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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
Nvidia investors betting on big earnings beat

Nvidia investors betting on big earnings beat

Anything less than blowout earnings could cause a sell-off with one analyst warning of downside of up to 30%

Mon Feb 19 2024 - 06:00
Buyer beware of skyrocketing Arm shares

Buyer beware of skyrocketing Arm shares

Arm trades on 90 times estimated earnings with just 10% free float and a looming lock-in expiry

Sun Feb 18 2024 - 06:00
Travel giant Tui the latest stock to quit struggling UK market

Travel giant Tui the latest stock to quit struggling UK market

London’s main problem is the same as Dublin’s – the greater liquidity and higher valuations on offer in the US

Sat Feb 17 2024 - 06:00
Apple shares look pricey as growth slows

Apple shares look pricey as growth slows

Apple trades on 29 times earnings, almost 50% above its average of 20 over the last decade

Tue Feb 13 2024 - 05:30
The magnificent seven stocks are growing apart

The magnificent seven stocks are growing apart

Results and share price performance of top stocks has been very different in recent times

Mon Feb 12 2024 - 06:00
Forget Tesla: Eli Lilly can join magnificent seven club

Forget Tesla: Eli Lilly can join magnificent seven club

Drug maker trades on multiples unheard of in pharma sector over anticipated sales of weight loss drug

Sun Feb 11 2024 - 06:00
Bill Ackman can profit from his controversial tweeting

Bill Ackman can profit from his controversial tweeting

High public profile might pay off for his new fund which will feature a chunky fee

Sat Feb 10 2024 - 06:00
Morgan Stanley says the time for investors to make ‘easy money’ is gone – is it right?

Morgan Stanley says the time for investors to make ‘easy money’ is gone – is it right?

Stocktake: In reality, there’s no such thing as easy money – it only seems that way after the event

Tue Feb 06 2024 - 05:45
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin condemns Harvard’s ‘whiny snowflakes’

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin condemns Harvard’s ‘whiny snowflakes’

Stocktake: Ken Griffin donated $300m to Harvard last April but has become the latest billionaire to put the boot into Harvard University

Mon Feb 05 2024 - 06:00
Is Novo Nordisk set to become Europe’s first trillionaire company?

Is Novo Nordisk set to become Europe’s first trillionaire company?

Stocktake: Europe’s most valuable company last week exceeded a market value of $500bn after reporting better-than-expected earnings

Sun Feb 04 2024 - 07:00
Elon Musk’s record $55.8bn pay package was always absurd

Elon Musk’s record $55.8bn pay package was always absurd

Stocktake: Musk’s incentive package dating from 2018 was the largest executive compensation plan in history

Sat Feb 03 2024 - 06:00
Eli Lilly soars as Pfizer suffers post-Covid hangover

Eli Lilly soars as Pfizer suffers post-Covid hangover

Success of diabetes and weight loss drugs see share value more than triple over past three years

Tue Jan 30 2024 - 06:00
Bubble talk increases as stocks of tech giants roar higher

Bubble talk increases as stocks of tech giants roar higher

Analysts fret as top 10 S&P 500 stocks account for over 30% of index, the largest share in over 40 years

Mon Jan 29 2024 - 05:00
Bitcoin: buying the rumour, selling the news

Bitcoin: buying the rumour, selling the news

Bitcoin retreats as speculators book profits after crypto’s fierce run-up to much-anticipated ETF launch

Sun Jan 28 2024 - 06:00
Investors fume over ‘evil’ Vanguard’s refusal to offer bitcoin ETFs

Investors fume over ‘evil’ Vanguard’s refusal to offer bitcoin ETFs

Fund giant sticks to principles on type of investment it offers clients

Sat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Tesla bulls and bears call out Musk’s ‘blackmail’

Tesla bulls and bears call out Musk’s ‘blackmail’

CEO threatens to develop projects in robotics and artificial intelligence outside Tesla unless his stake is nearly doubled to 25%

Tue Jan 23 2024 - 06:00
Are fund managers too bullish about stocks?

Are fund managers too bullish about stocks?

Bank of America fund manager survey suggests stocks may be vulnerable to any disappointments

Mon Jan 22 2024 - 06:00
Bill Ackman should keep his opinions to himself and stick to investing

Bill Ackman should keep his opinions to himself and stick to investing

Ultra-competitive hedge fund founder has got himself enmeshed in the US’s culture wars

Sun Jan 21 2024 - 07:00
Geopolitical tensions darken mood at Davos

Geopolitical tensions darken mood at Davos

This will be the biggest election year in history, with eight of the world’s most populous countries holding ballots

Sat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Tesla investors shrug at latest Elon Musk controversy

Tesla investors shrug at latest Elon Musk controversy

Allegations not seen impacting company share price

Tue Jan 16 2024 - 05:00
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