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There are a handful of stocks which have the vast majority of the world’s attention. You need only spend a moment at /WSB to see all the teens bragging about their jaw-dropping gains, and I feel that an entire generation of compulsive gamblers is being created at this very moment. After all, how are you going to convince a kid to go through four years of college and hope for a $60,000/year job when you have this kind of post showing up every hour:
Years ago, I noticed that Palo Alto start-up Palantir had taken over my old office back in the days of Prophet.net. These data-scraping upstarts grew and grew, taking over every available morsel of Palo Alto office space, until they finally decided to ditch town and leave California. Just last month, they came public in a much-anticipated offering, and it did absolutely nothing.
I went through the Slope Lists and decided to thumb through the Chinese stocks (which are available for trading on U.S. exchanges). Below are the charts that looked interesting on the long side – – some of them established winners, and others newer opportunities. The ticker is beneath each chart.
Preface from Tim: David Pinsen wrote the item below. From what I can tell, there is nothing particularly partisan about it, although it obviously has dozens of political references. For the love of my personal savior, sweet baby Jesus, don’t get into another ridiculous political slam-fest. David has some things to say about symbols, so lay off the politics. Thank yew, thank yew.
PredictIt odds on the Presidential election, as of Tuesday night.
(more…)Tesla stock has finally been tapped for S&P 500 inclusion, and investors have been buying it up as a result. The shares got another boost today in the form of a major upgrade from analysts at Morgan Stanley, who have shifted to Overweight after keeping them below that for over three years.
Many investors bought Tesla stock because inclusion in the S&P 500 means numerous funds that track the index will be forced to buy it when it’s added. Tesla stock officially gets inclusion in the S&P 500 next month. Many thought it would be added in September at the last rebalancing, but the committee passed it over at the time.
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