You’re About To Spit Out Your Coffee
While the market has generally been trending higher this year with various bumps in the road, Starbucks has had an altogether different journey and remained largely flat over the past 12 months. Worse still, until its recent CEO switchover, it had been decidedly under water.
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Buffett Is Buying, Are You?
The most popular stocks in 2021 became pariahs in 2022. Here’s a short list of the top stocks at the start of the year and how they fared as November rolled around:
- Peloton -91.4%
- Affirm -88.5%
- Asana -87.5%
- Docusign -83.1%
- Snap -82.4%
- Doordash -81.7%
- Shopify -80.6%
- Coinbase -80.5%
- Okta -79.0%
- Twilio -78.8%
- Block -76.6%
As you can see,
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1 AI Stock To Hold For A Decade
When Palantir first came public, it was met with a degree of skepticism and mystery. The company had long been famous for its connections to government and intelligence. But since its public markets debut, Palantir has largely disappointed.
The early pop in 2021 to $35 per share has long faded and now, sitting under $10 per share,
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Is Meta Doomed?
When Facebook changed its name to Meta (META), it made an all-in gamble before it had even been dealt a hand. The metaverse is a concept so new that even its definition is still up for debate. Some say it’s a virtual world where you can be anyone you want,
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Champion Trader Buys NEW Breakout
An old Buffett adage goes something like this “we don’t have to be smarter than others, we have to be more disciplined” and what’s true for the investing world goes for the trading world too.
In that realm, champion traders have to watch stocks like a hawk. Waiting for the precise moment for breakouts to occur and then pouncing on them when they do.
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Crazy Great Depression Stat Scares Investors
Some things only look crazy in hindsight. Did anyone in 1929 know they were on the cusp of The Great Depression? A tiny minority, at best. The rest, well, they all piled into stocks, and a just few of them too.
Fast forward almost a century and investors appear to be committing the same financial crime,
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Soros Protege Tripled His Investment In This Stock
I found something interesting sniffing around the latest Duquesne Family Office 13F filings. Former Soros protege, Stanley Druckenmiller tripled his stake in Datadog, a SaaS monitoring and analytics platform.
Why would a billionaire be buying a high growth stock in a rising interest rate environment?
The first clue lies in the DDOG share price.
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Social Security makes major decision for beneficiaries who receive paper checks
Americans who receive Social Security benefits but don’t use electronic banking received some good news this week. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced that the Social Security Administration won’t enforce an executive order that would have put an end to paper checks being issued for benefit payments.
On July 14,
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