Is crypto dead? This question has been on the minds of many investors in recent months, with the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, down over 50% in the last year and the entire market losing $2 trillion in value.
With cryptocurrency being one of the most polarizing topics in economics today, there are countless opinions on whether this crash signals the end of crypto or it is a market correction that was inevitable before the next bull market comes running.
Yesterday the market fell as the Fed hiked rates, and more importantly signaled that it would continue to do so for longer than originally expected. But you might be surprised to discover this market reaction was highly unusual for 2022.
We’ll get back to the market in a moment but first, a quick throwback.
Buffett is no stranger to billion dollar bets. Despite how the market has been this year, his strategy has not changed. If anything, Buffett has been investing more aggressively by taking advantage of plummeting stock prices.
In the past, Buffett has been critical of Robinhood (HOOD),
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Snowflake (SNOW), a data warehouse built for the cloud, is a fully managed software service that offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Snowflake’s architecture handles all types of data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
With the world rapidly changing to online data, Snowflake has been able to adapt to this change and provide its services through the internet.
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After hitting a high of $292.51 per share in February 2021, Teladoc (TDOC) shares plummeted by over $250 per share. This year alone the price of TDOC shares has plunged by over 67%.
Still, there’s plenty to like and the bull case has merit.
Who will win the streaming wars? Netflix got off to a great start as the first company to break 100 million and 200 million subscribers. Then Disney caught up, and eclipsed Netflix’ subscriber base last quarter. But they’re not alone. Roku, Apple and Amazon all have offerings to woo consumers. And yet there is a good chance,
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Meta Platforms (META) has repurchased shares totaling around $14.7 billion so far in 2022. The social media titan, best known for Facebook, bought $5.08 billion of its stock this past quarter — but what does it all mean? Is now the time to buy, or has META become a value trap?
When Bank of America’s Chief Investment Strategist turned bullish last month amid a plethora of dire sentiment readings, few paid close attention.
Then the markets rose by 20% off their lows.
So, what is Wall Street’s most accurate analyst saying now?
In a word: SELL.
According to Hartnett,
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When you think of 91 year old Warren Buffett’s stock picks, old stodgy companies with wide moats that spit off massive amounts of cash come to mind. From railways to insurance, the laundry list of market-beating companies Buffett owns through his holding company Berkshire Hathaway is the stuff of legend.
But one sector Buffett has famously avoided up until the last few years is technology,
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