Technology

New Risk: Powell Stoking Risk-On Trades

Mar 7, 2024 2 min read paid

Fed Chair Jerome Powell's dovish congressional testimony yesterday and today stoked the hot trades in the financial markets from Nvidia to bitcoin to gold: "We're waiting to become more confident that inflation is moving sustainably at 2%. When we do get that confidence, and we're not far from it, it'll be appropriate to begin to dial back the level of restriction,

Ed Yardeni

Nvidia For Fun & Profit

Feb 21, 2024 2 min read paid

As a result of the AI gold rush, billions of dollars are being spent on Nvidia’s GPUs. They seem to be the only game in town. Huge investments in AI-related hardware and software are likely, eventually, to boost productivity significantly. That’s great for our Roaring 2020s scenario. We simply don’t know at this time how long “eventually” will turn out to be. The lack of numerous suppliers

Ed Yardeni

38,000

Jan 22, 2024 2 min read paid

The DJIA rose to a new record high of 38,001.81 today (chart). The DJTA is lagging behind the DJIA and remains below its record high. We are expecting that the DJTA will soon confirm the bullish trend of the stock market by rising to a new record high too. In extended trading, United Airlines rose more than 6% after reporting strong Q4 results. Investors are anticipating that Q4

Ed Yardeni

Market Call: Three Scenarios

Jan 21, 2024 2 min read

We now see three possible historical precedents for the economy, the Fed, and the stock market's performance ahead: (1) The 1920s (with a subjective probability of 60%). This is our base case "Roaring 2020s" scenario. We've been discussing it since the start of the current decade. Our basic premise is that a chronic shortage of labor is forcing companies to use technological innovations to

Ed Yardeni

NVIDIA Leads The Way

Jan 8, 2024 2 min read paid

Nvidia led the stock market higher today after the world's most valuable chipmaker announced new desktop graphics processors taking advantage of artificial intelligence. The company's stock climbed 6.4% to end at $522.53, its highest close ever (chart). Nvidia's rally boosted the PHLX Semiconductor index by 3.3%. Semiconductors and related technology companies are benefitting from the enthusiasm about AI. Is it hype?

Ed Yardeni

Are Stock Valuations Rerating?

Oct 26, 2023 2 min read

The economic news today was very good. But the stock market sold off sharply for the second day in a row led by a 1.90% drop in the Nasdaq, while the S&P 500 fell 1.19% today (chart). That's even though the bond market behaved with the 10-year Treasury yield falling from 4.985% at 8:25 am to 4.851% by the close. But

Ed Yardeni

Another Tech Wreck?

Oct 25, 2023 2 min read paid

The market chose to go down today on Google's disappointing Q3 earnings report rather than Microsoft's upside surprise on Tuesday after the close. Contributing to today's selloff was the rebound in the 10-year bond yield back up to 4.95%. Tech has been weighing on the market since mid-July as the yield rose by 100bps. The Nasdaq is down 10.7% since its 2023

Ed Yardeni

Bull Market or Rally in a Bear Market?

May 18, 2023 2 min read paid

Our short answer to the question posed in the title: "Bull market." The S&P 500 rose to a new high today of 4198.05 for 2023 taking out the February 2 closing high of 4179.76 (chart). The market has climbed a Wall of Worry thanks to Wall Street's Worriers, who've predicted that the banking and the debt ceiling crises could make

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Chips Are Hot Despite Recession Fears

Mar 29, 2023 2 min read paid

Semiconductor investors didn't get the recession memo. They have anticipated the industry’s improvement for many months. The S&P 500 Semiconductors industry stock price index has jumped 55.8% from its late 2022 low, as of Tuesday’s close (chart). The index remains 20.9% off of its November 29, 2021 peak. As is often the case in this industry, investors jumped into semiconductor shares before

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Disintermediation: New Problem For The Fed

Mar 10, 2023 2 min read

Yesterday's sell-off in the stock market was led by bank stocks. It was mostly triggered by fears that SVB may be the start of a financial crisis that leads to an economy-wide credit crunch and recession. As it has done often in the past, the inverted yield curve has been signaling since last summer that something could break in the financial system if the Fed continues to tighten

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US Production and LEI Signaling Softish Landing

Jun 17, 2022 2 min read paid

There was a tiny hint of a manufacturing recession in May's industrial production index, which was reported today. It is one of the four components of the Index of Coincident Economic indicators (CEI). May's Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI), also reported today, is signaling slower economic growth ahead as well: (1) The LEI, which remains near its recent record high, fell in May by 0.

Ed Yardeni

Tech Has Had a Rough Year, but What Comes Next?

May 28, 2022 3 min read

The front cover story of the May 30 BusinessWeek is titled THE GREAT TECH ROUT (linked below). Might this be the latest contrary indicator for bullishly-inclined investors? The story was actually posted on Bloomberg on Thursday, May 26 at 12:01 AM EDT. The Nasdaq fell to the year's low of 11,264.45 on Tuesday, May 24. It was up 7.7% by Friday's close.

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