Mark Newton, head of technical strategy at Fundstrat, says one semiconductor name has broken out of its month-long consolidation and looks poised for fresh rallies. The News In a new post on X, Newton says he’s keeping a close watch on Intel (INTC) after it broke out from a cup-and-handle formation, a continuation pattern, on the daily chart. He also notes that the latest price action in semiconductor names leads him to believe the sector has more room to run to the upside. But he adds that the relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator, of semiconductor stocks is hovering…
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Morgan Stanley CIO Mike Wilson believes that two market sectors are poised to move higher as savvy investors lock in gains from high-flying semiconductor names. The News In a new Bloomberg interview, Wilson says the earnings growth story is alive and well and sees signs the market is ready to move to the next set of winners, as oil reprices to the downside. “Earnings come through as expected, but that can drive the stock market higher, and you get rotations to the areas where that earnings growth is underappreciated. And we think that [Wednesday’s] action is some evidence that maybe…
Fundstrat Global Advisors head of research Tom Lee says he expects market sentiment to turn sour in the coming weeks, noting that he sees four catalysts that will drive the shift. The News In a new CNBC interview, Lee says equity investors should start bracing for a “real challenge” that’s going to come later this year. “So I think, yes, very much, there is going to be a change in market tone, but I think it’s too early for people to expect that to happen now.” With the first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of new Chair Kevin Warsh…
The US and Iran have just reached an agreement to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway through which 20% of the global oil supply passes. On Truth Social, US President Donald Trump says, “Oil will flow on both ends again for the region, and the world!” Oil prices are tumbling, with US crude oil (WTI) down over 5% on the day, trading at $80.85 per barrel. It seems that the days of higher energy prices are over, and markets are poised for fresh rallies as the final overhang disappears. We looked at multiple data sources…
Fundstrat Global Advisors head of research Tom Lee believes that the SpaceX (SPCX) initial public offering (IPO) will not mark the market top. The News In a new CNBC interview, Lee says the SpaceX IPO is a two-part offering, totaling a mind-boggling $1.775 trillion. According to Lee, investors have scar tissue from the dot-com bubble, many believing that history will repeat itself. “There’s the IPO, and it’s going to be $75 billion. The second part is the unlocking of the $1.7 trillion of shares that are held by private investors, many of whom have made generational wealth by being seed…
BlackRock chief investment officer Rick Rieder believes that equity investors should stay the course despite the market pullback over the past week and bubble concerns. The News In a new CNBC interview, Rieder says he doesn’t believe the stock market is in a bubble, as he believes earnings growth is driving equities higher. “There’s no way we’re in a bubble. I mean, the earnings are still really good. It has some characteristics of a bubble because you get this over demand, and then everybody’s got to get out at the same time.” But Rieder notes that the market has to…
Morgan Stanley chief investment officer Mike Wilson says investors should keep a close watch on three sectors that could emerge as the next market leaders following the explosion of semiconductor names. The News In a new Bloomberg interview, Wilson says many semiconductor names have been seeing rising earnings estimates from analysts but have now reached unsustainable levels of 70%. Wilson also notes that the semiconductor names could witness a leverage flush as traders crowd into high-flying names. “Semiconductor revision breadth got to 70%. This only happened three or four times in the last 25 years. The S&P 500 revision breadth…
Micron (MU) investors may be facing one of the biggest questions in the AI trade: whether surging demand for memory chips can keep justifying the stock’s explosive rally. The News In a new episode of the bank’s Thoughts on the Market podcast, Morgan Stanley head of Europe and Asia technology research Shawn Kim says the memory market is forecast to surge from $220 billion in 2025 to about $890 billion in 2026, a near-quadrupling fueled entirely by AI infrastructure. “Expectations for 2026 memory revenues rose 71% in just three months. That implies roughly $600 billion of incremental memory revenues in…
JPMorgan Asset Management global market strategist Stephanie Aliaga says equities will likely witness wild price swings as three AI giants, including SpaceX, are expected to make their public market debuts this year. The News In a new CNBC interview, Aliaga says she expects turbulence in the market as investors begin to scrounge up capital to participate in the initial public offerings of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. “I think we should be buckled up for some volatility. Obviously, there’s going to be some high-profile liquidity entering the market.” In late May, Goldman Sachs managing director John Flood said that institutional investors,…
Billionaire and Third Point founder Dan Loeb says investors are making a historic mistake on one dominant semiconductor name just because of its astronomical market cap. The News In a new interview with the All-In Podcast crew, Loeb pushes back on the popular narrative that Nvidia (NVDA) is overvalued because of its $5 trillion market cap. The billionaire says Jensen Huang’s chipmaker is actually undervalued on a forward earnings basis. “I mean, that’s a rub against Nvidia, which is a $5 trillion company. And people feel like it’s sort of a ceiling on it. I think we’ll look back at…
