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Geopolitics Fade, Policy Decides: The Fed and AI Narrative Take Center Stage As the holiday lull fades, the "Santa Rally" euphoria is yielding to structural reality. The S&P 500 is entering a consolidation plateau, with immediate upside appearing capped. While renewed geopolitical noise (Venezuela) lingers in the background, the primary focus has shifted: smart money is pivoting from broad index chasing to precision hunting ahead of major macro catalysts———from Trump's Fed pick to Friday's jobs data. Macro: Geopolitical Tremors & Fed Signals Focus: The Venezuela Oil Shift Political Motivation: Approaching the midterms, a tougher stance on the Maduro regime serves to consolidate and boost support among Latino voters in the US. Short Term: Supply Shock. As hidden barrels hit the publ

$Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares(TSLL)$ Following last Friday’s delivery numbers, Tesla saw a sharp sell-off driven more by sentiment than fundamentals. While deliveries missed expectations, the outcome was not disastrous, particularly in the context of Tesla’s ongoing strategic pivot, i.e. its transition toward higher-optionality businesses such as robotaxi, energy generation and storage, as well as potential long-term synergies with SpaceX and Grok AI. It's potentially oversold & this sets up a tactical rebound opportunity. Near term sentiment could see incremental support following reports of Elon Musk’s dinner with President Trump, which reinforces expectations of a more favourable regulatory & policy backdrop. Overall, risk-rewar

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🌍 Global tensions are cranking up the heat as U.S. forces snag Venezuela's leader on narco-terrorism raps, sparking wild swings in crude prices hovering around $60-61 a barrel. This bombshell could squeeze supplies, pumping energy plays while safe-havens like gold glitter brighter. Meanwhile, Wall Street's kicking off the year with a chip-fueled bounce—semis up 4% as AI hype refuses to die, pushing Nasdaq edges higher despite early jitters. S&P 500 clings to gains at 6,858, Dow nudges up 0.3%, but watch for volatility as Fed whispers of dovish shifts loom. Asia's smashing records too, with tech darlings leading the charge amid China's stimulus buzz. And don't sleep on today's ISM Manufacturing PMI drop—clocking in at a chilly 48.2 for November, signaling slowdown vibes that might nudge

Oil will likely have a sustained slide, what with US tightening their grip on Venezuela. Interesting to note that Trump did not try to install the opposition that likely won the elections, had Maduro not rigged the results. Maduro's vice president, Rodriguez's tone does not seem to be friendly to Trump though and it is unlikely that the US president will take it quietly. She (or the powers that be) might have made a deal for the US to control the oil to allow her to stay in power as interim president for now.

In this market, quality and discipline are more important than chasing hype. I focus on profitable large caps with strong cash flow, stagger my entries instead of going all‑in, and always set clear stop‑loss levels so one bad trade will not destroy my capital. When sentiment turns extreme, I prefer to hold extra cash and only scale into stocks or ETFs that I am willing to keep for the long term, instead of gambling on short‑term memes.

1. Which High Ex-dividend Stock (on 5 January ~ 9 January) do You Like the Most?Be Sure To Check Out the Last Chance to Buy the Top 10 High dividend stocks going to Ex-dividends This Week: many companies like $Landstar(LSTR)$ and $JPMorgan Chase(JPM)$ showing below are about to give decent dividends into "your pocket".Editor's notes:A dividend-paying stock ex-dividend date, or ex-date, is very important to investors. In a nutshell, if you buy a dividend stock before the ex-dividend date, then you will receive the next upcoming dividend payment.If you purchase the stock on or after the ex-dividend date, you will not receive the dividend. Some investors utilize strategies whereby they will purchase stocks ju

Up? Indices look like an ascending triangle over last few months... higher lows and flat top resistance. let's hope for a breakout soon!

