2020 is shaping up as a year to forget for Intel shareholders. The stock is down over 20% year-to-date. First, the coronavirus selloff caused a 35% plunge down to less than $44 a share. And just when it seemed INTC was recovering, the company announced it will delay its 7nm products until late 2022 or…
Expedia Stock can Surge as Travel Returns
The coronavirus pandemic hit no other sector harder than travel. Lockdowns took a heavy toll on airlines, hotels and even rental car services as people postponed vacations and business trips were cancelled. Even asset-light companies like Booking and Expedia saw their stock prices plunging. Expedia, which was down 25% from its all-time high even before…
Plus500 Confirms Uptrend, but Correction is Likely
Based in Haifa, Israel, Plus500 (LSE:PLUS) operates a leading CFD trading platform. The company is part of the FTSE 250 index and conducts most of its business in Europe and Australia. The new ESMA regulations which came in effect in August 2018 severely impacted the CFD trading industry. As a result, Plus500 stock fell from…
Moody’s, a Buffett Darling, Trading in Late Fifth Wave
Moody’s Corp. has been a long-time holding in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. It is also the seventh biggest position in it as of the end of March 2020. The company has a strong competitive advantage, it is highly profitable and growing. No wonder Warren Buffett likes it so much. The stock did decline sharply in…
Dollar General Stock Bulls are Looking for Trouble
As a general merchandise discount retailer, Dollar General was among the handful of businesses that actually benefited from the pandemic. People piled on necessities preparing for what looked like the end of the world for a while. As a result, sales at Dollar General surged in the midst of the crisis. While its stock price…
Veeva Systems Stock Trades in Bubble Territory
It is true that the Fed’s recently re-adopted zero rate policy and stimulus are distorting financial markets. Interest rates are like gravity to financial assets. The lower the rate, the higher asset prices go and vice versa. As a result, stocks in general tend to ignore the economic reality right now. Among the companies trading…
PNC Financial Completes Bullish Elliott Wave Cycle
Economic crises have always been especially tough on financial companies. Usually, when the general market is falling, financial stocks are crashing even harder. PNC Financial for example, lost 81.6% in the 2008-9 recession, while the S&P 500 fell by “just” 58%. PNC Financial stock suffered more than the general market during the recent coronavirus selloff,…
DAX 30 Surged 50%+ in Three Months. Here is Why
THIS WEEK ONLY, in addition to the seven premium instruments, all our subscribers will receive ONE Elliott Wave analysis of DAX 30 as a BONUS. Subscribe NOW and get yours on Sunday, June 14th. The last time we wrote about the German DAX 30, the index was in a free fall. It was March 2nd…
Elliott Wave Setup Sends S&P 500 12% Higher
As demonstrated in our previous article about the S&P 500, the stock market started climbing while the economy looked the weakest. Then, as the markets kept rising, a new conundrum occurred. How to explain the extremely wide disconnect between the stock market and the economy? GDP forecasts for Q2 are all over the map, ranging…
Avoiding the 54% Crash in Brookfield Partners
When we last wrote about Brookfield Partners, the stock was hovering around $44 a share. That was on July 27th, 2019. Back then we though the price can reach $50, but instead of celebrating, the bulls should be getting ready to leave. The reason for our skepticism wasn’t some special insight into the company’s operations…
Alphabet Stock To $1700 and… Below?
Similarly to the market at large, Alphabet stock felt the tremors caused by the coronavirus panic. The Google parent’s share price fell from $1531 to $1009 between February 19th and March 23rd. One of the biggest and strongest companies in the world lost 34% of its value in a little over a month. However, thanks…
Sidestepping the 55% Crash in Steel Dynamics Stock
It’s been a little over four months since we wrote about Steel Dynamics. On January 16th, the stock was hovering around $33 a share. The price was down 37% from its May 2018 peak at $52.10. Yet, despite the reduced price, we thought investors would be better off avoiding the name. Our bearish opinion was…
Omnicom Bears Face Strong Fibonacci Support
Yesterday, we talked about Interpublic and how Elliott Wave analysis warned us about its stock’s collapse two years in advance. Today, we are going to focus on Omnicom, which looked vulnerable to us in March 2018, as well. Omnicom rose from $20.09 to $89.66 between March 2009 and December 2016. The stock took full advantage…
Two Years Ahead of Interpublic ‘s 55% Collapse
Interpublic and Omnicom used to be the giants of the advertising world. In the old economy, their competitive advantages seemed indestructible. Then, the Internet revolution came along and Facebook and Google created a lot of problems. However, their stocks were still making new highs until two years ago. Interpublic stock, for instance, was hovering around…
Nestle Set to Complete a Pattern it Started in 2003
Nestle S.A. is one of the largest companies in the world and the biggest food and drink producer by revenue. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and went public in 2001. The stock’s all-time low was reached in March 2003, when it fell to CHF 23.32 a share. Seventeen years later now, Nestle stock is…
