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Enjoy The Bounceback… And Get Ready For Another Smack

Enjoy The Bounceback… And Get Ready For Another Smack

Image Source: Unsplash Markets were up strongly today, bouncing back from this week’s beatdown.But here’s the thing. Correlation is high and still increasing. I’ve talked a lot about this recently. Correlation is tricky stuff. When you see stocks moving with no headline or hard, identifiable event driving that move – that’s correlation.And what it takes up, […]
Dividends By The Numbers In December 2024 And 2024-Q4

Dividends By The Numbers In December 2024 And 2024-Q4

Image credit: SyedaAfreen1810443, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Dividends for the U.S. stock market ended 2024 on a positive note. Measured against their year-over-year comparables, the number of favorable dividend changes in December 2024 outweighed the number of unfavorable changes, giving us a net change of +5.The dividend situation becomes more complex when we get deeper […]
Exa Wants To Be The Google For AI

Exa Wants To Be The Google For AI

Image Source: Unsplash The increased adoption of AI has led to a surge of new use cases across all industries. One such interesting use-case is being developed by San Francisco-based Exa which is trying build a search engine for AI. Exa’s Offerings Exa was founded in 2021 by Harvard alumni and good friends, Will Bryk and […]
AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Jan. 3

AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Jan. 3

Photo by Nicholas Cappello on Unsplash Technical and cycle analysis, and market commentary.Video Length: 02:02:36More By This Author:AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Dec. 20 AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Dec. 13 AskSlim Market Week – Friday, Nov. 29
Stocks Snap Skids, Pick Up First Win Of 2025

Stocks Snap Skids, Pick Up First Win Of 2025

Stocks picked up their first win of 2025 today, breaking various losing streaks in the process. The Dow added 339 points to halt a four-day skid, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each posted gains of 1% or more to snap five-day losing streaks. Tech stocks propped up Wall Street today, with Nvidia (NVDA) logging its best […]
ISM Manufacturing Index Improves In December

ISM Manufacturing Index Improves In December

Unusually this month, the ISM manufacturing index was delayed one day after the first business day of the month. In other words, it was released this morning instead of yesterday.In any event, a refresher that because manufacturing is of diminishing importance to the economy, and was in deep contraction both in 2015-16 and again in […]
Ranked: Major Media Companies, By Profit Margin

Ranked: Major Media Companies, By Profit Margin

This chart compares the net profit margins of six big media companies where media and entertainment is a core business venture.All data sourced from various company reports with the latest full-year figures. Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery follow the calendar year, and figures are as of 2023.Sony’s earnings are from their financial year ended March, 2024. Additionally, a conversion […]
3 Reasons Why LUNR Is The Top Space Stock To Hold In 2025

3 Reasons Why LUNR Is The Top Space Stock To Hold In 2025

Image courtesy of 123rf.com Despite a 2.1% correction over the last 30 days, the S&P 500 (SPX) index is still strong. At 4.53, its price-to-book (P/B) ratio remains at the level of the dot-com bubble burst of March 2000.Yet, Intuitive Machines (LUNR) stock is still strengthening, gaining 46% value in the same market correction period. In […]
Top Risk Factors To Look Out For 2025

Top Risk Factors To Look Out For 2025

Image Source: Pixabay What risks will shape the global economy in 2025? In this video, we explore the top 10 risk factors investors and policymakers must prepare for in 2025.Discover how global debt, inflation trends, climate chaos, and cyber threats could disrupt markets and economies worldwide. Learn about the critical warning signs in emerging markets, the […]
How Close Silver Squeeze Came To Breaking The Market

How Close Silver Squeeze Came To Breaking The Market

Image Source: Pixabay Back in 2021, the silver market had an event that came to be known as the Silver Squeeze.Which led to a brief spike in the price, and a surge in investment demand, that 2 months later would lead the LBMA to say ‘had demand in iShares continued at the frenetic rate of late-January/early […]