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☆ I invest in real estate on the side. At first, I thought Airbnb was the way to go, but I prefer long-term rentals.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I wanted to offset my mortgage and make extra income, so I immediately knew I would do Airbnb. I met some great people, but Airbnb guests can drive you crazyEven though we could pull in around $3,000 in revenue per month, I had many frustrations with Airbnb. I turned to long-term rentals, which I like moreAt the start of 2020, I moved to San Francisco for work. I realized really quickly I didn't like the city and didn't want to live there long-term. I'd tell someone thinking about Airbnb to first make sure they've done their research and the financials make sense.

Persons: Ursula Lauriston —, Meta —, I've, Airbnb, It's, I'm Organizations: Google, Meta, Business Locations: Haiti, Richmond, Anacostia, Washington, DC, Capitol Hill, San Francisco, didn't, Richmond , Virginia

☆ Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham calls Elon Musk a 'wonderful propagandist' and warns home prices will fall 30%. Here are the best 10 quotes from a new interview.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham warned that home prices are doomed to fall amid high mortgage rates. What the stock market loves"It loves low inflation. The crucial ingredient to a stock market bubble"The surge that took place in late 2020 finally had the characteristics that have been missing for 10 years. [NFTs], meme-stocks, QuantumScape is the biggest scale of any bubble in [stock market] history." That's the biggest bubble I think in history, including the South Sea bubble."

Persons: Jeremy Grantham, Tesla's Elon Musk, Elon Musk's salesmanship, Grantham, Josh Brown, Michael Batnick, I've Organizations: Service, Elon, Ritholtz, Stock Locations: Wall, Silicon, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney, Adelaide, Canada, London, Toronto, Boston, Japan, Manhattan, Downtown Manhattan, Tokyo

☆ Historically volatile week will test the bull market in stocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

This historic weakness is well-enshrined in stock market lore and encapsulated in the old chestnut, "Sell Rosh Hashana and buy Yom Kippur." Triple witching refers to each quarter's simultaneous expiration of stock index futures and options and individual stock options. It may be true we are in a bull market, but it is certainly not a typical one. Instead of trying to pick winners, Marks sensibly proposes the opposite: You might also achieve that goal — of producing alpha, or outperformance — by holding fewer of the losers. That is why the vast majority of active stock pickers continue to underperform the market, and why money continues to flow into passive index funds.

Persons: Rosh Hashana, Jonathan Krinsky, Lowry, Howard Marks, Oaktree, Marks, FAANGs, Jesse Livermore, It's Organizations: Triple, Bulls, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Facebook, Netflix Locations: Yom, Yom Kippur

☆ Tech investor Paul Meeks says Apple is getting 'really expensive' and needs to 'get aggressive' on A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Apple will need to "get aggressive" communicating its artificial intelligence strategy to justify its valuation, tech investor Paul Meeks said. "At some point, they're going to have to join the rest of the FAANGs and be much more aggressive about articulating their AI strategy." During May's Apple earnings call CEO Tim Cook mentioned AI just twice, in part because the company generates the bulk of its sales from iPhones. "I think what they'll do is they'll talk about the efficiencies internally that AI brings," Meeks said. If they don't do it soon, they'll have an upcoming analyst meeting and I bet that will be a focus."

Persons: Paul Meeks, Meeks, CNBC's, Tim Cook, Kif Leswing Organizations: Apple, Independent Solutions Wealth Management, Microsoft, CNBC, iPhones, Web Services

☆ The S&P 500 has entered a bull market, but will it last? Here's what 5 Wall Street experts are saying about the stock market's big rally.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The S&P 500 has pushed its way into a new bull market, but experts are torn over whether the rally can last. Though he previously predicted a 15% increase for the S&P 500, he's turned more bearish on the market as recession odds increase. Goldman SachsThe hype for AI is real and could lead the S&P 500 to climb higher this year, Goldman Sachs said. That could take the S&P 500 as much as 14% higher in the coming years, strategists said. The S&P 500 could end the year at 4,500, strategists predicted, implying around a 5% upside from current levels and a gain of about 17% for the full year.

