General Motors Vs. Tesla Stock: Which Is The Better Investment After Q4 Earnings?
Image: BigstockGeneral Motors (GM – Free Report) and Tesla (TSLA – Free Report) highlighted an exciting earnings lineup this week after reporting their Q4 results on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.Heading into the next trading week, investors may be pondering which of these automakers could be the better investment. That said, here’s a review of General Motors and Tesla’s Q4 reports […]
Stablecoin Volumes Surpassed Visa & Mastercard Combined In 2024
Stablecoins, which play a major role in the global cryptocurrency ecosystem, saw massive adoption in 2024, with their transfer volumes beating those of both Visa and Mastercard combined.The annual stablecoin transfer volume reached $27.6 trillion last year, surpassing the combined volumes of Visa and Mastercard by 7.7%, according to a Jan. 31 report by crypto exchange CEX.io.As […]
Tariff News Sent The Market Swooning Into The Close
Image Source: PexelsIn this brief video, I review the conditions of the overall market as we kick off the historically/seasonally weak month of February. Have a wonderful rest of your weekend, and happy trading.00:05:17More By This Author:V-Ramp Blowoff Top Incoming?Overall Market Update And Reviewing Two Beautiful Setups From The Past WeekA Risk-Off Environment Followed The Strong Jobs Report: One […]
Counterparty Risk
Disruption is afoot at every turn. With due respect to a US Founding Farther, Ben Franklin, perhaps it is time to disrupt one of his most famous quips. “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes… and the move to the liquidity window when one expires.” But when it comes time to settle the […]
Top Picks For 2025: MicroStrategy
Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashMicroStrategy Inc. (MSTR), of Tysons Corner, Va., has been riding two of the most powerful growth trends in the market at the moment, with its large ownership of Bitcoin and its recent pivot to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance its business intelligence (BI), mobile software, and cloud-based services, writes Paul Dykewicz, editor of DividendInvestor.MicroStrategy is also one […]
Wall Street’s Top 10 Stock Calls This Week – Saturday, Feb. 1
Image Source: PixabayWhat has Wall Street been buzzing about this week? Here is a look at the top 5 buy calls and the top 5 sell calls made by Wall Street’s best analysts during the trading week of Jan. 27-31, 2025. First, here are the top 5 buy calls of the week. 1. Meta Platforms Upgraded to Buy […]
The Opium War In Reverse
Say you walk into a room with five other people: A Canadian real estate mogul A Sinaloan ranch hand A Hong Kong business tycoon with ties to the Chinese Communist Party A Vancouver port worker A street guy named “Skunk Boy” Which one would you guess is the drug dealer? Sadly, the answer might be […]
‘The Age Of Bubbles’
If you’re looking to understand what drove Nvidia shares to a record one-day loss of market cap on Monday, look no further. Jeffrey Emanuel wrote up the definitive analysis last weekend: “DeepSeek’s recent efficiency breakthrough, achieving comparable model performance at approximately 1/45th the compute cost, suggests the entire industry has been massively over-provisioning compute resources.” “Massive over-provisioning” […]
Natural Gas: Taking A Breather. Downtrend Continues
Natural gas on the Nymex had a negative week before closing 10% lower than the previous one at $3.07. EIA reported on Thursday a bullish, nonetheless, draw of 321 Bcf in working underground stocks for the week ended January 24. Total inventory is currently at 2,571 Bcf, 5.3% lower y/y, 4.1% below the 5-year average.We have already taken […]
DeepSeek Accelerated America’s AI “Manhattan Project”
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on UnsplashEarlier this week I flew from my home in Florida to attend The Microcap Conference in Atlantic City, which I’m returning from today.As I boarded the flight, I was thinking about Monday’s $1 trillion market meltdown and how the big AI companies weren’t the only ones who were hit hard by the news […]
