Thursday, April 25, 2024
The pandemic certainly turned the semiconductor industry on its head. Despite record production of semiconductors, shortages everywhere led to months-long waiting lists for many consumer products. To meet consumer demand, semiconductor makers ramped up supply even more. But then inflation arrived and decided to stay awhile. Central banks responded by raising rates, and economies slowed. […]
The war in Ukraine certainly boosted energy stocks in 2022. But it also lit a fire underneath another sector: defense stocks. Shares in defense companies have surged in recent months, eclipsing the gains seen in the wider stock market averages. An MSCI global benchmark for the sector is up almost 30% in dollar terms since […]
2022 was truly a breakout year for generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can produce fluent textual responses to questions, draft stories, and generate images on demand. But generative AI really came to the fore for investors after Microsoft (MSFT) made the decision in January of this year by to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the […]
Alphabet (GOOGL or GOOG), Google’s parent company, is now the largest advertising platform in the world. That would be good news in a healthy market, but heading into a recession, it is actually bad news. Advertising is highly cyclical, and when consumers start pulling back and the economy slows, marketing is often one of the […]
The global auto industry is in an all-out drive toward a cleaner and greener future.However, for some suppliers to the auto industry, it has not been a pleasurable joyride. Instead, current conditions are more like driving on a icy, treacherous mountain road in the middle of a blizzard. Only the most skilled drivers will make […]
The current state of the global semiconductor industry can be described by the famous opening words of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” The global chip supply crunch triggered by the pandemic is likely to be drag on for the next two […]
Tech stocks have been among the hardest hit in market sell off this year. Roblox (RBLX), the popular video game company, has also seen a sharp decline in its share price as its revenue growth has slowed. However, after its most recent earnings report, the stock price looks like it could be bouncing back. In […]
Wow, what a week! For those whose portfolios are simply filled with long stocks, this has been a disastrous time. But for those who are swimming in cash, this is a great opportunity to make even more money by selling some options to take in the lofty premiums being priced into options due to fear […]
