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Outperforming the broader indexes and these AI chip peers, Broadcom stock is now up more than +40% in 2025, and investors may be wondering if they should buy into the post-earnings spike in AVGO.
The expectation is for Q3 earnings to increase by +5.1% from the same period last year on +6% higher revenues. This would follow earnings growth rates of +12.4% and +12.3% in 2025 Q2 and Q1, respectively.
AMD stock dropped sharply after Seaport Research downgraded shares to Neutral, citing slower AI accelerator adoption, supply chain issues, and competitive pressures.
If you think that’s Kevin Hassett opining, you’d be wrong. It’s actually CEA Chair Ed Lazear on May 8, 2008. NBER retrospectively determined that the business cycle peak was December 2007, so that a recession was underway for 4 months by that time.
Romania’s second quarter release confirms the economy is in quasi-stagnation. Public investments, mainly from EU funds, remain the main hope for a growth revival. We keep our 2025 growth forecast at 0.3% and revise 2026 to 1.4% from 1.7%
Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio is filled with quality stocks, many of which pay dividends to shareholders. Some have even paid rising dividends each year, for decades on end.
Broadcom, Inc., a direct competitor to Nvidia in AI chip making, saw its Q3 free cash flow surge again, along with a rise in its FCF margins on strong AI-related chip demand.
The EU ordered Google to end these behaviors within two months or risk a potential breakup. This marks one of the largest EU fines against a company, following the €4.12 billion Android fine in 2018.
The gold miners’ stocks just surged within spitting distance of new record highs. Achieving them will be a momentous technical and sentimental milestone, as their last record close was a shocking 14 years ago.
We started the week at 6460 and closed at 6481. Basically unchanged. Yet underneath that boring surface, we had a 90-point reversal today alone. We exploded to 6530 this morning, then crashed right back to my key 6450 level.
Initially, stocks rallied on the expectations of a rate cut at the next Fed meeting later this month. But then the wiseguys thought about it and decided to sell, sell, sell.
It has been more than a month since Trump said on August 11th that his administration was “looking at” moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III and would “make a determination over the next few weeks”.
London stocks edged higher on Friday, buoyed by gains in heavyweight banks and industrials, as investors digested corporate updates and retail sales data.
PepsiCo isn’t a growth rocket right now. North American volumes remain soft, and profitability has clearly slipped since 2023. That explains the stock’s pullback.
US job creation slowed to a crawl in August, underscoring signs of weakness in the labor market and reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will move ahead with an interest rate cut later this month.
The US added only 22K jobs, a big drop from the upward revised 79K (from 73K previously), but more importantl,y June was revised from 27K to -13K, ushering in the first negative jobs print since 2020.
Lululemon cuts earnings outlook as Trump's tariffs and elimination of duty-free shipping exemption set to cost company $240 million, sending shares down 19.78% in pre-market trading.
The Fed has cut the Fed Funds rate by 1% since late 2024, and the presumption from many market participants is that the Fed has made policy less restrictive.
The focus is on US employment today. Weak jobs growth and a tick up in the unemployment rate are expected to spur the Fed's first rate cut of the year in a couple of weeks.
The main events of next week include key data on Chinese exports and inflation, Japanese GDP and producer prices, South Korean unemployment, and Taiwanese trade.
A surge in Wall Street stocks extended into Asia, supported by further signs of a cooling labor market that heightened expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut this month.
Something you want to watch for is the resistance that forms when a stock breaks below its trend line. For most traders, once a trend line is broken, the trader simply dismisses the trend-line and forgets it never existed.
The US Dollar Index remain under pressure on Friday morning as the odds that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates rose following a series of weak jobs numbers.
Today, when quietly conventional wisdom has been turned on its head and the mere possibility of tariffs getting pulled is now seen as one of the biggest threats to the stability of the bond market!
Market indexes caught their stride today, shrugging off another weak jobs report from ADP (ADP) this morning, which was offset somewhat by a strong Q2 Productivity report and lower Unit Labor Costs.
In a perfect world, I would hardly ever mention the term “interest rates”. It’s not a particularly important concept in macroeconomics, where variables such as nominal GDP, average wages and employment are the key factors.
The precious metals selloff finally arrived on Thursday after a furious rally to start the week. Although don't start your weekend early, because we still do have the latest labor report coming out tomorrow morning.
The yield curve at the short end is almost as inverted as it was in November 2024. In fact, it’s more inverted than on January 21st, 2025, the day after Trump’s inauguration.
