General Electric could not have chosen a better moment to launch its energy businesses as an independent company, CEO Scott Strazik said one month before GE Vernova debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. “Now that’s a big statement,” Strazik acknowledged at GE Vernova’s first investors’ day in March 2024. …
Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he’s chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week’s rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying …
And then there was just one: Apple . That’s how I felt about last week where the market took a huge number of stocks out and shot them, including some of ours — more on that when we get to Thursday’s Monthly Meeting for Club subscribers — but the sellers …
A week removed from a brutal payroll report that triggered worry over a tapped consumer and a trapped Federal Reserve, the broad stock indexes are back at the cusp of all-time highs, market volatility has returned to year-to-date lows and some investors are calling off the August hurricane watch. The …
Conventional wisdom holds that as we get closer and closer to the coming deadline for tariff resolution, the market will become more treacherous, especially for highly valued stocks. I don’t know who writes these stories. I always check the bylines and I have never worked with them or hired them. I …
When the tyranny of the “Magnificent Seven” ended, I always figured the money would go to the rest of tech. I also didn’t think that there would be anything left of the Mag 7 to invest in. They would all be obliterated as part of a source-of-funds move. Club name …
I can’t be the only parent of college-age kids who routinely texts them, “Have fun. Not too much.” This roughly captures the recent market moment. Investors have loosened up and are deservedly enjoying the resounding six-week market comeback — which takes them ever closer to the hard-to-discern line between harmless …
People love to talk about the straw that broke the camel’s back. I think an anvil broke the bull market’s back last week. A straw would never have done it because, until last week, I didn’t see a lot on the back of a bull that would cause a straw …
Wall Street finished last week with big back-to-back declines, moving the S & P 500 away from Wednesday’s record-high close. Chip giant Nvidia had a rough week ahead of this week’s earnings. The S & P 500 flipped negative for all of last week, down 1.7%, after Friday trading extended the …
A new movie due out next month called “Novocaine” is about a guy unable to feel pain. This is a kind of superpower, right up to the point where it becomes a keen danger, leaving him insensitive to damaging injury. The stock market, similarly, was for weeks calm and unflinching …