Stocks are in their longest stretch without a 2% sell-off since the financial crisis

Stocks are in their longest stretch without a 2% sell-off since the financial crisis

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Jan. 11, 2024. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images Wall Street’s climb to record highs has come with conspicuously little volatility. The S&P 500 has gone 377 days without a 2.05% sell-off. That’s the longest stretch for the benchmark … Read more

How investors can stay protected with emerging market opportunities

How investors can stay protected with emerging market opportunities

Investors may want to consider hedging their emerging market plays, according to one exchange-traded fund expert. Ben Slavin, global head of ETFs and managing director at BNY, said that while there have been notable inflows into Indian, European and Japanese ETFs, investors should account for the strength of the U.S. dollar. “You have to look … Read more

Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project

Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.  Apu Gomes | Getty Images Shares of Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer jumped Thursday after Elon Musk revealed that the two hardware … Read more

Steve Cohen is set to make a big push into investing in AI

Steve Cohen is set to make a big push into investing in AI

Steve Cohen, chairman and CEO of Point72, speaking to CNBC on April 3, 2024. CNBC Billionaire investor Steve Cohen’s Point72 plans to launch a separate, artificial intelligence-focused hedge fund to capitalize on the boom, according to a person close to the firm’s plans. The new long/short equity fund, to be launched later this year or early … Read more

Warren Buffett buys Occidental shares for 9 straight days, pushes his stake to nearly 29%

Warren Buffett buys Occidental shares for 9 straight days, pushes his stake to nearly 29%

Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2024. David A. Grogan Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has scooped up more shares of Occidental Petroleum over each of the past nine trading sessions, driving his gigantic stake in the Houston-based oil and gas producer to … Read more

GME shares drop to session lows after annual meeting fails to offer details on firm’s strategy

GME shares drop to session lows after annual meeting fails to offer details on firm’s strategy

Traders work at the post where GameStop is traded on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 12, 2024.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters GameStop shares slid on Monday after the company’s highly anticipated annual meeting failed to offer any concrete updates on the video game retailer’s future … Read more

Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway trims stake in EV maker BYD to 6.9%

Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway trims stake in EV maker BYD to 6.9%

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024. CNBC Berkshire Hathaway, an early investor in BYD thanks to the late Charlie Munger, continued to trim its massive stake in China’s biggest electric vehicle maker. Warren Buffett’s conglomerate has sold an additional 1.3 million Hong Kong-listed shares … Read more

Roaring Kitty’s GameStop stake grows to 9 million shares

Roaring Kitty’s GameStop stake grows to 9 million shares

Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, hosting a YouTube livestream on June 7th, 2024. Source: Roaring Kitty | YouTube Meme stock champion Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty” online, seemed to increase his ownership in GameStop‘s common stock and appears to be holding more than 9 million shares. Gill posted a new screenshot of his E-Trade … Read more

Here’s the Fed’s new rate forecast that’s moving the markets

Here’s the Fed’s new rate forecast that’s moving the markets

Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell announces that interest rates will remain unchanged during a news conference at the bank’s William McChesney Martin building on May 01, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Federal Reserve on Wednesday projected only one rate cut for the remainder of 2024, down from its March … Read more

GameStop tanks with huge volume in the call options owned by ‘Roaring Kitty’

GameStop tanks with huge volume in the call options owned by ‘Roaring Kitty’

A holding page for Keith Gill, a Reddit user credited with inspiring GameStop’s rally, before a YouTube livestream arranged on a laptop at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, June 7, 2024.  Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A sell-off in GameStop shares intensified in afternoon trading Wednesday, … Read more