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The 7 Largest Companies By Market Cap And Year-To-Date Gains – Sunday, July 28
Image Source: PexelsHere is a brief look at the 7 largest companies by market capitalization. Additionally, I have included the percentages of their gains on a year-to-date basis. Let’s dive into the numbers. Apple (AAPL) has a market cap of $3.34 trillion, with year-to-date gains of +13.2% Microsoft (MSFT) has a market cap of $3.16 trillion, with year-to-date gains of +13.1% Nvidia (NVDA) has a […]
Why Unilever PLC Stock Is A Buy
Image Source: PexelsAs part of our ongoing series, we will focus on one of the stocks from our stock screeners, and take a short look at why it’s a ‘buy’ based on key fundamentals. One of the cheapest stocks in our stock screeners is: Unilever PLC. Unilever PLC (UL) Unilever is a diversified personal-care (52% of 2022 sales by value), homecare […]
Pairs In Focus – Sunday, July 28
Image Source: Pixabay Gold Gold markets were very noisy over this past week, but things may turn around soon. The candlestick will likely end up being a hammer, and this tells me that there are buyers underneath, and that the uptrend will try to reassert itself. With this being the case, I suspect that this is a market that […]
AFK: An Africa ETF To Consider As Money Shifts To “The Rest Of The Market”
Image Source: PixabayThe tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged on Wednesday as two big names turned in disappointing report cards for the second quarter. But with a Fed interest rate cut likely in September, we continue to be positive on the equity markets, despite recent volatility. Consider the international stock fund VanEck Africa Index ETF (AFK), suggests Brian Kelly, editor of Money Letter.Google’s […]
Distractions, Selloff Worries, And The Week Ahead
Image Source: Pexels Time to Hedge We’ve been operating with a negative S&P 500 signal for a few days, and we’ve seen a downward move in the market since the second week of July. The chatter is building that this week will deliver a wealth of selling from the Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA).Goldman Sachs projected that there […]
The Rotation Continues & One Sector Has Helped Fuel This Rotation
Welcome back, readers. Whew, what a week it was.If you were sleeping all week and did not witness the daily gyrations of the markets, you would wake up at the end of the week to see that most of the markets went nowhere. That is, except small-cap stocks (IWM). Here is a recap of each day […]
The Market’s On The Brink Of Change
Image Source: PixabayMarkets were higher on Friday, easing some of the pain inflicted throughout the week and rising by around 1%, with the S&P 500 down 83 basis points for the week. This week, it will be all about the data, central bank decisions, and earnings, which likely means that the bond market and currency movements will […]
The Huge Costs Behind The Olympic Games
Image Source: PixabayThe 2024 Summer Olympics are finally set to get underway in Paris amid some substantial safety concerns like ISIS threats and large-scale vandalism of France’s train network. These high-level issues have been momentarily distracting observers from another train wreck affecting most Olympic Games: cost overrun.Spending more than you have budgeted for has become the norm for host cities, but as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz […]
Drunken Schwab
Image Source: PixabayHere’s a new position for me: Charles Schwab (SCHW), which demonstrated a nice gap-close and shooting star on Friday. Beneath is the longer view, showing the stock’s tendency to top out.Here is a brief glance at the stock over the longer-term.More By This Author:The Money ShotOlympic Bargains And OverrunsSMCI: Nasdaq 100 Newcomer Loses Nearly Half Its […]
A Rough Couple Of Weeks
Image Source: PixabayIt’s been a rough couple of weeks in the market, as it recently experienced a short-term downtrend. However, the major indexes have held onto their longer-term uptrend so far.The QQQ was extended, so the pullback was definitely expected, but the correction was made more severe by the CrowdStrike problems. Now, the index tests the uptrend line while we […]