Today my stock in focus is $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , and CES this week highlights why it remains central to the next phase of AI. CES 2026 is less about concepts and more about AI becoming physical and productive, and Nvidia is clearly leaning into this shift. Instead of emphasizing consumer GPUs, Nvidia is pushing “Physical AI,” embedding compute into robots, factories, and real-world systems where AI creates measurable value. What stands out is Nvidia’s strategic divergence from AMD and Intel. While they stay focused on edge and PC AI, Nvidia is expanding into robotics, industrial automation, and AI-defined vehicles. This positions Nvidia for a larger, longer-term opportunity beyond traditional hardware cycles. CES reinforces my view that Nvidia’s stre

Think the AI stocks and semiconductors stocks would continue to inch up. So overall the US market will inch up.

Markets are constantly changing — and we want to know what you think.💡 Got a hot take? A risky bet? A winning play?Share your ideas below and climb the leaderboard!Let’s break it down. These stories drove the markets.More NewsTiger Community TOP10 Tickers🎯 S&P500 Most Active Today 👉@TigerObserverWeekly Five Key Areas: Earnings, Macro, Singapore Stocks, Options, FuturesCovering five major market segments this week to help you stay ahead of market trends and plan your trades effectively!🌍 Monday — Macro EconomyU.S. stocks ended 2025 with mixed results during the holiday-shortened trading week, as most major indexes achieved double-digit annual gains for

With 2025 officially over, EV ‘titan’ $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ finds itself at a precarious crossroads. While the broader markets have enjoyed a year defined by AI fervor, TSLA’s impending Q4 2025 earnings report is shaping up to be a sobering "reality check" for his fan-base investors. Far from the "to the moon" narrative often peddled by its leadership, recent data suggests continual significant disconnect between its valuation and fundamental performance. The Vanishing US$2.9 Billion Fortune: The L&F Warning The most damning evidence for a disappointing Q4 lies in the collapse of TSLA's supply chain relationships, with L&F Co., the South Korean producer of high-nickel cathodes. On 29 Dec 2025, L&F disclosed a staggering regulatory updat

Here are the macro snapshot for the risk appetite, interest rate direction, and volatility regime heading into the first full trading week of 2026 (January 5–9). This overview integrates market positioning, policy expectations, and broad asset trends based on the latest available institutional research and market commentary. Market Summary: First Trading Day of 2026 (Friday, Jan 2) Wall Street kicked off 2026 with a mixed but resilient session. Investors engaged in a "rotation" trade, moving capital away from some 2025 high-flyers (like Tesla) into cyclical and industrial sectors, while semiconductor demand kept the tech-heavy indices afloat. S&P 500: Closed slightly higher (+0.19%), finishing around 6,858. The index struggled to break the psychological 6,900 barrier, resulting in chop

From Search Queries to Self-Learning Systems Baidu’s recent 9% surge has been treated as a feel-good rally in a battered China tech name. I think that misses the point. The market continues to value $BIDU-SW(09888)$ as a search engine with advertising ambition, yet the company is quietly building something far more ambitious: a self-reinforcing machine that learns from the real world, improves itself, and then sells that intelligence back to everyone else. Baidu transforms data into a self-learning AI machine The most underappreciated piece of this puzzle is Apollo. Few investors realise that even if robotaxis themselves never turn a profit, the data they generate may already be paying dividends by improving Baidu’s AI models and infrastructure.

This article is released by MorningStar on 31Dec2025. This is not financial advice. Please do our due diligence. 10 Best Stocks to Buy Now—January 2026 The 10 most undervalued stocks from our Best Companies to Own list as of Dec. 30, 2025, were: Campbell’s CPB Coloplast CLPBY Clorox CLX Yum China YUMC Constellation Brands STZ Zimmer Biomet ZBH Tyler Technologies TYL Ambev ABEV Diageo DEO Dassault Systèmes DASTY Here’s a little bit about why we like each of these companies at these prices, along with some key Morningstar metrics. All data is as of market close on Dec. 30. Here are 3 of the write-ups from the same Morningstar article. Personally, I do understand the criteria used and I may avoid some these companies. Campbell’s Price/Fair Value: 0.47 Morningstar Uncertainty Rating: Medium Mo

