The S&P 500 (SP500) on Friday retreated 0.95% for the week to end at 5,204.34 points, posting losses in three out of five sessions. Its accompanying SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) slipped 0.89% for the week. The benchmark index suffered its worst week of 2024, kicking off the second quarter of the year on a dour note following a stellar Q1 that saw the gauge climb more than 10%. Reversal Friday This week also marked only the fourth negative week of the year for the S&P (SP500). The decline was primarily driven by strong economic data on the labor market which increased bets that the Federal Reserve would be in no rush to cut interest rates. Additionally, a rally in commodities led to a resurgence in inflation fears, while a jump in Treasury yields also put pressure
The US Fed is now in a dilemma. High interest rates are like high blood pressure. Investment banks, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the US government are complaining the high interest rates. It is unknown what bomb will explode. If interest rates are not lowered, something bad will happen. If interest rates are lowered, where will the huge amount of US dollars and the record high US money market funds go? If they stay in the United States, inflation will explode again. The surge in gold prices is a prediction that the US dollar will flow to commodities, and gold has the lowest storage cost. Currently, only Chinese assets are cheap and large-scale acquisitions in the world, but the United States does not want Wall Street money to flow to China. The United
$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ Musk shared the reveal date on Friday after Reuters reported that plans for Tesla’s highly anticipated low-cost car model had been scrapped. Musk accused Reuters of “lying.” Musk has spoken about the robotaxi project for years, and it could represent a major new business for the carmaker as investors grow wary of the company during a period of slowing growth. Time to pump into earnings! In 2015, Elon Musk told shareholders that Tesla’s cars would achieve “full autonomy” within three years. In 2016, he said Tesla would able to send one of its cars on a cross-country drive without requiring any human intervention by the end of the following year. Tesla still has yet to deliver a robotaxi, au
Options Market Statistics: Intel Shares Drop and Options Pop After Revealing $7 Billion Operating Loss for Foundry Business $Intel(INTC)$ shares fell by 8.22%, closing at $40.33. Its options trading volume was 0.53 million. Call contracts account for 52.1% of the total trading volume. The most traded calls are contracts of $45 strike price that expire on Apr. 5th. The total volume reaches 11,646 with an open interest of 24,023. The most traded puts are contracts of a $44 strike price that expires on Apr. 5th; the volume is 8,453 contracts with an open interest of 4,137. On Tuesday, Intel reported that its foundry business recorded sales of $18.9 billion in 2023, with an operating loss of $7 billion. The l
$SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY), an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of the broader S&P 500 Index, hit a record intraday high of $524.61 on March 28 and a record closing high of $523.17 a day before. On Wednesday, the ETF closed at $519.41, up 0.11%. ⚠️ Trading tips: looking at calls above 522.8 and dip buy between 517 to 518 for a reversal play. The SPY has resistance above at the all-time high of 524.61 and at the psychologically important 525 mark. The ETF has support below at 517.29 and at 510.13. More Fed speakers coming up with NFP report on Friday at 7:30am to move the market. Trade the trend Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell&nbs
Oil prices are rising due to a combination of factors, including: * Supply cuts by major oil producers: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia have agreed to cut production, limiting the global oil supply. * Rising demand: As the global economy recovers from the pandemic, demand for oil is increasing. This is particularly evident in China, the world's second-largest economy. * Geopolitical tensions: Recent events in the Middle East, such as the Israeli airstrike on an Iranian embassy in Syria, have raised concerns about disruptions to oil supplies. $Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLE)$ should be challenging its all time high at 100 soon. $WTI Crude O
Chip Makers Are Weighing the Quake Damage. Expect a Boost to DRAM Prices The chip industry is sorting through the production fallout from Tuesday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, the island's strongest temblor in 25 years. At least nine people were killed by the quake, while more than 900 were injured. U.S. semiconductor manufacturers remain highly reliant on Taiwan-based chip factories. That spurred Congress to pass the CHIPS Act, which provides government support for the construction of new U.S. chip-fabrication capacity by Intel and others. Early indications suggest the damage to Taiwan-based chip factories from the earthquake were modest. But the quake comes at a time when a rebound in memory demand and a severe shortage of capacity for producing the high-end processors used in ge
TSLS Direxion Daily Tesla Bear 1X ETF - A Short Term Tactical Bet on Tesla's Downward Momentum
🌟🌟🌟$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ has just released its production and delivery numbers for Q124 which fell short of expectations. As a result, Tesla's share price was down on Friday and in the past 5 days, Tesla has dropped 6.3%. Tesla is now down 33% year todate. In contrast $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ is up almost 10% year todate. Tesla produced 433,371 EVs during Q1 24, down from 495,000 in the 4th quarter of 2023 and 441,000 in Q123. Q124 deliveries of 386,810 were down from 485,000 and 423,000 respectively in Q423 and Q123. Tesla said that decline in volumes was partially due to the early phase of th
$MoneyLion Inc.(ML)$$SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$ Digital Bank Fintech SoFI or ML? 🌟💰💵 Digital Open Banking has the potential to revolutionize the way the world conducts banking. Though in its infancy it has started to change the ecosystem for good. Around the world, Open Banking is rapidly transforming the way that financial institutions operate. It increases transparency and opens up to new product opportunities, with banks sharing information in a secure, standardized format to authorized organizations. With Fintech companies having been on the forefront of the Open Banking movement in the past, traditional institutions have begun to seize the opportunities created by Open Banking. According to Boston
