If The CEO Is Loading Up, Should You?
Riddle me this. If a stock is so awful why does the CEO keep buying so much of it? That’s precisely the situation with SoFi. The share price is down an astonishing 33% year-to-date and yet the boss keeps acquiring stock at a furious pace, and Motley Fool just ranked it one of the safest banks in America. » Read more about: If The CEO Is Loading Up, Should You? »
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Is This Buffett Stock Still a Buy?
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) has been investing heavily in oil and gas this year — Chevron (CVX) now ranks among Berkshire’s top four holdings. Buffett’s holding company owns approximately $26 billion worth of its stock.
Chevron is up an astonishing 34% year-to-date versus the S&P 500 which,
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The Single MOST Important Number for Amazon
Following the company’s second-quarter report, Amazon (AMZN) stock surged, but not because of its e-commerce business.
Amazon’s growth rate slowed, and the company took a loss in e-commerce. However, its cloud services business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), reported a 36% jump in operating income.
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3 Best Stocks To Buy Now
Although it’s essential to protect your investments, it’s equally important to remember that bear markets don’t last forever. While some began panic-selling, others have treated the downturn as an opportunity to buy assets at a discount. When the tide turns,
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What The Heck Does Buffett Know?
Buffett seems to know something about where energy prices are going, but what is it? Why is he taking such a large stake in Occidental Petroleum when the share price has been drastically underperforming the broader-based market?
Up just 9.4% in the past 12 months and 4.3% so far this year, OXY is a laggard relative to the S&P 500,
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Read MoreThe 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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Forget FAANG, Buy These Two Hot Stocks
Over the past decade, FAANG stocks – an acronym that represents the most prominent tech companies, including Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet) – have rewarded long-term investors. These stocks have grown faster than the overall S&P 500 and the technology-focused Nasdaq.
FAANG companies showcase several competitive advantages, and continued growth is anticipated over the next decade.
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Trump-Xi call restores trade truce. But the supply chain war has no end in sight
Hong Kong
CNN
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The fragile trade truce between the United States and China has, for now, been pulled back from the brink.
US President Donald Trump finally got his long-anticipated phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during which the two agreed to resume trade talks that had stalled over accusations from each side that the other had reneged on previous promises.