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It was a disappointing week for the S&P 500. The index dropped just 0.15% from its previous week’s close to exit the trading week ending on Friday, 20 June 2025, at 5,967.84.
Bitcoin and the crypto market could now be finishing a correction within a bullish trend from a technical point of view and from an Elliott wave perspective.
Despite threats, the Iranian regime seems to have taken no retaliatory action against the USA, while it may also be losing its ability to bother Israel with missiles.
We entered this year with a weak if expanding economy. The most recent QCEW suggests that in all of 2024 only about 0.8%, or 1.25 million, new jobs were added, less than the likely population growth last year.
We discuss what a dividend portfolio should look like, how much he allocates to his dividend investments and how he manages the risk on his dividend stocks & ETFs.
There is no point in preparing your portfolio for the new Big Beautiful Bill, just as there is no point in preparing your home for a Chinese invasion. Both are possible, but we are not there yet.
The AI hardware-related (semiconductor/computer chip/wafer) segment consists of hundreds of companies in 7 distinct sub-segments, each of which has its own unique dynamics and growth trajectories, which MunAiMarkets has put into 7 model portfolios.
We discuss the market’s fragile equilibrium as war risk builds in the Middle East, rate cuts get priced in for September, and the market stays glued to key technical levels.
Tariffs on imported goods can have a wide ripple effect on prices, especially in the auto industry where supply chains are global, complex, and highly sensitive to cost changes.
Amazon.com Inc. closed at $209.69 on June 20, 2025, down 1.33%. The e-commerce giant has been making headlines with its healthcare expansion in India and the stark warning from CEO Andy Jassy about the potential job impacts from growing AI adoption.
The short-term downtrend has continued, although its recent movement has been more sideways than downward. Additionally, July is fast-approaching, and seasonality seems to suggest a nice rally could occur next month.
The activities of the past few years of the major indexes can be described with a couple of simple facts: they have broken important ascending trendlines and their recent massive rally has achieved nothing except to hammer out a “lower high“.
There is an apparent bidding war to buy GMS Inc. Earlier this week, the company reported that it got an unsolicited proposal from QXO, Inc. – a rival building products distributor that went public in January. Home Depot has since entered the ring.
While the bears contend that the escalating war in the Middle East will cause oil and, in turn, inflation to spike, both the markets have held up remarkably well through Friday. Should we be worried?
The story of lithium over the last five years goes something like this: Demand went through the roof in late 2021 and throughout 2022, as the EV and renewables boom took off in full force. Given this, Albemarle may be worth consideration.
Tesla Inc. stock edged higher to close the week at $322.16 on June 20, 2025, as the electric vehicle giant prepared to launch its highly anticipated robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. After hours, shares nudged up further to $322.71.
We now have a Middle East war that’s threatening to interrupt the supply of oil. It’s official. We are back in the 1970's, which was a decade of existential risks and commensurately huge opportunities.
After completing the bearish cycle from November 2024 at the extreme of a double-three correction, Texas Instruments has surged by over 45%. This rally is re-establishing the all-time bullish cycle.
Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the technology space with this recap. Microsoft is prepared to withdraw from talks with OpenAI over the future of their alliance.
Amid the ongoing uncertainty, cautious investors looking for stable income and ways to protect their capital may consider holding onto or investing in dividend-paying stocks. Here are three such stocks that recently declared dividend hikes.
U.S. equities continue to see tepid returns in 2025, weighed down by a weak dollar and trade disruptions. Instead, several global equity markets—from the Hang Seng Index to European stocks—are booming.
Nvidia Inc. stock is cheap based on free cash flow (FCF) price targets. Investors can short out-of-the-money (OTM) NVDA put options to make a 1-month 2.4% yield.
Organigram declined 11.6% during week ending June 20th and, while there wasn’t a single headline-grabbing event the combination of broader market jitters, leadership changes, and recent gains made OGI vulnerable to a pullback:
Turn on any financial news channel, scroll through LinkedIn, or attend an investment conference—you’re bombarded with success stories. Hearing only victories paints a false picture of investment reality.