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$  $Exxon Mobil(XOM)$   🧠 Why this week matters more than it looks I’m positioning into the week of 05Jan26 🇺🇸 with the understanding that this is not a quiet reset week. It’s the first structural inflection of the year. Liquidity is still recovering from the holiday hangover, but desks are reopening, participation is normalising, and flow signals are becoming materially more reliable. At the same time, realised volatility remains compressed across indices, with VIX sitting in the mid-14s, even as the calendar stacks CES narrative risk, multiple Fed speakers, and the December Jobs Report into

(From MorningStar article dated 02 Jan 2026). This article is extracted from MorningStar’s website. Let us do our due diligence. The Top-Performing Dividend Leaders of 2025 CVS Health CVS Invesco IVZ Hasbro HAS Lincoln Financial Group LNC Comerica CMA Travel + Leisure TNL Ford F UGI UGI OneMain Holdings OMF Citizens Financial Group CFG How Have Dividend Stocks Performed? Over the past month, the Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index, which captures the 100 highest-yielding names with stable and sustainable payouts, rose 1.45%. The broad Morningstar Dividend Composite Index gained 0.22%. In the 12 months leading up to Dec. 31, the dividend leaders index gained 15.49%, and the dividend composite index gained 15.49%. The overall US stock market, as measured by the Morningstar US Market Index, ha

🌍 Buckle up, folks – the world just flipped upside down! In a high-stakes showdown that feels straight out of a thriller, US forces unleashed precision airstrikes across Caracas, snagging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a daring raid. 🚁🔥 Dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, this blockbuster move involved elite Delta Force commandos storming their compound, dodging resistance, and whisking them away via helicopters to the USS Iwo Jima. From there? A direct flight to New York, where they're now locked up in a Brooklyn detention center, slapped with fresh indictments for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and arms conspiracy in the Southern District. ⚖️🇺🇸 Maduro, once the iron-fisted ruler of a crumbling regime, now faces American justice on home turf – talk abo

Buckle up, folks—this is massive! Venezuela packs a whopping 303 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, the biggest stash on the planet. 🔥 With oil buzzing around $58 per barrel right now, that treasure trove clocks in at a jaw-dropping $17.5 trillion. 😱 Even if the US flips it at half price, we're talking $8.8 trillion straight into the economy—enough to supercharge everything from energy independence to global power plays. Picture this: Just four powerhouse nations—Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Canada—dominate over half the world's proven reserves. Venezuela leads the pack with 303B barrels, followed by Saudi Arabia at 267B, Iran at 209B, and Canada at 163B. Iraq holds 145B, UAE 113B, Kuwait 102B, Russia 80B, Libya 48B, and the US itself at 45B. The rest? Scattered among smal

Think of Venezuela’s oil like a giant wok full of super-thick char kway teow paste 🍜 — looks impressive, smells powerful, but you can’t serve it straight. The “Heavy Oil = Too Thick to Eat” Problem Venezuela’s oil is like char kway teow sauce that’s gone cold and solid. At room temperature, it’s almost like black glue. You can’t pour it, you can’t cook with it, and customers won’t touch it. To make it usable, you must add lighter ingredients: Think of condensate and naphtha as oil, stock, or water They thin the sauce so it can flow, be cooked, and finally served Without these lighter ingredients, the “dish” just sits in the wok — inedible. Why Venezuela Can’t Just “Sell Oil and Collect Money” Most people imagine oil countries like a hawker selling Outram Park Fried Kway Teow: Cook → s

Geopolitics Fade, Policy Decides: The Fed and AI Narrative Take Center Stage As the holiday lull fades, the "Santa Rally" euphoria is yielding to structural reality. The S&P 500 is entering a consolidation plateau, with immediate upside appearing capped. While renewed geopolitical noise (Venezuela) lingers in the background, the primary focus has shifted: smart money is pivoting from broad index chasing to precision hunting ahead of major macro catalysts———from Trump's Fed pick to Friday's jobs data. Macro: Geopolitical Tremors & Fed Signals Focus: The Venezuela Oil Shift Political Motivation: Approaching the midterms, a tougher stance on the Maduro regime serves to consolidate and boost support among Latino voters in the US. Short Term: Supply Shock. As hidden barrels hit the publ

