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Millennials will power a bull market in stocks for decades: Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood tells Yahoo Finance Live that just like baby boomers have heavily influenced the stock market for decades, their children — aka millennials — will be equally if not more important to the investing landscape in the decades to come. And that is one reason why the closely followed Ark Invest founder and CEO is staying long-term bullish on stocks.  “This is the echo of the baby boom,” said Wood on the rise of millennial investors, notably in 2021. Wood referenced research that… Source link

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Beware of increased stock market volatility, Delta has slowed the economy: Goldman

August marked the seventh straight month of gains for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) as investors ignored softening U.S. economic data at the hands of the COVID Delta variant.  But investors may be wise to stop ignoring the data, and position for a September rife with market volatility, says the team at Goldman Sachs.  “General mobility statistics have weakened, full-service restaurant indicators have softened, travel intentions appear to have faded and retail traffic declines (off of 2019 levels) have… Source link

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Dogecoin Headed For Over $1, Crypto Market Analyst Believes

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is headed for much higher highs, according to cryptocurrency market analyst Gianni Di Poce. What Happened: Speaking at the Benzinga Crypto Trading Festival, Di Poce — financial analyst and president at market research firm The Mercator — said that he “wouldn’t be surprised to see DOGE at over a buck a coin.” The market analyst explained that the coin is now forming something that resembles a bull flag or a bull pennant and that we should expect new highs if it were… Source link

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Companies are stepping back into the market: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, August 26, 2021 Buybacks are making a comeback In the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest sources of buying power in the stock market were the companies themselves.  At the post-crisis buyback peak of March 2018, members of the S&P 500 had spent a collective $823.2 billion repurchasing shares of their own company over… Source link

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Google brings Samsung 5G modem tech to U.S. market with new Pixel phone -sources

The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Aug 25 (Reuters) – Google will tap Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to supply the 5G modem for its next flagship Pixel smart phone, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, signaling the first win for the Korean firm in a U.S. market dominated by Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O). Earlier this month, Google disclosed that it has… Source link

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‘As long as the stimulus goes on, the stock market can stay in very overvalued territory’

Billionaire bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, founder and CEO of $137 billion DoubleLine Capital, says as long as the Federal Reserve’s stimulus continues, “The stock market can stay in very overvalued territory.” Speaking to Yahoo Finance Live on Monday, Gundlach, known as the “Bond King,” said that while U.S. stocks are overvalued they look cheap compared to bonds. “[As] overvalued as stocks are relative to historical measures — like the price-to-earnings ratio, or Dr. Shiller’s CAPE ratio,… Source link

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Fed tapering bond purchases could pressure stock market: Jeffrey Gundlach

Investors may be wise to tread lightly in the stock market as the Federal Reserve nears the start of its bond tapering program, hints DoubleLine Capital founder and CEO Jeffrey Gundlach.  “It certainly would be a negative for the stock market,” Gundlach — aka the “bond king” — told Yahoo Finance Live in an exclusive interview on the potential impact to markets from Fed tapering. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to signal the beginning of halting its pandemic-era bond-buying program… Source link

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COVID Delta fears unleash short sellers on these stock market sectors

COVID-19 Delta fears has unleashed the short sellers on the economically sensitive consumer discretionary sector.  Short sellers held 4.57% of outstanding shares in the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector at the end of July, according to new data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Taking a short position in a stock is one’s way of betting on a decline in price.  The percentage of short sellers in the consumer discretionary space has trended higher since April as stimulus check spending… Source link

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Here are the top 10 biggest market risks right now: Wells Fargo

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) has marked a 100% gain since its March 23, 2020, closing low of 2,237.40, closing at 4,479.71 this past Monday. Amid this bull market for equities, however, a recently published State of the Markets report by Wells Fargo (WFC) Investment Institute (WFII) President Darrell L. Cronk lists 10 current risks that could pose a threat to markets and create the “possibility of a near-term correction.” “It is often said that bull markets climb a wall of worry, and today,… Source link

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