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The S&P 500, The Nasdaq 100 May Be Topping Out: Here Are The Reasons

1 day ago | forbes.com | John Navin

S&P 500, Nasdaq 100gettyThe new high for the Nasdaq 100 and the closeness of a new high for the S&P 500 have bulls excited. It’s too bad that key breadth measures are failing to confirm the price move. The NYSE advance/decline index is a problem for the markets advance from the early April lows. So is the “bullish percent index" for the two stock indexes. If you study the message sent from the price charts, it’s unnecessary to connect it to the latest news stories. War in the Middle East.
These 5 Below Book Value REITs Are Paying Dividends

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Navin

Below book value REITsgettyThese five real estate investment trusts trade below their book value and they all pay dividends. They represent the diversity found among REITs: one has a multifamily-oriented approach. One favors mortgage assets. Another is involved in real estate projects for the regulated cannabis industry. The market caps vary widely as well. The smallest has market capitalization of just over $128 million. The largest has a market cap of $5.94 billion.
Tariffs Take Kraft Heinz, Campbells And Others To The New Lows List

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Navin

Tariffs, Campbells, Kraft HeinzgettyKraft Heinz and Campbells are the big brand-names hitting new lows – along with others in the sector – as tariffs affect an industry that uses steel to make cans. Many packaged foods come in cans and the tariffs make the can prices go up and customers find other products to consume. Other factors may be at work but the unexpected quality of the tariffs may have caught packaged food executives by surprise.
Stock Market Rally Takes A Break: Breadth Indicators Show Weakness

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Navin

Stock marketgettyThe stock market rally from the spring lows is taking a break. The S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100 and the Russell 2000 have rallied significantly off of their early April lows but there’s a problem. The lack of breadth makes it hard to get too excited even as the indexes approach old highs: the NYSE index of advancing issues versus declining issues isn’t keeping up.
Inversionistas buscan refugiarse: 5 acciones que lideran el rally de metales preciosos

2 weeks ago | forbesargentina.com | Amura CMS |John Navin

Las empresas de metales preciosos que extraen oro y plata tuvieron una buena semana. Cinco de ellas —cuatro que cotizan en la Bolsa de Nueva York y una en el Nasdaq— marcaron nuevos máximos a mediados de la semana, aunque el viernes retrocedieron un poco. Un ETF de acciones de oro, muy seguido por los inversores, también tocó un nuevo techo. Hay dos razones detrás de este movimiento: la inflación y el miedo. Los aranceles impuestos por Donald Trump son, en la práctica, inflacionarios.
These 5 Precious Metals Stock This Week Surged To Even Higher Highs

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | John Navin

precious metalsgettyPrecious metals miners specializing in the extraction of gold and silver from the earth had a good week. These five – four of the NYSE and one on the Nasdaq – blasted to new price highs mid-week before pulling back a bit on Friday. A widely followed gold stocks ETF also showed a new high. Two factors are at work: inflation and fear. That Donald Trump tariffs are basically inflationary have money managers looking for hedges and the classic for that is precious metals.
These 5 Tech Big Caps Are Unable To Reach New All-Time Highs: So Far

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | John Navin

Big cap tech stocks dropped this year from highs and they’re having trouble getting all the way back up. Since these five make up so much of the S&P 500 weighting, it keeps the index from new highs. The likely reason: the “strategic uncertainty” of on again/off again tariffs policy which amounts to simple uncertainty for investors. The feeling among economists is that tariffs and inflation go together.
Berkshire Hathaway’s Biggest Stocks: How The Price Charts Look Now

1 month ago | forbes.com | John Navin

Berkshire Hathaway is known for buying value stocks. That’s the idea behind the Warren Buffett-founded firm with the famous long-term track record of success. The near-term is not a concern as long as the underlying valuation is determined to be worth an investment. Just for the record, though, it’s probably good to know how the stocks are doing from the standpoint of strict price chart analysis.
The Gold And Silver ETF’s Take A Break As Costco Limits Gold Bar Sales

1 month ago | forbes.com | John Navin

The gold stock ETFs and the silver stock ETFs have dropped from this year’s highs but they’re still up from this time last year. That Costco is now limiting customers to one purchase of a gold bar rather than two is some real background: the expectation remains that tariff-related inflation will lead to higher precious metals prices. Although President Trump is now telling Walmart to “eat the tariffs,” investors concerned with his on again/off again approach may find uncertainty uncomfortable.
As Bond Yields Rise, Interest Rate Sensitive Stocks Feel The Heat

1 month ago | forbes.com | John Navin

The ten-year U. S. government note this week made it above 4.50% and, as economist Mohammed El-Arian notes, took the yield higher than its been for three months. This has helped to move the dollar index higher, although not all that much. The effect on interest rate sensitive stocks has been negative. (The 30-year U. S.