Anyone investing heavily this year??
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Great question personally im adding some Exxon shares. not financial advice
I'm still new to trying get a feel for market technical analysis....need more time to read.
but someone explain a stock like DOW.. i jumped in around $20. price targets have been getting cut all the way down to around $23
but the stock is on a steady up swing above $25. Stock is rising.... but price targets from the market analyzers say different.
but someone explain a stock like DOW.. i jumped in around $20. price targets have been getting cut all the way down to around $23
but the stock is on a steady up swing above $25. Stock is rising.... but price targets from the market analyzers say different.
Im kind of disappointed with the performance this year only 14.45%. I was too passive this year and plan on being more aggressive 2026
was just having this conversation with a buddy of mine.
Since Elon is building (so far) 3 AI data centers in Memphis . Two if which are already on line. It's been a big discussion on where all this power is going to come from. I work in this field so I'm in the same arenas with some of these people.
So, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) the company that provides power to literally all of Tennessee and surrounding states have signed deal to expand the nuclear footprint with what's called (SMR) Small Modular Reactors. This I'm assuming is how the future of nuclear power will look.
https://www.powermag.com/tva-entra1-sign-agreement-for-6-gw-six-plant-nuclear-smr-collaboration/
A quick AI search for SMRs returned this
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the U.S. are advanced, smaller-scale nuclear power plants under development by companies like NuScale, X-energy, and Holtec, supported by the DOE, aiming for factory-built, scalable, carbon-free energy with quicker deployment and lower upfront costs than traditional nuclear, with the first commercial units anticipated by the early 2030s in locations like Michigan and Texas. While none are currently operating in the U.S., NuScale's design is the first SMR to receive NRC design approval, marking significant progress towards deployment for grid, industrial, and other uses.
Yea i was looking at starting a position in SMR. Waiting for a cool off. Lately it taken back off.
it's up around 30% over the last 5 days I'm looking to jump in as well
Not saying that I don’t like the move, but does this sound like a conservative or a socialist president asking for a friend?
Trump Moves to Ban Big Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes
President Trump said he will ban large investors from buying single-family homes, the administration’s first significant move to address the country’s severe housing shortage.
“I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump said in a social-media post Wednesday.
It isn’t clear if Trump can carry out such a ban without congressional approval, and big investors would still be able to hold on to their hundreds of thousands of existing homes. Yet if the president is able to enact a ban, it would likely ripple through a number of major housing markets across the country.
Wall Street’s presence in the housing market began growing after the subprime mortgage crisis started to erupt in 2007, even though institutional investors have never owned more than a tiny slice of the overall housing market. Some estimates put the figure around 2% to 3%.
But in several cities, investors hold a significant share of homes. During the pandemic housing boom, investors accounted for more than 20% of all home sales in some hot markets, including Houston, Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Sunbelt cities have been a particular target for institutional homeownership. A 2024 analysis by the Government Accountability Office said large institutions owned 25% of rental homes in Atlanta and 18% in Charlotte.
Investors of all sizes, including mom-and-pop landlords, spent billions of dollars buying homes over the past dozen years. At the 2022 peak, they purchased more than one in every four single-family homes sold. Most of these purchases were made by small investors looking to rent out properties. Investor purchases, alongside those made by traditional buyers, slowed when mortgage rates surged.
Single-family rental companies that buy up homes say they offer their residents an opportunity to live in upscale neighborhoods with good school districts that they wouldn’t be able to afford to own.
But growing voter anger over high homeownership costs has led government officials from both parties to try to crack down on institutional investors in their local markets. Nebraska, California, New York, Minnesota and North Carolina are among the states where lawmakers have proposed laws to restrict large investor home purchases, though most haven’t gone anywhere.
Home prices are up more than 50% nationally since 2019, and the median existing-home price in November rose to $409,200. Home buying overall has dwindled over the past three years due to high home prices and the surge in mortgage rates.
Investor purchases have also made it harder for some first-time buyers to compete with Wall Street-backed investment firms, with their all-cash offers. Institutions don’t always offer more money, but they are able to close a deal quickly and rarely quibble over worn flooring or dated bathrooms.
Wall Street firms and other institutional investors have scooped up hundreds of thousands of U.S. houses to rent, leading some housing analysts to assert that these purchases are contributing to a dearth of homes for sale and driving up home prices in certain neighborhoods.
“People want a place to live, but if investors flood the market on the disposition side, there’s not going to be enough buyers and that will have a really big impact on home prices,” said Jason Lewris, a co-founder of Parcl Labs, which tracks the institutional investor market.
The U.S. faces a housing shortage of several million units, depending on how that figure is calculated. Home building slowed considerably after the 2008-09 financial crisis caused home prices to plummet. That left many builders stuck with an excess of inventory. Wall Street firms, private-equity managers and other institutional investors bought tens of thousands of single-family homes, often in bulk at foreclosure auctions.