With 2025 officially over, EV ‘titan’ $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ finds itself at a precarious crossroads. While the broader markets have enjoyed a year defined by AI fervor, TSLA’s impending Q4 2025 earnings report is shaping up to be a sobering "reality check" for his fan-base investors. Far from the "to the moon" narrative often peddled by its leadership, recent data suggests continual significant disconnect between its valuation and fundamental performance. The Vanishing US$2.9 Billion Fortune: The L&F Warning The most damning evidence for a disappointing Q4 lies in the collapse of TSLA's supply chain relationships, with L&F Co., the South Korean producer of high-nickel cathodes. On 29 Dec 2025, L&F disclosed a staggering regulatory updat

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$  $Exxon Mobil(XOM)$   🧠 Why this week matters more than it looks I’m positioning into the week of 05Jan26 🇺🇸 with the understanding that this is not a quiet reset week. It’s the first structural inflection of the year. Liquidity is still recovering from the holiday hangover, but desks are reopening, participation is normalising, and flow signals are becoming materially more reliable. At the same time, realised volatility remains compressed across indices, with VIX sitting in the mid-14s, even as the calendar stacks CES narrative risk, multiple Fed speakers, and the December Jobs Report into

Here are the macro snapshot for the risk appetite, interest rate direction, and volatility regime heading into the first full trading week of 2026 (January 5–9). This overview integrates market positioning, policy expectations, and broad asset trends based on the latest available institutional research and market commentary. Market Summary: First Trading Day of 2026 (Friday, Jan 2) Wall Street kicked off 2026 with a mixed but resilient session. Investors engaged in a "rotation" trade, moving capital away from some 2025 high-flyers (like Tesla) into cyclical and industrial sectors, while semiconductor demand kept the tech-heavy indices afloat. S&P 500: Closed slightly higher (+0.19%), finishing around 6,858. The index struggled to break the psychological 6,900 barrier, resulting in chop

🌍 Global tensions are cranking up the heat as U.S. forces snag Venezuela's leader on narco-terrorism raps, sparking wild swings in crude prices hovering around $60-61 a barrel. This bombshell could squeeze supplies, pumping energy plays while safe-havens like gold glitter brighter. Meanwhile, Wall Street's kicking off the year with a chip-fueled bounce—semis up 4% as AI hype refuses to die, pushing Nasdaq edges higher despite early jitters. S&P 500 clings to gains at 6,858, Dow nudges up 0.3%, but watch for volatility as Fed whispers of dovish shifts loom. Asia's smashing records too, with tech darlings leading the charge amid China's stimulus buzz. And don't sleep on today's ISM Manufacturing PMI drop—clocking in at a chilly 48.2 for November, signaling slowdown vibes that might nudge

From Search Queries to Self-Learning Systems Baidu’s recent 9% surge has been treated as a feel-good rally in a battered China tech name. I think that misses the point. The market continues to value $BIDU-SW(09888)$ as a search engine with advertising ambition, yet the company is quietly building something far more ambitious: a self-reinforcing machine that learns from the real world, improves itself, and then sells that intelligence back to everyone else. Baidu transforms data into a self-learning AI machine The most underappreciated piece of this puzzle is Apollo. Few investors realise that even if robotaxis themselves never turn a profit, the data they generate may already be paying dividends by improving Baidu’s AI models and infrastructure.

