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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) continued its recovery off of Tuesday morning’s lows, but the stock remains down about 14.8% since it announced the company purchased $1.5 billion of Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) on Feb. 8. Some traders are now concerned that Bitcoin prices are primarily dictating the...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) is down 2.1% in the past five days. One of the issues creating volatility in the markets is the potential inflationary impact of the unprecedented Federal Reserve stimulus measures on the value of the dollar and the possibility that the Fed will need to...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) made some big headlines earlier this month when the company announced it invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin. On Thursday, DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas said the Bitcoin price investment might not be good news for Tesla investors. Colas examined Elon...

The trading action in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) since the March lows has been surprising to many investors. But according to DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas, the stock market has nearly perfectly tracked expectations based on his 2009 playbook. Throughout 2020,...

Economist Robert Shiller By at least one popular investing metric, U.S. stocks have only been this expensive one other time in history, and it didn’t end well the first time around. According to the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio — a measure of market value based on 10...

One of the biggest questions for investors going into 2021 is whether the markets are in another tech bubble similar to the dot-com bubble back in 2000. On Tuesday, DataTrek Research co-founder Nicholas Colas said there are plenty of similarities between the tech sector in 1999 and the tech sector...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) was added to the S&P 500 on Monday and shares are down 7.8% this week, contributing to an overall decline of 0.5% for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY). Given a number of market analysts and experts have compared Tesla’s parabolic rise in the last...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping events of the year for retail stocks. This year's holiday shopping season has been a unique one, and early data suggests retail investors could see some mixed outcomes. Online sales growth for Black Friday was up 22% according to...

The economic downturn and subsequent government stimulus measures in 2020 has led some analysts and traders to use the phrase “zombie companies” to describe companies that would not be surviving without financial support from the government. On Thursday, DataTrek Research co-founder...

In the past couple of weeks, SpaceX has begun sending out invitations for users to beta test its Starlink low-earth orbit (LEO) internet service. On Thursday, DataTrek Research co-founder Jessica Rabe outlined three major takeaways from the Starlink beta test. The primary goal of the Starlink...

Millennials have flooded into the stock market in droves in 2020, with popular trading apps such as Robinhood and WeBull reporting huge spikes in younger users. But despite a new generation of investors entering the market for the first time this year, the latest data from Goldman Sachs suggests...

The trading action in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) since the March lows has been surprising to many investors. But upon closer examination, the 2020 rally has mirrored the 2009 recovery from the financial crisis to an eerie degree. Throughout the year, DataTrek Research co-founder...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) shares jumped 5% on Tuesday after the company announced a major restructuring and said it's planning to go all-in on its Disney+ streaming service. Roughly a week after activist investor Dan Loeb called on Disney to end its $3 billion annual dividend and invest that...

The U.S. Commerce Department revised its second-quarter GDP estimate slightly Wednesday, reporting that the U.S. economy shrank by 31.4% in the second quarter. The new estimate is up slightly from the previous estimate of a 31.7% decline. The GDP Numbers: The second quarter represents the largest...

This year has been an extremely volatile year on Wall Street, but the S&P 500 has made very little progress one way or the other year to date. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) is up just 0.7% overall in 2020 heading into the fourth quarter. The first-quarter market sell-off...