Trump would be hard-pressed to implement a legal ban without getting congressional approval. A bipartisan Senate bill last year that aimed to increase housing supply by streamlining certain federal programs and improving access to affordable mortgages passed the Senate unanimously. But it was blocked by House Republicans.
Democrats said they support limiting institutional investors from buying up homes, but objected to how Trump was going about it, and noted that Republicans have blocked similar attempts in the past.
“Trump should start with getting his own party in the House to support a bipartisan bill to bring down housing costs that passed the Senate unanimously,” U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said in a statement Wednesday. “And Congress should work on legislation to stop corporate investors from buying up homes.”
An investor ban would also likely require exemptions for new-home construction, analysts at investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said in a note. Corporations that invest in single-family homes would have several ways to argue that a ban is a violation of their constitutional rights, according to the American Bar Association.
“The pushback won’t just be from our industry,” said Sean Dobson, chief executive of Amherst, a single-family rental firm that owns about 47,000 homes. “This is anti-free-market, anti-property-rights kind of policy.”
Share prices of large institutional homeowners plummeted. Invitation Homes was down about 6% at Wednesday’s market close, while shares of American Homes 4 Rent slid more than 4%.
Shares of home builders also fell on Wednesday. These firms sometimes sell their excess supply to large investors or build homes specifically for these firms to rent. D.R. Horton’s stock price was down more than 3% on Wednesday.
Some single-family rental firms are already anticipating a potential slow down in investment to their businesses because of the rising political pressure compounded by this announcement. A number of companies are pivoting their business models to “build-to-rent” communities of newly constructed single-family homes, rather than acquiring existing ones.
In the first year of his second term, Trump made few material announcements to directly address the nation’s housing crisis. But the president said Wednesday he planned to unveil more housing and affordability plans in coming weeks.
The administration last year announced a task force that would identify federal land for housing development but has made little progress on that since.
Write to Craig Karmin at Craig.Karmin@wsj.com, Rebecca Picciotto at Rebecca.Picciotto@wsj.com and Alyssa Lukpat at alyssa.lukpat@wsj.com
I stumbled upon his channel about a week ago and thoroughly enjoyed all of the videos. They’re incredibly informative and provide valuable insights. Although I understand they’re AI-generated, I’m planning to introduce them to my daughter to help enhance her financial literacy.
Breaking news! “U.S. Prosecutors Are Investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell”
In a video statement, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the investigation over his testimony about the central bank’s building renovation project is part of President Trump’s ongoing campaign to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates. Photo: U.S. Federal Reserve/Handout/Reuters
In a video statement, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the investigation over his testimony about the central bank’s building renovation project is part of President Trump’s ongoing campaign to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates. Photo: U.S. Federal Reserve/Handout/Reuters
NFLX earnings on 1/20, make sure you are ready for either direction. If it drops below 82.50, I'll be picking up some shares. Covered calls are paying nicely BTW.
Here is NFLX on the weekly chart. I am watching $94 to see if it can get above that resistance and hold for a week or so.
Other levels to consider:
$90.50 - 100 week moving average
$82.50 - 2 really strong bounces there
$70 - Long shot to drop that low without a major catalyst.
** Honestly, I wouldn't fault anyone who started buying (at least nibbling) now while its under $100.
I don't know if he did something wrong but I do find it remarkable the amount of support he's getting.
You learned something new every single day.
Wall Street is tokenizing assets
Wall Street is tokenizing assets
B.C. man banned from financial markets over role in US$215 million securities fraud conspiracy
A former B.C. resident currently serving prison time in the U.S. for his role in a US$215 million securities fraud conspiracy has been banned from the province’s financial markets for life.
Canada's largest seniors' advocacy group calls out banks for inaction on 'predatory' sales practices
Banks 'not interested' in putting clients’ financial security ahead of profits, says CARP CEO
ca.yahoo.com
Canada’s big banks are “not interested” in putting clients’ financial security ahead of profits by addressing “predatory” sales practices at their branches, says the head of the country’s largest advocacy group for seniors.
Anthony Quinn, chief executive of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), is calling out the banks for inaction following a regulatory review of “the sales culture and environment within five bank-affiliated mutual fund dealers” in Ontario. “It’s going to take regulators and likely legislators to make the change because we know just how much influence the banks have on our lives in Canada,” Quinn told the Financial Post.
Quinn said he is speaking out after trading letters with the industry trade group Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) about some of the findings published in a July 2025 report by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO). The OSC regulates the province’s capital markets, while CIRO is a self-regulatory body overseeing investment dealers, mutual fund dealers and trading activity on the country’s equity and debt markets.
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