My top 10 things to watch Monday, Oct. 27 1. Wall Street was in rally mode this morning on the potential for a U.S.-China trade truce. A higher open would extend last week’s S & P 500 surge and record high Friday . In the week ahead, tons of earnings , including much of the…
We had some big wins this week from investing in stocks and managing a portfolio — not speculating, not betting, not risking it all on a wing and a prayer that would make Vegas casino owners green with envy. Honeywell delivered with a terrific quarter in aerospace — and you can, at last, see that…
The latest frenzy in Beyond Meat is offering a fresh reminder for investors chasing the latest viral stock — Riding the meme wave is fun, until it isn’t. The food company known for its plant-based burgers and sausages experienced monstrous gains of 128% Monday and 146% Tuesday. On Wednesday, the stock erased a triple-digit intraday…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Oct. 22 1. GE Vernova reported an earnings beat this morning and reaffirmed its full-year targets. The Club stock posted excellent organic orders for gas turbines, but miserable orders for wind. Wind is a rounding error. It has a giant hyperscale order and is the only company that…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading: F5 — Shares of the cybersecurity firm fell more than 3% after it disclosed a nation-state actor gained access to its systems. The company said the breach hasn’t hurt its operations. Progressive — The insurer’s stock tumbled about 8% after reporting disappointing results. Progressive…
Stocks were brutalized Friday in a way we haven’t seen in ages. Everything except some downtrodden consumer packaged goods stocks, led by the resurgent PepsiCo , was slaughtered. The headwinds were enormous and came from disparate places. Bond yields came down huge, something that equity markets normally greet with tremendous relief and price-to-earning multiple expansion….
In a stock market that has so clearly rewarded risk-takers, it can be easy to justify investing in high-flyers or speculating on potential disruptors. However, the potential for great reward always comes with great risk. That raises the question: How should investors go about making high-risk, high-reward bets in a smart way that may put…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Ferrari — The luxury carmaker tumbled nearly 14% after it trimmed its electrification targets . Ferrari said it expects its 2030 sports car model line-up to be made up of 40% internal combustion engine cars, 40% hybrid and 20% fully electric vehicles. That’s down…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Oct. 8 1. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Investing Club members that Oracle’s cloud business renting Nvidia chips to customers will “be wonderfully profitable” over the life of the AI system. He was responding to a media report that said Oracle was seeing thin margins on the chips…
Government shutdowns should, theoretically, matter to the stock market. A shutdown could hurt spending power for up to 900,000 people, the highest estimate I have seen for those to be furloughed. That’s a lot of people who will spend a lot less money – especially because most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Shutdowns still don’t…