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Good afternoon 🐯. Introduction: In recent discussions about Shopify (Shop), its stock performance has been remarkable, demonstrating resilience and strategic prowess in the face of challenges. Analyzing the latest financial report sheds light on the company's strategies and their impact on key financial indicators. Key Points: 1. Strategic Resilience and Market Response: - Shop's stock, though not mirroring the smooth ascent of tech giants, has shown impressive growth, surging by 73.77% this year. - Embracing strategies akin to Meta, such as workforce reduction and operational efficiency enhancement, Shop's recent surge is attributed to significant cost-cutting and a strategic shift towards software focus. - Concerns about revenue growth amid substantial layoffs raised Wall Street's eye

In 2007, Warren Buffett initiated a decade-long challenge for hedge fund managers to outperform the S&P 500 index fund. After ten years, the results were clear: the S&P 500 achieved a 125.8% gain with an 8.5% annual return, outshining the best-performing hedge fund at 87% and 6.5% annually. Even the worst-performing hedge fund yielded only 21.7% with a 2% annual return. Buffett emerged victorious, affirming the supremacy of the S&P 500.Buffett attributed his success to two main factors. Firstly, he highlighted the difficulty for skilled investors to consistently beat the market. Long-term success is rare, urging investors to focus on growing alongside the market rather than outperforming it.The second factor was the management fees charged by hedge fund managers. Buffett opted

Following $Rivian Automotive, Inc.(RIVN)$ 's and $Li Auto(LI)$ 's earnings releases for their previous quarters, $Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.(FFIE)$ , $XPeng Inc.(XPEV)$ and $NIO Inc.(NIO)$ shall be next in line to report theirs on 14, 15 and 21 November respectively. Despite my optimism on the prospects of electric vehicles amidst tightening emissions controls by many developing and develop

In May we profiled a VIX player with a very aggressive trading style. He hedged his bets by selling low strike options and buying high strike options, betting that a big crash could happen this year (VIX>90). Someone made a similar move on Thursday, trading the exact same strategy before the June non-farm release, but with a less aggressive strike price:sell $VIX 20231018 27.0 CALL$buy $VIX 20231018 45.0 CALL$The trader bought 83,000 calls with an October 18 expiration date with a strike price of 45 for a total turnover of 4.49 million and sold 27,000 cal

Big tech collectively closed down yesterday due to the “special rebalancing“ while small cap $iShares Russell 2000 ETF(IWM)$ shows strength.1. Special rebalancing in $NASDAQ 100(NDX)$ to reduce big tech’s weight to 38.5%The $NASDAQ 100(NDX)$ is preparing to adjust the weightings of its 100 components, particularly focusing on the "magnificent seven" stocks: $Microsoft(MSFT)$ , $Apple(AAPL)$ , $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ , $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ , $Alphabet(GOOG)$,

Click to vote. Can you predict how will $S&P 500(.SPX)$ close on Wednesday 12 July? If you get the right answers, You may divide 1000 Tiger Coins with other Tigers. In addition, you have the chance of winning Tiger Gifts.After the June jobs report showed a cooling but still-hot picture of the labor market, investors are looking to a key inflation report due Wednesday for more clues on the economy’s health. The labor market added just 209,000 jobs in June, below economists’ expectations for a net gain of 225,000 jobs. That’s the smallest monthly gain since a decline in December 2020, but with stubbornly high wage growth ensuring inflation concerns remain embedded.What are analysts saying？Economists expec

Following a stellar start to 2023, the S&P 500 index has now recorded close to a 15% gain year-to-date. However, most of the rally has been concentrated in Large Cap US Tech stocks. The S&P 500 Ex-Information Technology Index is up less than 2% YTD, heavily underperforming the S&P. This underperformance can be attributed to the rise of Generative AI, with companies such as Nvidia, Meta and Tesla contributing to a significant portion of the gains in tech. Best-Performing Stocks of Q1 2023 | Morningstar Macroeconomic Update The US economy is showing no signs of recession despite echoes from the Fed maintaining its hawkish stance. The labour market remains extremely tight with the unemployment rate at 3.6% as of Jun 2023. Following this week’s mixed job data, traders will be looki

Throughout the day, markets oscillated between positive and negative territory. Eventually, the major indexes all closed lower, with the $DJIA(.DJI)$ posting the biggest loss of 0.6%. The $S&P 500(.SPX)$ fell 0.3%, while the $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ lost 0.1%. The Dow ended the week down nearly 2%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both fell about 1%. MAIN EVENTS Labor market - ADP - NFP The labor market is finally cooling down. Finally, maybe. The US economy added 209,000 jobs in June, below Wall Street estimates of around 225,000 jobs. This is the first time in 15 months that the employment figure has fallen below forecasts. For inflation watchers, this is real prog