Market Insights

The meltdown in popular growth/tech stocks continues. As you probably know, the ARK Innovation ETF — the barometer of the “growth” movement — got slashed in half in recent months. But the pain doesn’t end there. One of the best examples of the tech craze must be Peloton, the firm

  R.I.P. OIL? The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. To riff off of this popular quote, reports about the (imminent) “death” of oil in the mainstream press have been greatly exaggerated, too. For a few years now, we were among the few contrarian voices saying the coming bull

  IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG It was just last week when we commented on the social unrest over in Kazakhstan and said that Russia wouldn’t be the only major player to jump into the fray: China just spent nearly $28 billion securing those commodities (mostly oil and gas but also uranium)

  CRAZY OR…? As you probably know, things have been a little shaky over in the “growth” world recently. So much so that ARK’s Cathie Wood — the poster child of the “growth” wave — suggested these stocks were now deep value (yes, really!). But fear not! According to Wood, they

This week we’re swapping the stock charts on our screens for endless reruns of Home Alone, Grinch, and Die Hard with our families. That’s why we’re dusting off an old Christmas post Chris wrote back in 2010 (gosh, has it really been 11 years?!). It’s a deep dive into Santa’s

The below list (h/t to @silverguru22) caught our attention this week. It shows the performance — or rather underperformance — of the stocks CNBC host Jim Cramer urged the unsuspecting rubes investors to buy earlier this year. Most of these stocks were high-flying “growth” names completely disconnected from fundamentals. Not that that

Our friend Tim Staermose shared this chart in the Hedgie Watercooler Telegram group (click here to get free access to the group). After mimicking the Nasdaq during the dot-com boom, Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) — the poster child of the current growth wave — seems to be also following