Dow Falls Triple Digits; Nasdaq Pops Ahead Of Nvidia Earnings 5 THINGS TO KNOW TODAY COMMODITY PRICES POP ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR DEVELOPMENTS
The Nasdaq and S&P 500 scored healthy wins Tuesday, rising ahead of a highly-anticipated earnings report from Nvidia (NVDA). The Dow dropped 120 points for a fourth-straight loss, after global tensions resurfaces amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Elsewhere, Treasury prices rose and yields fell traders cycled into safe haven assets, and the Cboe Volatility […]
Reflections On Investing : Government Debt And Investing
Image Source: Pixabay As Herb Stein “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop”. The current growth of government debt is unsustainable. How will stop? And what does that mean for investors?Video Length: 00:07:06More By This Author:Reflections On Investing : Stocks And Wealth Creation Reflections On Investing: The Equity Risk Premium Investor Memo Q3 2024: […]
Motor Vehicle Sales: How Much Is Real, How Much Is Fiction, What About EVs?
Data from Commerce Department, chart by Mish. How Much of the Recent Surge is Real?The CarDealershipGuy on X comments … [NEWS] New vehicle inventory is surging 26.4% YoY: But demand is barely budging. Why? New car prices are stuck at elevated levels… For 13 straight months, new car list prices have hovered around $49K. And while sub-$30K […]
What To Do After The Worst Week For Healthcare Stocks Since March 2020?
depositphotos Worse week for Healthcare Stocks. What you can do? Nothing wait just for volatility to settle down and look to other portfolio sectors to invest. Nibble on your favorite dividend paying large cap biopharma. Take tax losses on your losers. Look for other great health science stocks within MEDtech. As we mentioned earlier this month large […]
Will The Mysterious 17 Year Cycle Continue?
The picture on the stock markets in Europe and the US is an exciting one. But before we discuss the individual charts, a few brief words to explain the following indicators:The Smart Investors Action (SIA) shows how the big investors behave in the background. They are responsible for the trend and usually trade over several […]
Sector Neutrality – An Essential Mechanism Within The S&P 500 ESG Leaders Index
The S&P 500® ESG Leaders Index seeks to provide a measurement of U.S. equities while incorporating ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) factors.1 The index maintains similar industry weights to the S&P 500 while implementing stricter ESG eligibility criteria.A common misconception is that all ESG indices remove or underweight sectors deemed environmentally damaging, such as Energy or Utilities. However, removing […]
3 Stocks That Make Sense For Value Investors To Buy Now
Image courtesy of 123rf.com The underlying dynamic of the stock market is that people not only perceive the value of a company differently, but they speculatively count on other people to do so. This translates to a dichotomy between intrinsic value and perceived value. Therefore, value investors prioritize a company’s intrinsic value, preferably one that is currently mispriced to […]
The Markets Are Screaming To Buy This, Not Stocks
Image Source: Pexels It’s easy to do… every day we are inundated with thousands of pieces of information. And if you’re an active investor, there is no shortage of opinions from the mainstream media, social media, and even financial advisors as to what you should own.However, sometimes it’s best to simply block out all that stuff […]
U.S. State Payrolls Numbers Confirm The Cooling Jobs Narrative
Headline non-farm payrolls were significantly weaker than expected in October. Today’s state data show that this wasn’t entirely due to temporary strike- and hurricane-related factors and that there is a broader cooldown in play. This suggests to us that a December Federal Reserve interest rate cut remains more likely than not.Image Source: Pexels State jobs numbers indicate […]
Can Nvidia Live Up To Lofty Expectations?
This quarter’s “earnings season” unofficially comes to an end this week now that Walmart (WMT) has reported its numbers and NVIDIA (NVDA) is on tap to report tomorrow after the close. After NVDA, the number of earnings reports per day will slow to a trickle for the next six weeks before the next earnings season begins in […]
