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Big Decline But No Bad Breadth?

Big Decline But No Bad Breadth?

On Wednesday, the S&P 500 shed 2.3%. As we noted on X, that snapped a 356-trading day stretch without seeing a one-day decline of at least 2%. The major key to this weakness, which we detailed in last night’s Closer, was how the Magnificent 7 had a historically bad session given poor reactions to earnings of Tesla (TSLA) and Alphabet […]
Economy-Weather And Market Madness. The Corn & Ethanol Report

Economy-Weather And Market Madness. The Corn & Ethanol Report

We kicked off the day with Durable Goods Orders MoM, GDP Growth Rate QoQ Adv, Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation MoM, GDP Price Index QoQ Adv, Initial Jobless Claims, Continuing Jobless Claims, Core PCE Prices QoQ Adv, Durable Goods Orders ex Defense MoM, GDP Sales QoQ Adv, Jobless Claims 4-Week Average, Non Defense Goods Orders […]
CMG Is Cooked

CMG Is Cooked

Chipotle (CMG) is a great fast casual restaurant chain that is doing everything right – but there are limits to the multiple applied to a company that sells burritos. CMG has been one of the best stocks in the market for a long time culminating with a run up in its shares to nearly $3,500 […]
Eurozone Loan Growth Shows Signs Of Bottoming Out

Eurozone Loan Growth Shows Signs Of Bottoming Out

Image Source: Pixabay Tiny improvement in loan growth Broad money (M3) growth in the eurozone accelerated to 2.2% year-on-year in June 2024, from 1.5% in May. This reflected a stable annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households of  0.3%, while the annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations increased to 0.7% in June from 0.3% in […]
Bullish First Day For Ethereum ETF Inflows – Could This Upcoming ERC-20 Listing Benefit?

Bullish First Day For Ethereum ETF Inflows – Could This Upcoming ERC-20 Listing Benefit?

Image Source: Pixabay Ethereum ETFs are gaining momentum after launching on Tuesday, and analysts think this could be massive for Ether’s long-term success.In perfect timing, the new ERC-20 token WienerAI is closing out its presale and is set to make its exchange debut.  ETH ETFs Reshuffling But Analyst Brace For Long-Term Gains There is a lot […]
Meta Unveils Llama 3.1 Open-Source AI

Meta Unveils Llama 3.1 Open-Source AI

META has introduced Llama 3.1, its most advanced open-source AI model to date. Offering significant improvements over its predecessor, Llama 3.1 includes a longer context window (up to 128k), better language support, and advanced tools for data generation and model distillation. Developers will like this a lot, particularly in handling complex tasks and multilingual applications.Meta […]
Real GDP Rises 2.8 Percent In Advance Estimate, What About Recession?

Real GDP Rises 2.8 Percent In Advance Estimate, What About Recession?

Data from the BEA chart by Mish.Chart Notes Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI) are two measures of the same thing. Product produced should match sales and income. They do over time, but this is a large ongoing discrepancy (see next chart). Real Final Sales is the bottom line estimate of GDP. […]
Stocks Bouncing Back After Data Hints At ‘Soft Landing’

Stocks Bouncing Back After Data Hints At ‘Soft Landing’

Stocks are on the move midday, as Wall Street weighs an upbeat second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) reading with the recent tech sector selloff. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is up triple digits at last check, while the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) have both pared early morning losses and were last seen […]
Visa Stock Drops After Disappointing Earnings: Buy The Dip?

Visa Stock Drops After Disappointing Earnings: Buy The Dip?

Image Source: Unsplash A rare revenue estimate miss for Visa (NYSE: V) contributed to a mass selloff for the S&P 500 on Wednesday, with the payment processor’s stock price falling nearly 5% in response.The miss, Visa’s first since 2020, was only slight, with Q3 revenue up 10% to $8.9 billion versus estimates of $8.92 billion.Net income also rose 17% to […]
Gasless transactions go live on TON blockchain as new wallet standard launches

Gasless transactions go live on TON blockchain as new wallet standard launches

Key Takeaways The W5 smart wallet allows for gasless transactions using USDT and NOT. Users can execute up to 255 transactions simultaneously with the new wallet. The TON blockchain has implemented gasless transactions through the launch of the W5 smart wallet standard, developed by Tonkeeper and approved by the TON Core team. This new feature […]