Articles for category: Market News

Russ Cohen

BDCs: Not All Yield Is Created Equal

Gated funds, collateral fraud, and auto-sector defaults are giving investors in private credit funds and their stock-market equivalents, business development corporations (BDCs), a headache. We have discussed the recent woes of private credit funds (, ), yet we haven’t addressed BDCs. The similarities and differences between private credit funds and BDCs are important. For instance, ...

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Here’s How to Pivot From EV Headwinds to Robotics Tailwinds

We’re putting Tesla’s upcoming earnings in focus as competition rises. Hello, Reader. “Beware the Ides of March” is a well-known warning from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – in which a seer delivers the infamous warning to the Roman emperor before his assassination. It is often used to symbolize a day of doom or inevitable misfortune. I’m ...

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Spotify’s Ad Slump Raises a Bigger Question Than You Think

shot down nearly 13% after delivering cautious guidance in its Q1 2026 earnings report. A key area of weakness was in ad revenue, which declined for the second consecutive quarter. Spotify continues to become more efficient at generating revenue by adding premium subscribers. That said, ad revenue still makes up a considerable portion of the ...

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The Rubik’s Cube Secret to Better Trades

The market looks chaotic, but certain patterns repeat — and this system is built to find them. Editor’s Note: Most investors assume markets are chaotic… unpredictable… impossible to “solve.” But what if that’s not quite true? What if, beneath all the noise, there are repeatable patterns — specific combinations of factors that tend to lead ...

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D.R. Horton: Attractive Entry Point After Market Overreaction

is the largest homebuilder in the United States. Founded in 1978, the company went public in the 1990s and has held the top position in the industry since 2002. Its success is built on a simple but powerful strategy: delivering affordable, well-designed single-family homes to first-time and move-up buyers across a wide range of price ...

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How to Read a Stock’s ‘Behavioral Profile’

Editor’s Note: Most investors think the market is random — or at least unpredictable. But look closer, and you’ll notice that no stock is aimless. Each follows a hidden rhythm: a deeper behavioral “tell” that can be decoded the same way a seasoned coach studies an opponent or a profiler studies human behavior. My colleague ...

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UPS Stock Reversal Is Backed by Institutions—And a 6% Yield

It has taken time for to recover from its loss of the Amazon contract, but the recovery is at hand. The Q1 earnings results revealed not only strengths but also an accelerated outlook for inflection, despite the tepid guidance. The tepid guidance is the operational factor in Q2, as it led the market to sell ...

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Every Stock Has a Tell – Here’s How to Read Them

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Editor’s Note: In today’s market, patterns form and disappear so quickly that traditional analysis is starting to fall behind. Increasingly, the edge is going to investors who can spot stock behaviors early — or better yet, use systems that can spot them for you. ...

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Is Oracle Undervalued as Cloud Growth Accelerates?

Oracle’s market is disconnected from reality, but starting to catch on. The stock was punished like an emergent tech start-up with no revenue or hope for profits because of its debt, but this isn’t a cash-burning research story. Oracle is a legacy tech company, capable of growth and profits, that successfully shifted to the cloud ...