(From MorningStar article dated 02 Jan 2026). This article is extracted from MorningStar’s website. Let us do our due diligence. The Top-Performing Dividend Leaders of 2025 CVS Health CVS Invesco IVZ Hasbro HAS Lincoln Financial Group LNC Comerica CMA Travel + Leisure TNL Ford F UGI UGI OneMain Holdings OMF Citizens Financial Group CFG How Have Dividend Stocks Performed? Over the past month, the Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index, which captures the 100 highest-yielding names with stable and sustainable payouts, rose 1.45%. The broad Morningstar Dividend Composite Index gained 0.22%. In the 12 months leading up to Dec. 31, the dividend leaders index gained 15.49%, and the dividend composite index gained 15.49%. The overall US stock market, as measured by the Morningstar US Market Index, ha

1. Which High Ex-dividend Stock (on 5 January ~ 9 January) do You Like the Most?Be Sure To Check Out the Last Chance to Buy the Top 10 High dividend stocks going to Ex-dividends This Week: many companies like $Landstar(LSTR)$ and $JPMorgan Chase(JPM)$ showing below are about to give decent dividends into "your pocket".Editor's notes:A dividend-paying stock ex-dividend date, or ex-date, is very important to investors. In a nutshell, if you buy a dividend stock before the ex-dividend date, then you will receive the next upcoming dividend payment.If you purchase the stock on or after the ex-dividend date, you will not receive the dividend. Some investors utilize strategies whereby they will purchase stocks ju

Markets are constantly changing — and we want to know what you think.💡 Got a hot take? A risky bet? A winning play?Share your ideas below and climb the leaderboard!Let’s break it down. These stories drove the markets.More NewsTiger Community TOP10 Tickers🎯 S&P500 Most Active Today 👉@TigerObserverWeekly Five Key Areas: Earnings, Macro, Singapore Stocks, Options, FuturesCovering five major market segments this week to help you stay ahead of market trends and plan your trades effectively!🌍 Monday — Macro EconomyU.S. stocks ended 2025 with mixed results during the holiday-shortened trading week, as most major indexes achieved double-digit annual gains for

This article is released by MorningStar on 31Dec2025. This is not financial advice. Please do our due diligence. 10 Best Stocks to Buy Now—January 2026 The 10 most undervalued stocks from our Best Companies to Own list as of Dec. 30, 2025, were: Campbell’s CPB Coloplast CLPBY Clorox CLX Yum China YUMC Constellation Brands STZ Zimmer Biomet ZBH Tyler Technologies TYL Ambev ABEV Diageo DEO Dassault Systèmes DASTY Here’s a little bit about why we like each of these companies at these prices, along with some key Morningstar metrics. All data is as of market close on Dec. 30. Here are 3 of the write-ups from the same Morningstar article. Personally, I do understand the criteria used and I may avoid some these companies. Campbell’s Price/Fair Value: 0.47 Morningstar Uncertainty Rating: Medium Mo

🌍 Buckle up, folks – the world just flipped upside down! In a high-stakes showdown that feels straight out of a thriller, US forces unleashed precision airstrikes across Caracas, snagging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a daring raid. 🚁🔥 Dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, this blockbuster move involved elite Delta Force commandos storming their compound, dodging resistance, and whisking them away via helicopters to the USS Iwo Jima. From there? A direct flight to New York, where they're now locked up in a Brooklyn detention center, slapped with fresh indictments for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and arms conspiracy in the Southern District. ⚖️🇺🇸 Maduro, once the iron-fisted ruler of a crumbling regime, now faces American justice on home turf – talk abo

$Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares(TSLL)$ Following last Friday’s delivery numbers, Tesla saw a sharp sell-off driven more by sentiment than fundamentals. While deliveries missed expectations, the outcome was not disastrous, particularly in the context of Tesla’s ongoing strategic pivot, i.e. its transition toward higher-optionality businesses such as robotaxi, energy generation and storage, as well as potential long-term synergies with SpaceX and Grok AI. It's potentially oversold & this sets up a tactical rebound opportunity. Near term sentiment could see incremental support following reports of Elon Musk’s dinner with President Trump, which reinforces expectations of a more favourable regulatory & policy backdrop. Overall, risk-rewar

