Got stopped by a faithful viewer while making a hard left turn with a full cart at Costco Sunday. Reasonable guy. Asked a double-edged question: “What can you do to make my Apple stock go up.” Double-edged because the stock has done nothing since June 2023, but it’s up 30 points from a year ago. … Read more
We’ve been relatively free of actions by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for some time now. The intrusion into the market at the end of October and early November seems like ancient history. This week, however, could change all that. Two releases on Wednesday — the Federal Open Market Committee statement and the Treasury’s … Read more
We don’t know what we want. This week, we will find out what it is that will propel us forward or turn us back after the S & P 500 on Friday closed at a new record high for the first time in more than two years. For example, we have three rails that report … Read more
The S & P 500 notched a record close Friday for the first time in more than two years — and over that time, no Club stock has performed better than Eli Lilly . The broad market index ended Friday’s session at 4,839.81, edging out its prior all-time high close of 4,796.56 set on Jan. … Read more
Health care may be a real challenger to tech this year, a business that can actually grow faster than most of tech and has the possibility of a comeback from the Covid straitjacket that so many of these companies got caught up in. The pandemic obscured so much of the growth as Abbott Labs , … Read more
Apple received yet another downgrade this week, the latest in a stream of cautious calls for the world’s largest company. It could present an opportunity for new investors. Redburn Atlantic analysts on Wednesday cut Apple shares to hold from buy , citing limited multiple expansion opportunities and narrow upside in iPhone sales. And Redburn is … Read more
It’s not being talked about enough. This market move off the November lows and the Fed pivot — signaling an end to the central bank’s rate-hiking cycle — is one of the most astonishing and satisfying I have seen in 43 years of investing. In nine weeks, we blew through price targets on so many … Read more
