Sunday, June 18, 2023
Countdown to ES Stock Market Downleg / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Monica_Kingsley
S&P 500 spike into options expiry Friday was predictably rejected, and tech led the daily reversal, joined by communications and discretionaries. This shot across the bow in the topping process (major top preceding lackluster summer culminating in Sep bottom) shows that Nasdaq wouldn‘t hesitate in leading the decline. That‘s the strength of passive investing in reverse – leading higher, and then leading lower.
This quad witching was a trial run, for I think the downtrend would establish itself within 2 weeks latest – and it wouldn‘t happen because of sharp deterioration in incoming data or proving that the mirage of avoiding recession is just that, a mirage. The market topping process thoroughly described a week ago would come from sheer overvaluation driven by AI FOMO that has taken stocks into extreme greed territory already – from realization thereof. Perhaps characteristically, while the bullish sentiment rises, stock funds are seeing outflows to bond funds.
Friday, June 16, 2023
GPN Stock Targeting $150 / Companies / Investing 2023
By: Nadeem_Walayat
GPN $99 - EGF +3%, +15%, P/E 10, F5.2
The unloved or even hated financial sector is ripe for a turnaround. GPN is on the launch pad pending a break of a previous high at $114 to get the ball rolling. Target of $150 would represent a 50% advance on the current price. I am locked and loaded 172% invested.
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Fed Rate Hold is a Game-changer for the Price of Gold! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2023
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Yesterday’s FOMC and the following press conference were groundbreaking. Rates stayed, but Fed said about raising them twice this year = no U-turn!
This is a game-changer because so many investors were still believing in a quick, dovish U-turn. And those dreams were just dispelled. The fact that rates were not hiked yesterday doesn’t matter as much as the fact that their expected future path is still to the upside.
While the core CPI didn’t move recently, inflation is moving down. With inflation moving down and interest rates going higher, what does that imply?
Friday, June 16, 2023
Test-Drive This Go-To Global Forecasting Service / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2023
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Do you ever just feel completely run-ragged with all the choices and decisions you're presented with daily? I know I do.
What insurance carrier? What doctor? What school? What... the list is endless.
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Friday, June 16, 2023
US Interest Rate A Pause Like Nonother / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Michael_Pento
The Bank of Canada paused its rate hiking cycle in January but then hiked rates at its last meeting. The
Royal Bank of Australia paused in April but then had to start hiking again in June. The Fed also paused at
its June meeting or at least skipped a rate hike. This was the case even though core inflation rose 0.4%
month over month from April to May and was still up 5.3% from a year ago.
Friday, June 16, 2023
Apple’s new Vision Pro is innovative and goofy / Companies / Apple
By: Submissions
By Chris Wood : Apple (AAPL) did it again.
In what many are calling its biggest product launch since the Apple Watch in 2015...
On Monday, the world’s largest company revealed the highly anticipated Vision Pro mixed reality headset...
... a game-changer that blends virtual and real-world experiences and lets you navigate through apps with your eyes.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Broadcom AVGO Stock Blasts off to the MOON! / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
AVGO - $813, EGF +3%, +7%, PE 20.5, F7.3
To the MOON! AVGO is probably the best AI tech stock on my list in terms of fundamentals. We are now in uncharted territory, all we have are the round numbers of $900 and $1000 to play with. I am 46% invested and reluctant to trim further. Given the fundamentals could spike even higher on earnings 1st June.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
ASML Stock New All Time High? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
ASML - $736, EGF +14%, +22%, PE 40.7, F5.6
I have resisted the urge to trim ASML, so little trimming to date primarily due to the positive EGF's that is contrary to most. This stock has already doubled off it's low and could fly to new all time highs this year!
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
AMAT Stock New All Time High? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
AMAT $136, EGF -7%, -11%, P/E 17, F6,1
AMAT has had a fantastic bull run off it's $70 low thus I think it's going to find it tough to make much headway above X2, $140 given the negative EGF's. it could just manage to trade above $140 before correcting.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
3 Investing lessons I learned in Italy / Companies / Microsoft
By: Stephen_McBride
My wife and I took a birthday trip to Tuscany over Memorial Day weekend.
There was love, laughter, and lots of wine.
I’m always on the lookout for investing ideas on my trips. You often find inspiration in the strangest places, and Tuscany didn’t disappoint.
Today, I’m sharing three investing lessons I learned from the trip… and how you can use them to make money.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Progress for Stephen Bird’s Turnaround of Global Investment Company and Asset Manager abrdn / Companies / SME
By: Sumeet_Manhas
It’s been two years since Stephen Bird’s successful rebrand of Standard Life Aberdeen into abrdn. The former banker became the asset manager’s CEO in autumn 2020. He launched the new abrdn branding in spring 2021, reshaping the global investment company into three growth vectors.
