The Max Pain Trade Is…
If one market analyst is to be believed, the path of the market that will lead to most pain will involve a move higher from the early August lows followed by a sharp correction in September and October, repeating a pattern not seen since 1998.
Back then July marked the high and October the low, much like it did this year at least when it comes to the highs. » Read more about: The Max Pain Trade Is… »
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Is This Dividend King The MOST Undervalued Of All?
Dividend kings are a rare breed. A company must have increased its dividend consecutively for the past 50 years to qualify for the elite status. The list of companies that make the cut is small, as a result, and includes:
- Johnson & Johnson
- Procter & Gamble
- Coca Cola
- Altria Group
- Target
- Sysco
- Parker Hannafin
- American States Water Company
- Tootsie Roll Industries
The total number of companies that are on the list could hardly be counted on your fingers and toes.
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Did Little-Known Dutch Firm Trigger Monster Buffett Buy?
World trade is truly global and interconnected. Perhaps the chip industry exemplifies this most. Apple sells phones around the world that rely on manufacturing by TSMC who is in turn supplied by a Dutch company few investors know anything about. And it’s that little-known Dutch company that quite possibly triggered Warren Buffett to make a huge purchase in its most recent quarter.
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Buffett Wins the Hare vs Tortoise Race, Again
ARK Invest (ARKK) was a darling of Wall Street for several years. It focused on disruptive technologies and its promise to outperform the market attracted enormous interest. Then interest rates rose and growth stocks fell out of favor. Since then, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)(BRK.B) has been slowly but surely overtaking ARK Invest,
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Did The Market Already Bottom?
If Goldman Sachs is right, the market moves late last week were sufficient to alleviate selling pressure, at least for now. They identified a key line in the sand around 5250 where selling pressure would sharply drop over the coming week from the sell orders that had been slated.
It’s also been a tailwind to see big institutions,
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Sentiment Extreme Warns Traders To Watch Out
Largely, trading falls into one of 3 buckets. Fundamental, technical or sentiment analysis. For the most part, we focus on valuations as part of fundamental analysis and charts as part of technical analysis but sentiment analysis has a time and place, and they appear to be right here, right now.
Tom McClellan, famous for creating the McClellan Oscillator pointed out a remarkable statistic that hasn’t surfaced in over 5 years.
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Tootsie Roll Highlights Crazy Market
The current S&P 500 bear market was officially announced on June 13, 2022 and it doesn’t seem as if the bear market is over yet. A sustained recovery will likely commence only once interest rates peak, and further rises are no longer expected. In spite of the general market malaise, some stocks are bucking the trend when it comes to valuation metrics.
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Jensen Huang-Led Nvidia Honors Pioneering Women In Science With AI Chip Names: Here's The Legacy Behind Ada, Hopper And Rubin Architectures
As Nvidia Corp. NVDA strengthens its position in the AI hardware market, the company is quietly paying tribute to some of history’s most influential scientists by naming its powerful chip architectures after women whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern computing and science.