Articles for category: Market News

Russ Cohen

3 Space Stocks Got Crushed by SpaceX – Now They’re a Buy

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SPCX) IPO was supposed to be a win for the entire space sector. It didn’t work out that way. To Elon Musk’s credit, the IPO brought the space industry into the spotlight. Initially, the hype drove space stocks higher as ...

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The Technical Backdrop: When Flows Meet a Hawkish Fed

Here’s the setup most investors are underrating right now. Over the next two weeks, the tape will trade on plumbing rather than fundamentals. We just cleared the largest options expiration in history. Quarter-end pension selling comes next, and then July 1 reopens the passive-money firehose into a market that already routes forty cents of every ...

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Why Penguin Solutions Is Rallying as AI Data Centers Scale

is no newcomer to tech, data centers or AI, but it is only now, with the AI boom years in the making, that its stock price is rallying. The reason is simple: now that GPU supply and supply chains are firming up, connectivity and networking solutions are being delivered, and data centers are under construction, ...

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Microsoft’s Boring Stock Story May Be Its Biggest Strength

is down approximately 20% in the last 12 months. Most of the news around the company has been negative. There have been layoffs, significant ongoing capital expenditures to support its artificial intelligence ambitions, cost pressures in its gaming division, and the ongoing transformation of Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI. That’s created significant noise around the company ...

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This Fund Crushed It in 2025: It’s a Trap in 2026

ASA Gold and Precious Metals (NYSE:) is a standout among closed-end funds (CEFs), but not for the reasons we’d like! For one, this gold-focused CEF pays almost no dividend itself (its yield is a meager 0.14% as I write this). That’s unusual for a CEF, as investors mainly buy these funds for their high yields. As ...

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S&P 500 Earnings: Micron Technology Reports This Week

Most of the fixed-income returns that are tracked on a weekly basis by this blog, ended higher on the week, despite all the chatter around Kevin Warsh and the latest Fed meeting. There just seems to be an undue amount of bearishness (i.e. higher bond yields and lower prices) discounted in Treasuries, and high-grade corporates, ...