The corporate rebrand has been one aspect of Bird’s wider company transformation. So far, his long-term plan to future-proof abrdn has reaped positive rewards. The turnaround continues to progress at a steady rate.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Stock Market Preps for CPI LIE Inflation PUMP and DUMP / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2023
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
Are the FOMO Maniacs about to get rug pulled?
We have CP LIE Tuesday and then the Fed rate meeting Wednesday in advance of which retail investors and many fund managers woke up June 1st to realise that there is a bull market underway and literally PANIC bought like a herd galloping towards the edge of the AI cliff.
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
META FILL the GAP FOMO All the way to $330! / Companies / Metaverse
By: Nadeem_Walayat
META $262 - EGF +13%, +38%, PE 26.9, F5
Willie Wonka's golden ticket stocks are those with Low P/E's (relative), positive EGF's, Okay fundamentals and under 100% share holder dilution, META FITS the bill. I recall in the depths of hell when META was at $100 and many wanted me to give them the green light to throw in the towel, my response was I never sell at a loss and now you can see why! Every time I crunch META's numbers I raise my Sell limit orders hence I still maintain heavy exposure at 133%. I would not be surprised if we see META trade north of $330 this year!
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
Micron MU Stock Price FOMO to $80 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
MICRON - $74 - EGF -400%, -213%, P/E 35.4, F4.4
Horrific fundamentals have prompted to grab the bull by the horn and trim Micron hard down to 85% invested and given the numbers I just can't see much more upside for Micron at a push it could get to $80, it's going to be interesting looking back on these stocks with the benefit of hindsight.
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
Will AMD Stock Price FOMO to $150? / Companies / AMD
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Not in the same league as Nvidia in terms of being in a blow off top. but for one stock that I had heavily bought I have taken this FOMO rally to SELL HARD down to 97% invested as all of the limits I had placed right up to $125 have been executed. Yes, AMD could go a lot higher during this FOMO run maybe as high as $150, we will only know with the benefit of hindsight.
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
Nvidia Blow Off Top - Flying High like the Phoenix too Close to the Sun / Companies / Nvidia
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Nvidia has gone nuts! EGF's are very strong at +44% and +84%, too strong! Discounting too much growth. I know Nvidia well and yes there is very high demand for their AI Chips, but many of their most recent GPU releases i.e. the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060Ti are POOP in terms of price per performance i.e. one is better of buying last gen than their most recent releases. And then we have the 127X P/E ratio for a stock trading on a market cap of $967 billion! So I sold 12% at $383, and I am now just 2% invested.
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
Can You Power a Kitchen Kettle With a Portable Power Station - Awanfi 518watt Test / Personal_Finance / Shopping
By: HGR
Answering the question can one power a regular kitchen kettle using a portable power station such as anAWANFI 518watt, will the water get hot enough for a cup of coffee?
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
Budgie Lays First EGG! Top Tips - Breeding Budgies for Beginners UK - (4) / Personal_Finance / Animals & Pets
By: Eliza_Walayat
We got our first Budgie EGG today! What a surprise the nesting box actually works! How to breed budgies for absolute beginners! find out in this video of how we did it.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Apple AAPL Stock Trend and Earnings Analysis / Companies / Apple
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Dear Reader
S&P 4133 - The stock market is clearly counting down to a major move after having gone nowhere for near 3 weeks, largely stuck in a range of mainly between 4150 and 4120. There is the Fed Meeting on 3rd May when the Fed is expected to raise rates by 0.25% that now carries 83% probability and then there is Apples earnings after the next days close (4th May), where Apple stock represents a ridiculous 7.2% of the S&P index so where Apple goes so does the rest of the market and thus is the focus of this analysis.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
AI, Stocks, and Gold Stocks – Connected After All / Companies / AI
By: P_Radomski_CFA
AI! Computers making intelligent decisions! New paradigm! Old laws don’t apply anymore! Long live the bull market! …Really?
Yes, AI is transformative. It already starts to enhance multiple businesses, just like the Internet did many years ago. And as many thought cryptocurrencies would.
But it doesn’t mean that the huge transformation will happen overnight! Or that it fixes everything with regard to the world’s problems in general or with the economic situation.
However, as always, markets – that are ultimately made of people (and bots that were programmed by people, anyway) – are emotional in the short run. And this emotionality is what likely we have just seen when the interest in AI soared.