Bullish and Bloated? Why Stocks Are Flying and What Might Bring Them Back Down
It’s official — the S&P 500 and Dow have wiped out their 2025 losses in dramatic fashion. Just a few weeks ago, markets were bogged down by trade tensions and bearish expectations. Today? They're buoyed by...
After a long drought, the past couple of months have ushered in a new round of IPOs, including chip design firm Arm Holdings (ARM), Instacart (CART) and most recently, the iconic sandal Birkenstock (BIRK).
Each of these stocks came to market in search of high valuations, but soon came back...
Big Pharma companies have built empires out of human pain without managing to come close to addressing the number one cause of disability in the world: Depression, a disease that costs the economy a trillion dollars in lost production every year.
But while Big Pharma is turning over billions in...
Millennials have been labeled many things: lazy, entitled, narcissistic among other unflattering terms. They have also been accused of being highly risk-averse, preferring flashy investments like crypto over slow-n-steady deliverables such as stocks and bonds.
More recently, though, millennials have busted this stereotype.
Last year, they became the largest living adult...
Strong Earnings Are No Longer Enough
The investment community just watched one of the market’s most compelling narratives hit a significant speed bump. Nvidia, the undisputed kingmaker of the artificial intelligence boom, delivered an earnings report that was, by all accounts, extraordinarily good.
Yet, the market’s reaction was anything but celebratory,...
Bitcoin has been surging lately. The cryptocurrency has rallied nearly 70% from $26,000 in October to recent highs of $44,000.
The popular cryptocurrency still has a way to go to get back to its historic price level of nearly $69,000, set in November 2021.
It appears that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
A failed ocean in what is now the Amazon rainforest could soon help solve Brazil’s biggest agriculture problem
But to grow that food, Brazil depends on other nations for its most essential fertilizer — a mineral called potash.
In fact, Brazil imports about 98% of this critical nutrient from tens of...
As the curtain closes on the stock market’s acclaimed ‘good’ season, we stand at the crossroads of profit and prudence. With portfolios plumped up like Thanksgiving turkeys, thanks to a 22% feast since November, the temptation to pocket those gains and saunter into summer is palpable.
But before you decide...
In a world where nearly 1 in 10 people go to bed hungry every night, food security is arguably the single biggest problem facing humanity.
And it’s a problem that’s only going to get worse.
In fact, by 2050, the world’s population could increase from today’s 8.1 billion to as many...
This week’s The Market Pulse dives right into a brewing market storm. Remember those rosy "soft landing" scenarios? Citigroup just threw a bucket of cold water on that optimism, predicting a hard economic landing instead. They even foresee a dramatic Fed reversal with multiple rate cuts this year –...
