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(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks started the week higher after their U.S. peers chalked fresh records and Treasury yields stabilized after jumping Friday. Shares in Japan outperformed and Hong Kong opened higher. China rose after the central bank cut the amount of cash most banks must hold in reserve to buttress a slowing economic expansion. Australia saw a more modest advance amid a prolonged lockdown in the largest city, Sydney. U.S. contracts fluctuated. The S&P 500 finished last week at… Source link

The buzz lately has been all about growth. Stocks are high, and going higher. The gains we’re seeing now are the current extension of a long-term trend – markets have been rising for several years, and their derailment during last year’s corona crisis appears, in hindsight, to have been blip more than anything else. As President Kennedy said long ago, a rising tide lifts all boats – and right now, a savvy investor can find plenty of boats to jump on. So let’s go find some of those… Source link

Just days from now, Biden is set to gamble a proposed $2.5 trillion on a new plan, in hopes of bringing America’s foundation into the next generation. It’s coming in the form of the biggest infrastructure project since the highway system was built in the 1970s. But with today’s massive infrastructure bill, most people might be missing the real story. That’s because typical “infrastructure” pieces like roads, highways, and bridges don’t even make up the biggest part of the bill. Instead,… Source link

Stocks can flirt with a price bottom for a lot of reasons. Usually, however, investors will assume that there is something fundamentally unsound about the stock, or the company. Perhaps its business model is flawed, perhaps its product has grown unpopular – these, and many more factors can drive the share price down. But sometimes, perhaps just as often, a stock price will fall when there is no underlying unsoundness. A spate of bad news, a quarter that misses expectations, or a bad sales… Source link

Stocks sank Thursday to give back gains after a record-setting session, with investors nervously eyeing signs that the economic recovery might get derailed. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq were each off by more than 1%. This marked the first time since June that the S&P 500 opened more than 1% lower. A day earlier, the blue-chip index rose to a record closing high for the eighth time in the last nine sessions as concerns over a near-term monetary policy adjustment and sustainably high inflation… Source link

(Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks fell, snapping a streak of seven consecutive closing record highs, as a plunge in Treasury yields to the lowest since February weighed on banks and small caps. A gauge of the dollar strengthened and crude oil dropped from a six-year high. The benchmark S&P 500 was led lower by the energy and financial sectors, ending the rally of record closes that was the longest since 1997. Amazon.com pushed the Nasdaq 100 to another all-time high. Ride-hailing firm Didi Global… Source link

The latest OPEC standoff that is keeping oil prices at lofty levels opens the door for investors to potentially profit from several oil-related stocks, according to Goldman Sachs energy analyst Neil Mehta.  Mehta outlined 10 oil stocks he is bullish on in a new piece of research on Tuesday: (1) Occidental Petroleum (OCY); (2) ExxonMobil (XOM); (3) Ovintiv (OVV); (4) Diamondback Energy (FANG); (5) ConocoPhillips (COP); (6) EQT Corporation (EQT); (7) Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD); (8) Devon… Source link

Let’s take a look away from the headline-grabbing market giants, and head into the world of penny stocks. Traditionally, these were stocks priced at just pennies per share – that’s the old English copper penny, when it was 240 pence to the pound – but nowadays the ‘pennies’ are stocks with share prices under $5. The penny stocks offer retail investors a series of advantages, all connected. Their low price makes the cost of entry to the market affordable – a relatively small… Source link

In this article, we discuss the 10 stocks Michael Burry is selling. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of Burry’s history, investment philosophy, and hedge fund performance, go directly to the 5 Stocks Michael Burry is Selling. Michael Burry, the chief of California-based Scion Asset Management, has been in the news recently after regulatory filings revealed that he had PUT options on more than 800,000 shares of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), the electric vehicle maker owned by… Source link

The stock market is entering the danger zone, according to one often overlooked measure of equities valuation.  At its current level of 38 times, the Shiller P/E Ratio is nearing the peak (44 times) seen at the height just before the dot-com bust in 2000, write strategists at SunDial Capital Research. Created by noted Yale professor Robert Shiller, the ratio is seen as better than the traditional P/E ratio as it adjusts for inflation. Historically, a Shiller PE ratio sustained over 25 times… Source link