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Here’s a counterintuitive thesis from a veteran market strategist: the best way to profit from the AI boom might be to stop chasing AI stocks altogether. Eric Fry, the macro investor who correctly called the dot-com bust and loaded up on "boring" non-tech plays while Cisco and Microsoft cratered 50%+, says history is rhyming again. Back in 2000-2002, he recommended shorting Softbank, Cisco, and Motorola while buying Thai hotel companies, copper miners, and French luxury brands. The result? Triple-digit gains while ...
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Earnings season is basically the Super Bowl of the stock market—everyone's watching, everyone's nervous, and someone's definitely going to surprise you. Citi just dropped a playbook for investors looking to capitalize on the chaos, and it's worth paying attention to. The bank identified 16 stocks it thinks are sitting on a goldmine of upside that Wall Street hasn't fully priced in yet. We're talking 3% to 12% pops when these companies report their Q1 numbers. That's the kind of move that ...
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When the market sells off, the usual suspects come out with their predictions. Strategists warn of further downside. Retail investors panic-sell. But there is one group that tends to cut through the noise with real conviction: corporate insiders. These are the officers and directors who actually run the companies, see the order books, and know whether the business is genuinely deteriorating or just temporarily battered by headlines.Here is the surprising part: despite March's significant stock market decline, corporate insiders as ...
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This is shaping up to be one of the most interesting bank earnings seasons in years. Yes, the macro backdrop is messy: an Iran war, oil volatility, a Fed that cannot make up its mind, and a consumer that is starting to crack. But here is the thing: the largest U.S. banks are heading into results week trading at lower forward P/E ratios than they were at the end of 2025, even as earnings estimates have actually been revised higher ...
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It's official: the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world's oil flows — is now under U.S. blockade. President Trump announced Sunday morning that the U.S. Navy will begin blocking all ships trying to enter or exit the strait, after peace talks with Iran collapsed in Islamabad. Markets that were banking on a de-escalation just got a cold bucket of water thrown on them.Here's the immediate math: the strait handles about 20 million ...
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The bull market's been on a three-year tear, and Wall Street's asking the obvious question: can it keep going? Here's the thing—most analysts think yes, but they're not all betting the same amount. By late December 2025, the S&P 500 had climbed about 18% for the year, hitting all-time highs around 6,932. That's on top of 24% gains in 2023 and 23% in 2024. The Nasdaq? Up 22.3% to roughly 23,613. Even the Dow got in on the action with a ...
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Remember when the Iran war had everyone convinced we were headed for an economic apocalypse? Yeah, about that. This week, markets decided to do a complete 180, and honestly, it was the financial equivalent of a superhero movie plot twist. On Tuesday evening, news of a ceasefire deal dropped like a mic, and investors collectively exhaled for the first time in weeks. The result? An absolute rager of a market rally that basically erased all the losses from the conflict. Let's break ...
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Well, that was close. Like, *really* close. Yesterday at 6:30 p.m., Trump posted something that didn't end with "and a whole civilization will die tonight." Instead, it was a ceasefire announcement. The markets immediately lost their minds—and honestly, they had every right to. The Dow jumped 1,200 points. The S&P 500 climbed 2.5%. The Nasdaq rocketed 3% higher. Meanwhile, oil prices did a nosedive, dropping 16% in a single day. Brent crude plummeted from $110 to $95. That's the kind of move ...
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