🕯 Most Volatile Stocks / 10.09.2024

🔼Oracle shares surged more than 10% Tuesday after the company reported earnings that beat expectations, thanks to increased demand for its cloud services offerings. The Texas-based company's push into the cloud computing market is showing promising results and it has started narrowing the gap with market leaders Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure remains strong and sustained demand for cloud compute is expected, particularly in AI applications. Oracle also announced a new partnership with Amazon's AWS, further adding to its growing database opportunities.

🔽Shares of the tech giant Apple edged lower, falling about 1% on Tuesday, after it lost an EU court battle over a $14 billion tax bill. The development comes just one day after its iPhone 16 launch disappointed on the AI side, with Wall Street analysts underwhelmed by the phone's new features. The EU’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law by giving Apple an unfair advantage. In another victory for the EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the same court ruled that Google illegally leveraged its search-engine dominance to give a higher ranking to its own product listings.

🔽Shares of the chimaker Taiwan Semiconductor dropped 3% despite strong sales for the month of August. The company's revenue rose 33% last month, a positive signal when it comes to the smartphone market's recovery and demand for Nvidia's AI chips. Wall Street is betting on a bounce-back in demand for mobile devices backed by Apple’s adoption of Wi-Fi 7 on the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro. Taiwan Semiconductor stock has increased 82% in the last 12 months.

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☄️Brent Oil Falls Below $69 – To Lows Since 2021

🔽The price of Brent oil futures fell below $69 per barrel, to its lowest level since 2021. Oil resumed its downtrend on Tuesday, falling more than 3% after oil alliance OPEC cut its forecast for demand growth in 2024 and 2025.

⚠️In its monthly report, OPEC said it expects oil demand to rise by about 2.0 million barrels per day in 2024, down 80,000 barrels from its previous estimate. The oil alliance also slightly lowered its growth forecast for 2025.

💸China was one of the main drivers of the downward revision. The country faces economic difficulties amid a housing crisis. It is also increasingly turning to natural gas, which is cheaper and considered cleaner than oil, as part of its energy transition.

🔴Wall Street analysts have turned gloomier on crude oil, cutting their price targets for the commodity in part due to weak Chinese demand. Growing signs of economic difficulty in the US and Europe, where the summer driving season is coming to an end, have also weighed on prices.

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🕯 Most Volatile Stocks / 09.09.2024

🔼Palantir and Dell rally after S&P 500 inclusion announcement. Palantir and Dell rallied 14% and 5%, respectively, after an announcement Friday after the market closed that the stocks would join the S&P 500 index. The move takes effect Sept. 23. Palantir will replace American Airlines, while Dell will replace Etsy. To join the S&P 500, a company must have reported positive earnings in the most recent quarter and year, among other criteria.

🔼Shares of Summit Therapeutics rocketed as high as 75.2% Monday, before settling into a 57.5% gain. The biotech firm released the results of a Phase III study on Sunday at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer in San Diego. The data showed its lung cancer treatment Ivonescimab outperformed Pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda, the current standard of care from Merck. An early-stage biotech, a potential blockbuster drug would be a huge deal to Summit. Meanwhile, Merck's shares were down marginally in Monday's trading, with Merck being a large-cap, more diversified company.

🔼Boeing gains after reaching labor deal. Boeing stock added 4% after the aerospace stalwart reached a deal with a union that represents 33,000 of its employees on the West Coast, potentially averting a strike scheduled for this Friday. The agreement provides raises totaling 25% over the four-year life of the contract, “the largest-ever general wage increase,” Boeing said in a press release. The deal also improved contributions to 401(k) plans, lowered employee contributions for health insurance, and provided more time off.

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📉Copper Prices Fall Due To Economic Problems

📊Copper prices fell on Monday after weaker-than-expected US employment data fueled concerns about the health of the world's largest economy. Three-month copper futures on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 fell 0.5% to $8,951 a tonne, having lost 2.6% last week, their biggest weekly fall since July.

⚠️Employment data released Friday showed the labor market slowed more than expected, raising fears of a recession in the United States. This has led to a fall in the prices of risky assets, including copper, which is often seen as an economic indicator.

🔜The data confirmed market expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September, but its size and speed remain unclear. Investors are awaiting more data this week, including trade data from China, the world's largest consumer of metals.

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🙂Yellen Tried To Reassure Investors

📣Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to reassure the public that the U.S. economy remains strong despite a string of weak employment data that rattled investors and weighed on the stock market.

©Yellen said job growth had slowed from the so-called "hiring rush" as the US reopened from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the economy was "in a deep recovery."

ℹ️The Treasury secretary's comments came a day after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data for another month that was worse than expected.

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☄️Brent Price Fell Below $72 For The First Time Since June 2023

📈Oil prices fell after the release of weaker-than-expected data on the US labor market. At the same time, oil prices may continue to fall as concerns about demand outweigh OPEC+'s decision to postpone production increases.

🤝On September 5, OPEC+ countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, extended voluntary oil production cuts by 2.2 million barrels per day until December. The corresponding statement was published on the OPEC website.

📉Oil began to fall significantly in price on Tuesday, September 3, losing 4.86% per day. Quotes began to fall after signs of a resolution to the political conflict in Libya appeared. Earlier, oil production and exports from Libya's main ports were stopped due to a standoff between political factions vying for control of the Central Bank of Libya and oil revenues.

⚠️In addition, the risks of a decline in oil demand due to high rates have not exhausted themselves. Although the US Federal Reserve is ready to start cutting rates in September, it may take a long time for the rate to return to normal levels. This means that the economy is still capable of falling into recession, which leads to lower oil prices.

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🕯 Most Volatile Stocks / 05.09.2024

🚘 Tesla shares rose more than 6% on Thursday after the electric automaker stuck to its plans to launch the Full Self-Driving (FSD) advanced driver assistance software in China and Europe pending approval from regulators. This comes about a month ahead of the company's unveiling of its robotaxi product, "Cybercab", underpinned by the technology that helps drivers accelerate, brake and steer in cities and highways with human supervision.

👔 G-III Apparel Group shares surged 24% after the apparel maker posted second-quarter results that topped estimates. Management said performance in its owned brands was strong with DKNY and Karl Lagerfeld up double digits. The company also added a new licensing agreement with Converse in the quarter. CEO Morris Goldfarb said the company was raising its earnings guidance for the year

🖥 C3ai stock tumbled 8% on Thursday after the maker of AI enterprise software posted weaker-than-expected subscription revenue for its first quarter of fiscal year 2025. The stock's decline illustrates how investors are increasing scrutiny of companies whose stocks have benefited from the artificial intelligence hype. Four firms lowered their price target on the stock following the report. JPMorgan analysts noted professional services revenue of $13.5 million came in well ahead of expectations for the quarter, but subscription revenue of $73.5 million came in 7% below consensus.

🖨 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares dropped 6% after HPE reported weaker-than-expected margins, suggesting lower profitability than anticipated in its closely watched business of selling servers for artificial intelligence work. Investors have become increasingly concerned about the lower margins of most AI servers, owing to the expensive semiconductors they contain made by companies such as Nvidia Corp. In an interview, Chief Executive Officer Antonio Neri said that over time HPE will sell more higher-margin products and services along with the AI servers..

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