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Meme stock mania is unlikely to last

Meme stock mania is unlikely to last

Shares in GameStop and cinema chain AMC almost quadruple after Roaring Kitty tweets

Sat May 18 2024 - 06:00
What will Berkshire Hathaway do with its cash pile?

What will Berkshire Hathaway do with its cash pile?

The fact it is not spending big is being seen as a bearish sign

Tue May 14 2024 - 06:00
Apple’s AI talk cheers investors

Apple’s AI talk cheers investors

The iPad maker has been under pressure to respond to the threat from the likes of ChatGPT

Mon May 13 2024 - 06:00
Trinity, Israel and the problem with divestment of stocks

Trinity, Israel and the problem with divestment of stocks

Does divesting of perceived troublesome stocks actually make a difference?

Sun May 12 2024 - 06:00
Buffett won’t heed Musk’s suggestion to buy Tesla shares

Buffett won’t heed Musk’s suggestion to buy Tesla shares

Oracle of Omaha says he doesn’t know where the major car companies will be in five or 10 years

Sat May 11 2024 - 06:00
Google: An AI also-ran or a $2 trillion titan?

Google: An AI also-ran or a $2 trillion titan?

Don’t get suckered into joining the guessing game of who will emerge on top in AI race

Tue May 07 2024 - 05:45
Big pay rise for Smith & Nephew chief shows US-style packages have arrived in Europe

Big pay rise for Smith & Nephew chief shows US-style packages have arrived in Europe

Company says corporate talent is increasingly mobile in a globalised world and investors must pay up if they want to retain top executives

Mon May 06 2024 - 06:00
Why is Amazon still not paying a dividend?

Why is Amazon still not paying a dividend?

Retail giant reaffirms its focus on reinvestment and on using capital to generate ‘meaningful returns’

Sun May 05 2024 - 06:00
Tesla’s share price is ‘assuming incredible things’

Tesla’s share price is ‘assuming incredible things’

Company’s $565bn valuation implies investors are already paying for the robotics and AI business ‘Musk wants everyone to start believing Tesla will become’

Sat May 04 2024 - 06:00
Expectations matter for tech investors

Expectations matter for tech investors

Tesla shares rose despite an earnings miss, while Meta’s stock plunged after a beat

Tue Apr 30 2024 - 06:00
Trump Media’s convenient complaint about short sellers

Trump Media’s convenient complaint about short sellers

Company CEO has asked Nasdaq and US Congress to investigate possible manipulation by shorts

Mon Apr 29 2024 - 06:00
Swiftonomics: can Taylor Swift boost her record label’s share price?

Swiftonomics: can Taylor Swift boost her record label’s share price?

Maybe not. Swift ‘moves the needle’, says Bank of America, ‘but only to an extent’

Sun Apr 28 2024 - 13:22
Tesla shares rebound, but doubts remain

Tesla shares rebound, but doubts remain

Elon Musk’s firm facing challenge from cheaper rivals

Sat Apr 27 2024 - 06:00
Shares sink when CEOs change the subject and move their targets

Shares sink when CEOs change the subject and move their targets

Study finds investors should be concerned when companies change the focus of their discussions

Tue Apr 23 2024 - 06:00
Should investors be alarmed by Iran-Israel war risks?

Should investors be alarmed by Iran-Israel war risks?

A massive regional conflict could see oil prices spiking across the globe

Mon Apr 22 2024 - 06:00
Leaving the London stock market won’t cure Shell’s share price woes

Leaving the London stock market won’t cure Shell’s share price woes

The LSE has already lost companies such as CRH, Flutter and Ferguson to the US market in recent times

Sun Apr 21 2024 - 07:00
Tesla’s timing on Musk $56bn pay package is comically bad

Tesla’s timing on Musk $56bn pay package is comically bad

The electric carmaker is the biggest loser in the S&P 500 this year, with shares plummeting 37 per cent

Sat Apr 20 2024 - 06:00
Nvidia shares dip as competition heats up

Nvidia shares dip as competition heats up

Even the strongest stocks don’t rise all the time

Tue Apr 16 2024 - 05:00
Bear markets can hurt your mental health

Bear markets can hurt your mental health

Downturns are linked to increased usage of antidepressants and psychotherapy sessions

Mon Apr 15 2024 - 06:10
‘Massively underpaid’ AstraZeneca boss bags £18.7m pay deal

‘Massively underpaid’ AstraZeneca boss bags £18.7m pay deal

Advisory firms called on shareholders to reject a pay package ‘unprecedented’ among FTSE companies

Sun Apr 14 2024 - 07:00
Trump Media shares collapse, but remain wildly overvalued

Trump Media shares collapse, but remain wildly overvalued

Truth Social is still being valued at $4.5bn or more than 1,000 times sales

Sat Apr 13 2024 - 07:00
Albert Edwards’ stock bubble warning is overdone

Albert Edwards’ stock bubble warning is overdone

Investors are being discriminating – not the kind of thing one sees in bubbly environments

Tue Apr 09 2024 - 05:30
Tesla car sales plunge is an ‘unmitigated disaster’

Tesla car sales plunge is an ‘unmitigated disaster’

Shares hit new lows for the year, although a rebound on Thursday offered some respite for investors

Mon Apr 08 2024 - 05:45
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is a wordy adversary on social media

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is a wordy adversary on social media

A recent New York Times profile prompted Ackman to post a 4,200-word reply on X

Sun Apr 07 2024 - 06:00
Is Elon Musk hurting Tesla more than helping?

Is Elon Musk hurting Tesla more than helping?