Persons: —, David Rosenberg, Rosenberg, That's, Steve Marcus, Jeremy Siegel, Siegel, he's, Bloomberg Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley, Morgan, Mike Wilson, Wilson, Cindy Ord, Tom Lee, Fundstrat, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Service, New York Fed, Rosenberg Research, Wharton School, Bloomberg, Corporations, Getty, CNBC

☆ Investor says tech has yet to bottom — and reveals the mega-cap stocks to avoid
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tech stocks have been on the up this year; the Nasdaq Composite is the best-performing Wall Street index, up around 11% since the start of 2023. But tech investor Mark Hawtin believes the sector's resurgence is nothing more than just another bear market rally. "At the end of the day, Google and Facebook are advertising businesses, they use technology to run their platforms, but they are dependent on advertising," Hawtin said. About 88% of analysts covering Alphabet rate it a "buy," and give it average upside of 36.3%. Meta is also well-liked by analysts, with 67% of its analysts giving it a buy rating, and potential upside of 19.3%.

☆ Did the economy end 2022 with a bang or a whimper?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But the United States economy still seems to be chugging along just fine after experiencing a hiccup in the first half of 2022. Despite worries about weaker consumer spending during the holidays, economists are forecasting solid growth for the fourth quarter. Yearning for earningsMore blue chip companies will report fourth quarter results (and perhaps give guidance about the first quarter of 2023 and beyond) this week. But according to FactSet senior earnings analyst John Butters, earnings for the tech sector are expected to fall nearly 10% in the fourth quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Verizon (VZ), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Travelers (TRV), 3M (MMM), Boeing (BA), Dow (DOW), Visa (V), Chevron (CVX) and American Express (AXP).

☆ Leon Cooperman expects US stocks to keep struggling in 2023: 'Anybody looking for a new bull market is looking the wrong way'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman expects the US stock market's troubles to persist in 2023. "Anybody looking for a new bull market any time soon is looking the wrong way," he said Friday. There's just a 5% chance the S&P 500 pares back losses logged since March 2022, he told CNBC. "Anybody looking for a new bull market any time soon is looking the wrong way," he added. The chairman of the Omega Family Office shared his outlook for the S&P 500, which closed just over 1% lower at 3,808 points on Thursday.

☆ Buying Peloton and similar growth stocks is 'absolute nonsense,' says strategist
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

High-growth tech stocks are unlikely to rebound after a "pivot" on interest rates from the Federal Reserve, according to one market strategist. This high-interest-rate environment has devalued equities and sent many tech stocks, including the Nasdaq Composite , firmly into a bear market this year. In such an environment, Toogood said stocks such as Peloton were an "absolute nonsense" trade for investors and pointed to its more-than-70% decline this year to date. Wood has attracted criticism from a range of value investors for the fund's lackluster performance, including Toogood. The ARK Next Generation Internet ETF , another fund also run by Cathie Wood, previously held Peloton shares.

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the market Thursday: Cooler inflation, Salesforce co-CEO exit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Club holding Salesforce (CRM) saw the departure of co-CEO Bret Taylor, leaving co-founder Marc Benioff as sole CEO, again. Five Below (FIVE) blowout quarter and stock jumps more than 9% in the premarket; in keeping with the discounter retailers. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

☆ Tech stocks have been crushed. What’s next for the FAANGs?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN Business —The great bull run for tech stocks may finally be over. The tech sector has been a market leader for years, but there are growing concerns about the future. Todd Sohn, director and technical strategist at Strategas, noted in a report late last week that when tech stocks imploded in 2000 as the dot-com bubble burst, it wasn’t until after the 2008 financial crisis before tech resumed a role as a market leader. But cybersecurity stocks such as Palo Alto Networks (PANW), as well as semiconductors, are more reasonable. In other words, tech investors should be looking tor more boring parts of the sector, not assets like crypto that are more about hype than substance.

☆ Wall St closes sharply higher on hopes of abating Fed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Among the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, nine closed green, with healthcare (.SPXHC) enjoying the largest percentage gain. So far, nearly one-fifth of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported. Analysts expect S&P 500 earnings growth of 3.0%, on aggregate, down from 4.5% at the beginning of the month, per Refinitiv. Results from a slew of heavy-hitting tech and tech-adjacent companies are likely to dominate the earnings chatter this week. The S&P 500 posted 21 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 73 new highs and 331 new lows.

☆ Wall St rises as data hints at Fed policy progress
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Stephen Culp | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

All three major U.S. stock indexes were higher at the top of a week jam-packed with high profile corporate earnings and crucial economic data. Among the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, healthcare (.SPXHC) was enjoying the largest percentage gain. So far, nearly one-fifth of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported. Analysts expect S&P 500 earnings growth of 3.0%, on aggregate, down from 4.5% at the beginning of the month, per Refinitiv. The S&P 500 posted 21 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 58 new highs and 297 new lows.

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