Buckle up, folks—this is massive! Venezuela packs a whopping 303 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, the biggest stash on the planet. 🔥 With oil buzzing around $58 per barrel right now, that treasure trove clocks in at a jaw-dropping $17.5 trillion. 😱 Even if the US flips it at half price, we're talking $8.8 trillion straight into the economy—enough to supercharge everything from energy independence to global power plays. Picture this: Just four powerhouse nations—Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Canada—dominate over half the world's proven reserves. Venezuela leads the pack with 303B barrels, followed by Saudi Arabia at 267B, Iran at 209B, and Canada at 163B. Iraq holds 145B, UAE 113B, Kuwait 102B, Russia 80B, Libya 48B, and the US itself at 45B. The rest? Scattered among smal

Although TSMC continues to aggressively expand its CoWoS capacity, supply still falls short of demand. As a result, excess demand is spilling over to other OSAT players—this has become one of the key narratives in the market recently. Chip-on-Wafer (CoW), being the most technically challenging step, is handled directly by TSMC, while Wafer-on-Substrate (WoS) is partially outsourced. WoS players are responsible for attaching the CoW to the substrate. $Amkor Technology(AMKR)$   is the largest OSAT company headquartered in the U.S., with manufacturing sites across Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Malaysia, which helps diversify geopolitical risk (many OSAT peers are heavily concentrated in Taiwan and China). Amkor also operates a fa

$Hims & Hers Health Inc.(HIMS)$ $Netflix(NFLX)$  $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$  📈 Volatility masks improving fundamentals and rising strategic value A high-conviction reset is unfolding. Volatility has dominated perception, but execution, data, and platform depth are advancing underneath the tape. I’m focused on structure, not sentiment. As of 04Jan26 🇳🇿, Hims & Hers Health ($HIMS) is stabilising after a sharp pullback, trading well off its highs despite continued operational progress. The market is reacting to a deceleration narrative rather than a deterioration narrative, and those are not the same thing. This pattern is familiar. $ME

Trump has released photos showing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captured aboard a U.S. amphibious assault ship—eyes and ears covered—as he is transported to New York to stand trial.   Strangely, the look almost resembles a hip-hop star. With the regime toppled, the obvious question now is: how do you profit from nation-building in Venezuela? Distressed sovereign debt is the most direct play. Venezuelan bonds still trade around 10–20 cents on the dollar, but post-regime restructuring estimates point to 30–55 cents recoveries—implying 2–3x upside. Asset managers and restru

Today my stock in focus is $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , and CES this week highlights why it remains central to the next phase of AI. CES 2026 is less about concepts and more about AI becoming physical and productive, and Nvidia is clearly leaning into this shift. Instead of emphasizing consumer GPUs, Nvidia is pushing “Physical AI,” embedding compute into robots, factories, and real-world systems where AI creates measurable value. What stands out is Nvidia’s strategic divergence from AMD and Intel. While they stay focused on edge and PC AI, Nvidia is expanding into robotics, industrial automation, and AI-defined vehicles. This positions Nvidia for a larger, longer-term opportunity beyond traditional hardware cycles. CES reinforces my view that Nvidia’s stre

Think of Venezuela’s oil like a giant wok full of super-thick char kway teow paste 🍜 — looks impressive, smells powerful, but you can’t serve it straight. The “Heavy Oil = Too Thick to Eat” Problem Venezuela’s oil is like char kway teow sauce that’s gone cold and solid. At room temperature, it’s almost like black glue. You can’t pour it, you can’t cook with it, and customers won’t touch it. To make it usable, you must add lighter ingredients: Think of condensate and naphtha as oil, stock, or water They thin the sauce so it can flow, be cooked, and finally served Without these lighter ingredients, the “dish” just sits in the wok — inedible. Why Venezuela Can’t Just “Sell Oil and Collect Money” Most people imagine oil countries like a hawker selling Outram Park Fried Kway Teow: Cook → s

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Oil will likely have a sustained slide, what with US tightening their grip on Venezuela. Interesting to note that Trump did not try to install the opposition that likely won the elections, had Maduro not rigged the results. Maduro's vice president, Rodriguez's tone does not seem to be friendly to Trump though and it is unlikely that the US president will take it quietly. She (or the powers that be) might have made a deal for the US to control the oil to allow her to stay in power as interim president for now.