A Year Of Pain! Investors Struggle In A New Era Of Higher Rates And Goin’ Green, Worst Combined Stock And Bond Returns Since 1871 (Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Was UP 4% In 2022, Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation Was DOWN -67%)

by confoundedinterest17 2022 is one of the record books and not in a Tiger Woods way. Call it a year of pain. First, the US enacted policies that drove up energy prices (goin’ green) that reverberated through the entire economy in the …

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Chipmakers Struggle With Inventory Buildup On Pandemic Demand Correction

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chipmakers-struggle-inventory-buildup-pandemic-123442063.html Pandemic recovery, rising interest rates, a falling stock market, and recession fears have weakened consumer appetite for electronics. However, the industry expected chip sales to double by 2030, surpassing $1 trillion globally. Micron eyed a facility in upstate New …

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Tenants struggle with rising rent spikes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realesta…880a3a64f4 At a time when rising gasoline and food prices are already straining Americans’ budgets, many apartment tenants are grappling with soaring rents. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area in Florida saw overall median rent soar over 50% in …

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I struggle to describe how large of a bubble US stocks are…

https://twitter.com/PondSagg/status/1413571409310363648 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1413581362494283776 The chart of the week is this one: Investors taking maximum risk at maximum risk. Compliments of trusted psychopaths. Sadly, they don't trust anyone who can be trusted. pic.twitter.com/qCA3C4zoEj — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 9, 2021 the last time …

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Small-Caps Struggle To Keep Pace

by Dana Lyons While large-cap tech stocks continue to reach new highs, small-caps have struggled to keep up. For much of the post-February rally, we have seen small-cap stocks leading the way. That dynamic has kept much of the possible consternation …

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