The Perfect Storm For A Market Collapse
What makes for a market collapse? Let’s define this as a reset, like the one in 2008, when the S&P 500 fell by 38.5%, the most precipitous drop since 1937. In 2026, there is…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
BYD Shows It Is King Of The EV Market
The world economy is generally divided into three regions. One is China. One is the US. The third is the EU. This means developing nations like India are left out of the equation. However,…
How Tesla Beat The Market
For much of last year, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) shares traded wel l below the S&P 500. Some of the early drop was due to Elon Musk’s relationship with the new…
Apple’s Stock Recovery Is No Recovery At All
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) stock has partially recovered from a sell-off that hit other large tech companies harder, because they are “dumping” hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers. Apple,…
Tesla’s Self-Driving Future Hit By Waymo’s New York Disaster
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is about to completely kill a proposal to expand the use of autonomous for-hire vehicles outside New York City. The block adds to the industry’s hurdles to expand…
Gas Prices Could Go Back To $5
Almost exactly four years ago, Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. Fairly quickly, the US sanctioned Russia’s oil exports. Russia produced 12% of the world’s oil then. By March, Brent crude futures hit $138.…
YouTube Threat Drives Netflix to 52-week Low
“YouTube Is Winning the Streaming Wars,” reads a recent headline from Barron’s. The general consensus is that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX | NFLX Price Prediction) is near a 52-week low due to its attempt to…
Social Security Wait Time Jumps To An Hour
The Social Security Administration says phone wait times for callers with questions or who needed help were 15.9 minutes last year. SSA management says that it is down from 27.9 minutes the year before.…
IBM’s Market Cap Collapse
IBM (NYSE: IBM | IBM Price Prediction) ranked No. 1 by market capitalization in the US in 1985, according to a study by Axios. By 1995 and 2005, under legendary CEO Jack Welch (who…
Buffett Dumps More Apple
In his last quarter as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B | BRK-B Price Prediction), Warren Buffett remixed his portfolio, as he always does. He cut his position in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and increased…
Why Did Buffett Dump Amazon?
In his final quarter as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B | BRK-B Price Prediction), Warren Buffett reallocated his technology holdings. In the process, he sold 75% of his Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) position, according…
Walmart Isn’t America’s Biggest Company Anymore
Depending on the source, Walmart (NYSE: WMT | WMT Price Prediction) has ranked as the largest company in the US based on the Fortune 500 for either 13 or 14 consecutive years. It has…
Is AWS Worth More Than All Of Amazon?
Of Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN | MSFT Price Prediction) $717 billion in revenue last year, $128 billion came from AWS. Amazon’s e-commerce business grew at about 8%. The AWS revenue growth was 20%. A more…
Ford’s Stock Won’t Stop Going Up
A funny thing happened on the way to America’s EV disaster. Ford (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction), which took a $19.5 billion write-off for its EV mistakes, has a stock that will not…
Retailers That Went Bankrupt During Age Of Amazon
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) was founded in 1994. It went public in 1997. Like most online businesses, it was boosted by the dawn of broadband. Broadband penetration reached 40%-50% in 2005/2006.…
China Stole OpenAI Secrets, Experts Say
It reads this way. From Reuters, which quoted a letter to the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition, “We have observed accounts associated with DeepSeek employees developing methods to circumvent OpenAI’s access restrictions…
Rivian Stock Disaster Continues
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect sales figures for Chevy, Ford, and Hyundai. Investors cheered Rivian’s (NASDAQ: RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) new quarterly results and its sales forecasts for this…
America’s Most Expensive Car Brand
Cox Automotive released a substantial amount of data detailing light-vehicle sales in the US. The most recent data is for January. It takes the numbers from Kelley Blue Book. Among the things it shows…
The Collapse Of America’s AI Bubble Is In China
There is no chance we are in an AI bubble, according to the heads of companies like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG). If the US is completely at the center of the…
A Big Correction Would Cost Dow 10,000 Points
Last year, the S&P 500 declined 19% from its February highs to its late April lows. A wild rally took it higher for the balance of 2025, and it closed up 17% for the…