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Market Talk – Wednesday, July 3

Market Talk – Wednesday, July 3

Image Source: Unsplash ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 506.07 points or 1.26% to 40,580.76 Shanghai decreased 14.64 points or -0.49% to 2,982.38 Hang Seng increased 209.43 points or 1.18% to 17,978.57 ASX 200 increased 21.70 points or 0.28% to 7,739.90 KOSPI increased 13.15 points or 0.47% to 2,794.01 […]
Equity ETFs Attract $20.9 Billion, Largest Weekly Intake Of 2024

Equity ETFs Attract $20.9 Billion, Largest Weekly Intake Of 2024

Image Source: Pexels During LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended June 26, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the eighth week in 10, adding a net $14.3 billion.This past week, money market funds (-$7.0 billion), tax-exempt bond funds (-$498 million), mixed-assets funds (-$297 million), and alternative […]
How To Buy Growth Stocks In An Economy That Isn’t Growing

How To Buy Growth Stocks In An Economy That Isn’t Growing

Image Source: Unsplash The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both hit record highs today – in a shortened, not-very-exciting trading session.But we’re also seeing numerous signs that the U.S. economy is starting to slow down. I think, if you look in the right places, we’re seeing really ominous signs of that dreaded beast, stagflation.And this is all before […]
Severe Weakness In The Latest Manufactured Goods Report

Severe Weakness In The Latest Manufactured Goods Report

Data from the full report on Manufacturers’ shipments and new orders. Chart by MishNew Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in May, up four consecutive months, increased $0.2 billion or 0.1 percent to $282.9 billion, unchanged from the previously published increase. This followed a 0.2 percent April increase. Transportation equipment, up three of the […]
Is Now The Turning Point For Tesla’s 2024?

Is Now The Turning Point For Tesla’s 2024?

Image courtesy of 123rf.com After lingering deep in the negative gains zone throughout the year, Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) is on the brink of a positive year-to-date performance. Presently priced at $241.82, TSLA stock is at the early January level, 12% above its 52-week average of $215.85 per share.The culprit for the positive reversal comes from Tesla’s Q2 […]
Service Sector Slowdown Adds To Worries On U.S. Growth Prospects

Service Sector Slowdown Adds To Worries On U.S. Growth Prospects

Image Source: Pexels Broad-based weakness in the ISM services index coupled with an upward trend in jobless claims suggests that the pieces are falling into place regarding a September interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The Fed is signalling just one cut this year, the consensus and market expects two, but we continue to see the […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Light Pre-Holiday Trade

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Light Pre-Holiday Trade

Wall Street took advantage of the light pre-holiday trade to run the stock indices up to new highs.How could they not? It’s what they do.The bigger banksters are covering themselves by warning of a stock market crash.It would not be surprising to see a thorough rinse follow such a ham-handed wash.Gold and silver rebounded strongly from their […]
FOMC Minutes Show “Vast Majority” Expect Economy To Cool, See Deflationary Effects Of AI

FOMC Minutes Show “Vast Majority” Expect Economy To Cool, See Deflationary Effects Of AI

Since the last FOMC statement on June 12, oil, gold, stocks, the dollar, and even some of the bond market are higher (in price)…Source: Bloomberg The shorter end of the curve is now lower in yield since the last FOMC, but the long-end still higher (even with today’s yield tumble)…Source: Bloomberg The US macro picture […]
Pure-Play Fabless Semiconductor Stocks Up 14%, On Average, In June; Now Up 39% YTD

Pure-Play Fabless Semiconductor Stocks Up 14%, On Average, In June; Now Up 39% YTD

 Image Source: Unsplash An Introduction There are 5 segments in the semiconductor value chain whose pure-play constituent stock performances are tracked and commented on by munKNEE in its latest hyperlinked articles below. The fabless semiconductor companies category is analyzed in this article and is one of the 5 and the other 4 are semiconductor foundries; equipment and […]
Resilient But Flaky Conditions Set To Continue

Resilient But Flaky Conditions Set To Continue

Image Source: Pexels Last week I said, “Broad conditions remain sub-optimal and plum AAA Big Money Footprint setups remain thin on the ground”.That remains the case this week. Yes, there are a couple of interesting setups, and I’m so grateful that our setup requirements help differentiate the wheat from the chaff. Not just that, but they […]