTC. This brings MicroStrategy’s (Nasdaq: MSTR) total Bitcoin holdings to 214,246 BTC at an average price of $35,160.After this week’s price pullback, Bitcoin’s year-to-date return is 42%, while MSTR stock doubled that […]
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Chart Analysis

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Chart Analysis

Image Source: Pexels Bob Lang gives a technical analysis of the stock chart for LVMH.Video Length: 00:03:13More By This Author:How To Spot A Change In Stock Market Direction FedEx Corp Chart Analysis Is A Stock Market Downturn Coming?
Visualizing The Biggest Companies On Major Stock Exchanges

Visualizing The Biggest Companies On Major Stock Exchanges

With many companies nearing or surpassing the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone, we’ve put together a graphic that visualizes the five largest companies trading on the Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and international exchanges.These figures come from Companiesmarketcap.com and are as of March 12, 2024. Biggest Companies on the Nasdaq The Nasdaq is largely dominated by […]
Important Semi Failure

Important Semi Failure

Image Source: Unsplash Bulls were counting on Jensen Huang to supercharge the bull market into a whole new chapter yesterday afternoon, by making a speech about the super-expensive, super-fast, super-huge new computing products Nvidia was announcing. It didn’t work. NVDA, SMCI, SMH, and QQQ are all down, and AMD, a vitally important component of the semi/AI […]
Softs Report – Tuesday, March 19

Softs Report – Tuesday, March 19

Photo by Trisha Downing on Unsplash COTTON General Comments: Cotton closed a little higher yesterday in moderate volume trading. It is too early to plant in Texas but the heat and dry weather raises concerns about production potential later in the growing season and blackened soils might not permit much planting, anyway. The demand news has been solid […]