Beating the S&P 500: The Case for XLG, the S&P Top 50 ETF
Why Concentration Beats Diversification in Today’s Market
S&P 500 investors should take note. You’re not as diversified as you think. If 50 of the 500 stocks, the top 50 in particular, can consistently outperform the full capitalization weighted 500, why focus solely on the latter. In fact, why focus on it at all?
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Read MoreWarren Buffett Quashes BNSF-CSX Merger Rumors as Railroads Roll Out Coast-to-Coast Services
BNSF Railway and CSX are introducing two coast-to-coast intermodal rail services as the railroads cozy up amid a pending Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger.
However, a merger seems to be out of the cards. According to a CNBC report Monday, Warren Buffett,
Forget the deteriorating US economy, rates are going to be cut
Donald Trump no doubt would claim it as a win.
When Jerome Powell let slip on Friday that US monetary policy was restricting the economy, he unleashed a wave of buying on both stock and debt markets and, no doubt, jubilation in the White House.
The message, at least superficially, was that interest rates were about to be cut.
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Read MoreCentrus Energy Corp. (LEU) Gains More Than 100% After Jim Cramer Recommended An Alternative
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal!
AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous.
Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy.
Read MoreA Look Back at Renewable Energy Stocks’ Q2 Earnings: American Superconductor (NASDAQ:AMSC) Vs The Rest Of The Pack
As the Q2 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the renewable energy industry, including American Superconductor (NASDAQ:AMSC) and its peers.
Renewable energy companies are buoyed by the secular trend of green energy that is upending traditional power generation.
The Burst
How Far Will The Market Fall?
Zooming out is often quite helpful in providing insights as to where the market is likely to go. When we examine a chart of the S&P 500 now on a weekly basis, a clear uptrend from mid-2022 has formed.
So too has a strong resistance line been created at close to the 4,800 mark both at the end of 2021 and the end of 2023.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
2x Champion Trader Goes SHORT
The wild statistics are flying now. At the depths of the price action on Friday, the bearish tape was as bad as any seen since the COVID lows.
2% corrections in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ and S&P 500 all signaled broad-based selling and the obliteration of just about every sector.
Nothing was left unscathed.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
If You Could Only Buy 1 Stock, This Would Be It
Putting all your eggs in one basket is usually a bad idea, unless that basket is heavily diversified. Yet most companies fail the diversification test. Google is still largely a bet on advertising. Uber is mostly a bet on ridesharing and food delivery. And Netflix is a bet on streaming content. If even the titans of technology fail the diversification test,
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