Editor’s Note: For nearly 50 years, quant investing legend Louis Navellier has built his reputation by identifying fast-growing companies before Wall Street fully catches on. He’s one of the few market veterans who combines deep fundamental research with a disciplined quantitative system designed to track where institutional money is moving early.
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Cathie Wood, chief of Ark Investment Management, is known for actively trading her holdings, sometimes selling stocks during sharp market pullbacks.
Semiconductor stocks experienced a major market pullback on May 15, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) dropping roughly 4%. Amid that sell-off, Wood sold millions of dollars worth of shares in one chipmaker company.
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The stock market has been rallying hard. Earnings have been strong. Investor confidence has surged. On the surface, it looks like a textbook risk-on environment. Goldman Sachs agrees with that read.
And it thinks that’s exactly why investors should pay close attention to what it’s seeing right now.
The bank published a note on May 13 titled “Macro Headwinds vs.
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Nvidia (NVDA) stock closed the May 15 trading session 4.42% down at $225.32, according to Yahoo Finance.
Micron closed 6.62% lower at $724.66
Intel closed 6.18% lower at $108.77
AMD closed 5.69% lower at $424.1
Broadcom closed 3.32% lower at $425.19
Marvell closed 3.12% lower at $176.89
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When you claim Social Security as soon as you become eligible at 62, you’re guaranteed to get the greatest number of checks. But that’s not always the same as getting the largest lifetime benefit.
Claiming early reduces your monthly benefit amount by up to 30%. However, there’s a way to mitigate this penalty and increase your benefit significantly in just one year.
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Warren Buffett speaks with CNBC during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, NE on May 2, 2026.
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A bidder agreed to pay $9,000,100 at auction to dine with billionaire investor Warren Buffett and basketball superstar Stephen Curry in a charity fundraiser.
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Though still involved in looking for attractive investments, Warren Buffett passed the capital allocation baton as Greg Abel takes the lead at Berkshire Hathaway. Greg Abel steers to a more concentrated investment approach (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The world has changed for the airlines.
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The optics of this week’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping were carefully staged to signal parity between the United States and China. Trump, the first US president to visit mainland China in nearly a decade, was accompanied by an entourage of American CEOs—including Tesla’s Elon Musk (with his son X), Apple’s Tim Cook,
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The following stocks are among the hardest hit in today’s market sell-off:
Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) down 7.4%.
Ford (NYSE: F) down 7.4%.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) down 6.1%.
Markets are now pricing in better than a 50% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike by January,
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