1 Little-known Fund Goes All In On Semi Stock
Prospect Capital Advisors isn’t a big name fund but it’s put almost 10% of its fund into a single stock, Silicon Motion Technology.
For a fund overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars, this is quite a bet. Why risk it all on a little-known stock when you can follow the herd into Apple, Tesla, Amazon and Alphabet, » Read more about: 1 Little-known Fund Goes All In On Semi Stock »
Read More60.2% Upside In This Forgotten Favorite
When we wrote about Apple’s bullish opportunity frankly we weren’t expecting it to be the only stock that held up in the market but the graphic below highlights just how awful Friday’s market was and how nothing escaped the onslaught but the Cupertino giant.
But what other stock could be on the verge of rising after a period of sustained underperformance?
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Read MoreRed Hot Inflation, Volatility Soars And Scary Prediction
When the CPI news hit the wires, the market immediately started to sell off on Wednesday. Concerns rose that inflation, which many thought had tempered, was in fact red hot.
Translation: The Federal Reserve would be less likely to cut rates. And since rate cuts have been priced in, the only way for the market to go was down,
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Read MoreIs a 34.6% Annual Return a Slam Dunk?
The old fox Warren Buffett might still have the midas touch after all. One of his favorite stocks in recent years has been Occidental Petroleum, and it’s been on a tear recently.
A quick look at the chart reveals that the stock has broken out to the upside, above an old yet key resistance level.
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Read MoreYou’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.
The fundamentals have been fairly underwhelming for some time as earnings reports have revealed.
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Read MoreThe Burst
How To Trade The Crashing Markets
Lots of finger-pointing has taken place. Was it Buffett selling Apple? The jobs report? The unwind of the Japanese carry trade, which is essentially nothing more than borrowing at low rates in Japan and investing at higher yields in the US. Or was it the re-pricing from inflation concerns to recession worries?
Regardless,
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
1 Top Healthcare Firm Set To Pop
UnitedHealth Group, with a market capitalization of around $454 billion, is the largest health insurer in the United States, serving nearly 50 million Americans.
It benefits from unparalleled market presence and scale that grants it significant bargaining power, which in turn ensures lower costs and higher margins compared to its competitors.
Over the past decade,
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Read MoreThe Daily
The Stock Market Just Crossed a Threshold It's Never Reached Before — and History Is Quite Clear What Happens Next
Since reaching a bear market bottom a little over two years ago, the bulls have been running the show on Wall Street. This year, the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and growth stock-dependent Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have reached multiple all-time highs.