Do films about money provide genuine investing insights, or are they simply Hollywood fantasies? Hollywood occasionally casts finance as its leading role, depicting the highs and lows of stock markets, Wall Street shenanigans, and the colorful characters within. Movies like “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Dumb Money,” and “The Big...
Major U.S. equity indexes appear to be on a consistent upward trajectory, but individual stocks within these indexes tell a different story. A report from Charles Schwab & Co. highlights the disparity between the relatively steady performance of overall equity indexes and the volatile behavior of their constituent stocks. Despite...
A Mizuho analyst is concerned about the strong momentum in chip stocks despite the lack of fresh catalysts. Nvidia Corp. shares have been climbing for six consecutive days, set to hit a sixth straight record high. Jordan Klein, an analyst at Mizuho Securities, finds this rapid rise worrying, especially as...
The apparent absence of a crucial element seen in most past peak bubbles suggests that U.S. stocks are not presently in a bubble, as per analysts at TS Lombard. Unlike prior bubbles, today’s market lacks significant leverage. Despite appearing overvalued, particularly in sectors like technology, financial, and healthcare, margin debt...
Despite the surge in other major U.S. stock-market averages to record highs, the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) has struggled, remaining more than 6% below its peak from November 2021. Over the past year, it has lagged behind the broader Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) by over 12 percentage points....
Jonathan Krinsky, the chief market technician at BTIG, highlights that the Nasdaq-100, heavily weighted towards tech, has not seen a pullback of 2.5% or more in 303 trading sessions, marking it as the third-longest streak since 1990. While this streak does not necessarily indicate an immediate downturn in the AI-driven...