Shareholder Ross Gerber is right to highlight Musk’s controversial social media activity

Sat Apr 06 2024 - 06:00
Apple shares are falling, and this time it’s different

Apple shares are falling, and this time it’s different

Stocks undergo corrections, but it’s unusual for Apple to fall in a bull market

Tue Apr 02 2024 - 06:00
Daniel Kahneman changed the investing world

Daniel Kahneman changed the investing world

A brilliant thinker with no training in economics, his insights revolutionised the field

Mon Apr 01 2024 - 06:00
Boeing boss bows to the inevitable

Boeing boss bows to the inevitable

As Airbus invested in R&D over the last decade, Boeing returned $59bn to shareholders in dividends and buybacks

Sun Mar 31 2024 - 06:00
Trump Media valuation is insane

Trump Media valuation is insane

Ex-president’s business looks a lot like a meme stock: wildly inflated and destined for collapse

Sat Mar 30 2024 - 06:00
US stocks: bubbly, or expensive for a reason?

US stocks: bubbly, or expensive for a reason?

High valuations are largely concentrated in a small number of ultra-profitable, mega-cap technology stocks, says Goldman Sachs

Tue Mar 26 2024 - 05:00
Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary on track for €100m bonus

Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary on track for €100m bonus

Airline’s share price is on course to hit a target set five years ago, with Bank of America saying it has capacity for further 33% advancement

Mon Mar 25 2024 - 06:00
Professional forecasters can’t forecast

Professional forecasters can’t forecast

Gulf between confidence and accuracy likely to be much bigger among ordinary investors

Sun Mar 24 2024 - 07:00
Tesla’s woes are piling up but that still isn’t priced in

Tesla’s woes are piling up but that still isn’t priced in

Despite challenges it is the most expensive of the Magnificent Seven, trading on 56 times trailing earnings

Sat Mar 23 2024 - 06:00
Grantham’s US stock market warning is alarmist

Grantham’s US stock market warning is alarmist

AI bubble a worry but stock valuations not as high as they would appear

Mon Mar 18 2024 - 05:00
Europe’s magnificent 11 stocks – the Granolas

Europe’s magnificent 11 stocks – the Granolas

Continent’s top firms drove most of European equity gains last year

Mon Mar 18 2024 - 05:00
Tech bubble fears are overblown

Tech bubble fears are overblown

Top stocks are still moving in different directions

Sun Mar 17 2024 - 05:00
Money is pouring into Bitcoin ETFs

Money is pouring into Bitcoin ETFs

Institutional respectability has boosted the crypto asset

Sat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Stock markets don’t love Donald Trump

Stock markets don’t love Donald Trump

Trump ranks below Obama, Clinton and other Democrat presidents in a large group seen as having little impact on markets

Tue Mar 12 2024 - 05:15
Hunt’s UK ISA won’t solve FTSE’s problems

Hunt’s UK ISA won’t solve FTSE’s problems

A quarter of the average British portfolio is already allocated to the UK even though it accounts for only 4% of global market capitalisation

Mon Mar 11 2024 - 05:30
Musk’s Trumpian politics are hurting Tesla

Musk’s Trumpian politics are hurting Tesla

Report said ‘controversies surrounding Elon Musk’ caused its brand value to sink 12%

Sun Mar 10 2024 - 06:00
Apple sinks on antitrust concerns

Apple sinks on antitrust concerns

Investors fret that €1.8bn EU fine might break down ‘walled garden’ Apple has long built around its products

Sat Mar 09 2024 - 06:00
Is the ‘AI bubble’ really worse than the dotcom years?

Is the ‘AI bubble’ really worse than the dotcom years?

Stocktake: As market historian Professor Paul Marsh bluntly notes, the question today ‘is whether the price is too high; it’s not whether or not it’s a bunch of junk’

Tue Mar 05 2024 - 05:00
Google investors worried by latest AI blunders

Google investors worried by latest AI blunders

Stocktake: Issues with AI chatbot Gemini indicate Google is ‘trailing and mis-executing in a fast-moving and high-stakes space’

Mon Mar 04 2024 - 06:00
Warning that Apple share price could fall 30% this year

Warning that Apple share price could fall 30% this year

Stocktake: Some 80 per cent of revenue pertains to hardware, but Apple ‘trades on a software multiple’

Sun Mar 03 2024 - 06:00
Tax rules mean Irish investors don’t care if Buffett’s best days are over

Tax rules mean Irish investors don’t care if Buffett’s best days are over

Tax levied on ETFs makes Berkshire Hathaway a good investment bet even if it performs no better than an index fund

Sat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
The competition is coming for Nvidia

The competition is coming for Nvidia

Chipmaker expects to maintain 76% profit margins but enormous margins mean competition is inevitable

Tue Feb 27 2024 - 06:00
Amazon joins the irrelevant Dow

Amazon joins the irrelevant Dow

Almost all important indices are weighted by market capitalisation, but the Dow is a price-weighted index

Mon Feb 26 2024 - 06:00
Nvidia’s huge gains are not another dotcom bubble

Nvidia’s huge gains are not another dotcom bubble

Chipmaker’s shares would have to more than triple over the next year to resemble the Cisco bubble

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 06:00
Why older people are prone to financial scams

Why older people are prone to financial scams

University of Florida study says older people lose out because they are more reluctant to concede first impressions might be mistaken

Sat Feb 24 2024 - 10:00
Analysts sanguine over tech dominance of top markets

Analysts sanguine over tech dominance of top markets

Global indices are becoming less diversified, meaning we are all technology investors now

Tue Feb 20 2024 - 06:00
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