$Apple(AAPL)$ Falling Apples!! For the first time in a long time, I confess my confidence about $Apple(AAPL)$ is finally “stirred and shakened”. Bad news : one after another. This comes about after a bout of bad presses hitting the media in the past 2 weeks. (see below) To me, this spells (possible): - Subscription loss. - More competitive landscape outside of the Apple environment. - Price matching from Apple (??) in order to rein in outflow ? - Gradual reduction dependence on Apps store in EU; especially on repeated visit/s. - Future legal battles to further incite anitrust behaviour of Apple Inc
In the first quarter of 2024, the T-Rex 2X Long NVIDIA Daily Target ETF (NVDX) stood out with a surge of over 200%, while the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Fund (GBTC) also emerged as a focal point of attention.As of March 31st, the S&P 500 index has risen by 10.6% year-to-date, surpassing last year's return rate of 7.5%.As usual, some ETFs outperformed the market while others showed mediocre performance. This article will assess the top 10 performing ETFs of the year.Among these top 10 performers, 9 are leveraged ETFs, while the other 3 are single-stock ETFs related to the rapidly growing artificial intelligence chip company NVIDIA.The T-Rex 2X Long NVIDIA Daily Target ETF (NVDX) is the top-performing ETF of the year, boasting a return rate of 205% so far.The only non-leveraged ETF in the t
Chinese stocks are now looking to recoup some US$10 trillion of losses from the last three years, with valuations hovering near a decade-low. The MSCI China Index tracking more than 700 companies traded at home and abroad has rebounded 12 per cent from a January low, ranking it among the best performers among major global peers during that period. Foreign investors' appetite for Chinese stocks continues to recover as they become less pessimistic about the prospects of a recovery. Meanwhile, geopolitical conflicts will also continue to drive global investors to diversify or leave China and to fear being discriminated against globally for being friendly to the country. That means China will continue to face difficulties attracting investment. Let's look into a few Chinese ADRs and see h
Is Coinbase A Buy As Cathie Wood sold USD 6.4 million worth of Coinbase shares?
🌟🌟🌟Cathie Wood sold USD 6.4 million worth of Coinbase shares on Thursday. Yet on the same day, Oppenheimer raised$Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ target price to USD 276, up from previous Target price of USD 200. Coinbase's share price has dropped 3.4% today and in the past 5 days, it is now down almost 8%. However Coinbase is up 53% year todate and in 2023, it has jumped a massive 292%. Coinbase has just announced that it can legally operate in Canada after registering in Ontario under the Canadian Securities Administrators. Coinbase said that it is the first and largest international crypto exchange to receive a restricted dealer registration in the country. This is part of Coinbase internatio
Preview of the week starting 08 Apr 2024 - Q1/2024 earnings starts - will BlackRock sink?
Public Holidays Singapore celebrates Eid al-Fitr (Hari Raya Puaa) on 10 Apr 2024 (Wed). There are no public holidays in Hong Kong, China and America in the coming week. Economic Calendar (08 Apr 2024) Notable Highlights The most watched data in the coming week from the economic calendar will be CPI. The CPI is also known as the inflation indicator. A forecast of 3.4% CPI year on year is on the cards. Should the figure turn out to be higher, the market is expected to turn bearish and vice versa. There will be updates of 10-year note auctions and 30-year bond auctions. These are part of the Federal Reserve funding the spending deficit. Initial jobless claims will also be a key macro data that the Federal Reserve will look into as they ponder the next interest rate decision Crude Oil Invento
EV market, a market full of competition and challenges now. More competition and flagging demand in the Chinese market hit leading battery and plug-in hybrid vehicle makers. BYD reported a 42 per cent fall in its electric vehicle deliveries in the first three months of the year compared to the final quarter of 2023, allowing Tesla to reclaim the crown as the world's largest seller of battery electric vehicles. However, Tesla is also coming under increased pressure due to increased competition and an ageing line-up, something that may see BYD overtake it in EV sales again in the coming months. Let's look into a few EV related counters. We will begin with Tesla. Tesla has suffered a slowdown in China, the world's largest EV market, where it faces rising competition from local rivals, ma
AI stocks seem to face some upside resistance for the past week. Most of them were unable to continue to break new high. Also, U.S. markets retraced last week, as Fed officials sounded cautious on comments on the prospect of rate cuts. Artificial intelligence (AI) spending across hardware, software, and services totaled about $200 billion last year, according to Grand View Research. But that figure is expected to soar 820% to exceed $1.8 trillion by 2030. In other words, the AI market is forecast to compound at 37% annually through the end of the decade. We know the demand is there, and it is pretty normal for the AI related stocks to pull back after rallied for few months. Let's look into a few famous AI counters. We will start with the AI leader, Nvidia. The company experienced&nb
Recently the market is hot with meme stocks again, mainly due to Trumph related counter like DJT and also AI related IPO like ALAB and Reddit. However, it is important to understand that investing in any meme stock or “meme coin” is a risky endeavour. Surges in price that cannot be explained by any company fundamentals are called asset price bubbles. Speculative bubbles are quite common in financial and cryptocurrency markets and offer opportunities to generate abnormal returns in a short period of time. We will talk about a few famous memes in this article. Well, let's start with the classic meme, $AMC Entertainment(AMC)$ . Earlier this week, the share plummeted after the theater chain indicated that it might se
Cryptocurrency exchange $Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ has been weighed under the current correction in the crypto market. Nevertheless, expectations of rate cuts in the second half of this year will help to encourage trading of risky assets like cryptocurrencies, driving up trading volumes for Coinbase. Hence, I remain bullish on Coinbase as the cryptocurrency exchange platform benefits from increased trading on cryptocurrencies and as its revenue rises with custody fees as it acts as the custodian for most of the bitcoin spot ETFs. With more and more companies jumping onto the artificial intelligence bandwagon to embrace AI solutions as part of their digital transformation and productivity improvement st