(Bloomberg) — By any conventional measure, AMTD Digital Inc. is one of the world’s most overvalued stocks. The barely profitable Hong Kong financial services firm trades at more than 400 times its latest fiscal-year earnings, compared with about 6 times for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to Bloomberg-compiled data. Even after tumbling more than 90% […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management jettisoned 11 US equities in the second quarter and ended the period with just one. The hedge fund exited positions including Alphabet Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., while adding private-prison operator Geo Group Inc., which was Scion’s only long stock holding as of June 30, according […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stock bears are suddenly getting crushed. Once-dependable momentum trades are misfiring. Inflation-lashed bonds are bouncing back. After another expectations-busting week on Wall Street, sharp market reversals are baffling real-money veterans, retail speculators and quants alike. Big data surprises, including a blockbuster jobs report and a softer-than-expected July consumer price reading, have caught a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — It’s doomed, it’s a bear-market rally, a rebound that won’t last. All the mud thrown at equities over the last month may well turn out to be true. But it’s getting harder to brush aside the recovery in the S&P 500 as it hovers at a widely watched landmark in charts. Four straight […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Semiconductors stocks tumbled after Micron Technology Inc. became the latest chipmaker to warn about slowing demand, triggering concern the industry is heading into a painful downturn. In the US, the Philadelphia semiconductor index sank 4.6% on Tuesday with all 30 members in the red, its biggest fall in about two months. In Asia, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Investors have resumed shunning global stocks in favor of bonds, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists, who say the time is right to step back from US equities after the strong rally in July. Global equity funds had outflows of $2.6 billion in the week through Aug. 3, according to a note […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The July stock-market rebound has emboldened bulls hoping prices will defy the gravity of the Federal Reserve’s escalating fight against inflation. Don’t be fooled, though, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Lisa Shalett said: It’s just another false dawn. The nearly 5% gain in the S&P 500 Index this month has been supported by speculation […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Money managers betting on a sustained global rebound will be left sorely disappointed in the second half of this crushing year as a protracted bear market looms, even if inflation cools. The good news: After the historic plunge, stocks and bonds aren’t far from bottoming out. That’s the key message for Wall Street […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stanley Druckenmiller has a warning for Wall Street: The sharp decline in the stock market isn’t over just yet. “My best guess is that we’re six months into a bear market,” Druckenmiller, who runs Duquesne Family Office, said Thursday at the 2022 Sohn Investment Conference. “For those tactically trading, it’s possible the first […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The relief rally in US equities has limited scope to go much further as risks to growth remain prevalent, according to Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson. “Last week’s strength will prove to be another bear market rally in the end,” the strategist wrote in a note. “The key fundamental call we are focused on […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — From Apple Inc. to Tesla Inc., some of the biggest names in the S&P 500 Index are fueling a relentless selloff that briefly pushed the broad equities benchmark into bear market territory on Friday. The S&P 500 fell as much as 2.3%, bringing its decline to more than 20% from its record closing […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A two-year run in stocks that began at the depths of the coronavirus panic and became one of most powerful bull markets on record is on the brink of extinction. The S&P 500 slipped as much as 2% on Friday, pushing it 20% below its record closing high on Jan. 3. The drop […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — First it was a rout in the stay-at-home names that surged in the pandemic. Then speculative software makers with barely any earnings went south. Now the giant technology names whose sway on benchmarks has been decried by bears for years are dragging the market down. Dizzying as the downdraft has been, you can’t […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — It wasn’t that long ago that investors were being pilloried for rushing into stocks while a pandemic was gutting the economy. Now, with earnings estimates booming and little in forecasts to suggest a recession is hence, they can’t bail out fast enough. Limitless optimism has been replaced in two short years by a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The S&P 500 is about to drop sharply, Morgan Stanley’s Michael J. Wilson warned, as investors struggle to find havens amid fears of a recession and aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve. “With defensive stocks now expensive and offering little absolute upside, the S&P 500 appears ready to join the ongoing bear market,” […]
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