Tag Archives: BeatenDown

Last month, the annualized rate of inflation hit 8.6%, the highest in more than 40 years. Last week, in response, the Federal Reserve bumped up its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points, the largest such hike since 1994. The combination of high inflation and aggressive tightening action by the central bank sent an already jittery stock market to its worst single week since the onset of the COVID crisis, and has economists talking gloomily about a repeat of the late 1970s and early… Source link

After 7 weeks of straight losses, the markets went into the long weekend on positive note: their best single week since 2020. The S&P 500 added more than 6% wiping away its losses from the month of May. The sudden drop in value, combined with the even more sudden bullish shift, even if it is temporary, has brought out the discount shoppers of the equity world. ‘Buy the dip’ is a real thing, and frequently successful path toward long-term portfolio gains, and the current environment is… Source link

When investing legend George Soros makes a move, the market takes notice. And he has definitely made some eye-opening moves of late. According to the latest 13F filing from Soros Fund Management, the billionaire financier’s family office sold 3,680 shares of Amazon (AMZN) in Q1 of 2022, reducing his stake in the e-commerce giant by 5%. At the same time, the fund slashed its positions in food service company Aramark (ARMK) by 33%. But Soros also made several purchases during the quarter —… Source link

‘It’s so horrible that I want to buy it’ — Jim Cramer likes these 2 beaten-down tech names that are still posting white-hot revenue growth The market doesn’t seem able to find a bottom. The S&P 500 has fallen about 16% year to date, while the tech-centric Nasdaq is down 26% over the same time frame. But CNBC’s Jim Cramer sees plenty of opportunity amid the market downturn. In fact, the Mad Money host recently revealed two stocks that he wants to buy right now. Here’s a quick look… Source link

As an indication of how the stock market has suffered so far this year, the 2022 selloff has been unlike anything seen for the last 80 years. While there have been a host of reasons for the market wide rout, the meltdown has been most acute amongst growth stocks. As Wells Fargo’s Head of Equity Strategy Christopher Harvey puts it, “the sell-off is all about ‘growth’ — but not economic growth. Rather, it is about the growth style, the mispricing of duration, and risk appetite (or lack… Source link

Matti/Pexels Sanctions On Russia Go To Eleven  In our previous post (Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities), we wrote that one reason U.S. markets bounced after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was that Russia’s invasion didn’t lead to war with NATO, and the West hasn’t so far resorted to nuclear-level sanctions against Russia, such as removing it from SWIFT or boycotting its energy exports. But we cautioned that a couple of big outstanding risks remained. First,… Source link