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DAILY UPDATE: Stocks Mixed and End Flat

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Chinese online retailer Temu added a surcharge of 145% to products in order to offset tariff costs.
Bitcoin and ether ETFs pulled in over $3.2 billion last week as traders rode the crypto wave higher.
The US Treasury ended this quarter with a lot less cash than it expected, and will have to borrow a lot more than anticipated in the second quarter.
Elon Musk wants money: Neurolink is hoping to raise about $500 million, while xAI has kicked off the second-largest private funding round ever.

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Plug Power soared 25.68% on the news that the hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer has signed a deal that allows it to issue $525 million in secured debentures.
Tesla eked out a 0.33% gain as investors took profits following the EV company’s strong week in spite of terrible earnings.
IBM rose 1.61% after the tech company pledged to invest $150 billion in US manufacturing over the next five years.
Peloton climbed 4.93% thanks to an upgrade from Truist analysts, who said the home workout company has cleaned up the “BS.”
MGM Resorts International gained 1.71% after reporting an impressive 34% increase in revenue last quarter thanks to its BetMGM platform.
ADMA Biologics popped 12.12% on FDA approval of its new production process that draws 20% more usable material from donated plasma than current methods.

What’s down

Nvidia sank 2.05% on the news that China’s Huawei Technologies is preparing to test a new semiconductor that could rival Nvidia’s most powerful tech.
Coinbase fell 2.08% on a double downgrade from Compass Point analysts, who cited a decline in retail trading activity.
DraftKings dropped 1.51% after Mizuho analysts lowered their price target on the company, cutting their expectations for the gambling stock’s EBITDA.

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DAILY UPDATE: Covid-19 Update as Stock Markets Fall Again and US Treasury Hacked

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stat: 4 in 10. That’s about how many US nursing home residents got an updated Covid-19 vaccine in the winter of 2023–24, according to the CDC, despite the recommendation that adults 65 and older get the new shot. (KFF)

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Stocks fell on Monday, with the woes of the three major indexes continuing in the final week of the year as an otherwise strong 2024 comes to a close.

The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) slipped more than 1% while the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC) fell roughly 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell about 0.8%.

Stocks moved lower as the 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX) retreated from a seven-month high to hover near 4.55%. Stocks closed out last week with a Friday slide from Big Tech names like Tesla (TSLA) and Nvidia (NVDA), with the NASDAQ Composite falling 1.5% and the S&P 500 down over 1%.

The highly anticipated “Santa Claus” rally, which is statistically one of the most consistent seven-day positive stretches of the year for the S&P 500, has flopped thus far. Since 1950, the S&P 500 has risen 1.3% during the seven trading days beginning December 24th, well above the typical seven-day average of 0.3%, according to LPL Financial chief technical strategist Adam Turnquist. In the current period, the S&P 500 is down nearly 1%.

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department’s computer security guardrails this month and stole documents in what Treasury called a “major incident,” according to a letter to lawmakers that was provided to Reuters on Monday.

The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said.

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DAILY UPDATE: Amazon Clinic, Fitch Down-Grade Fallout and the Markets

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Amazon expanded its virtual healthcare service, Amazon Clinic, to all 50 states.

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MCLEAN, Virginia (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday voiced more objections to Fitch Ratings’ downgrade of the main U.S. credit rating, calling it “entirely unwarranted” because it ignored improvements in governance metrics during the Biden administration and the country’s economic strength.

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Here is where the major benchmarks ended:

The S&P 500 Index was down 63.34 points (1.4%) at 4,513.39; the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 348.16 points (1.0%) to 35,282.52; the NASDAQ Composite dropped 310.47 points (2.2%) at 13,973.45.
The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) rose about 3 basis points to 4.073%.
CBOE’ss Volatility Index (VIX) was up 2.2 at 16.13.

Consumer discretionary and energy shares were also weaker, with the latter pressured by a more-than 2% drop in crude oil futures.

The U.S. dollar index (DXY) strengthened for a fifth straight day and touched a four-week high, as investors shed riskier assets in favor of what are considered safe havens. Volatility based on the VIX hit its highest level since late May.

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DAILY UPDATE: “No July SSI Checks for You”

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Stocks popped 2% this week, as investors expect the Fed to soon pause or dial back interest rates after the release of the June inflation report. Central bankers have raised rates from zero to over 5% since March of last year, a move that led the S&P 500 to shed 20% in 2022.

And yet, No SSI for you!

DEFINITION: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a means-tested program that provides cash payments to disabled children, disabled adults, and individuals aged 65 or older who are citizens or nationals of the USA. SSI was created by the Social Security Amendments of 1972 and is incorporated in Title 16 of the Social Security Act The program is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and began operations in 1974.

Individuals or their helpers may start the application for SSI benefits by completing a short form on SSA’s website. SSA staff will schedule an appointment for the individual or helper within 1–2 weeks and complete the process.

SSI was created to replace federal-state adult assistance programs that served the same purpose, but were administered by the state agencies and received criticism for lacking consistent eligibility criteria. The restructuring of these programs was intended to standardize the eligibility requirements and level of benefits. Although administered by SSA, SSI is funded from the U.S. Treasury general funds, not the SS Trust Fund. As of July 2022, the program provides benefits to approximately five million Americans.

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The Social Security Administration gives, and the Social Security Administration takes away — at least when it comes to beneficiaries who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments.

July is one of the months when the agency doesn’t issue an SSI check. Because of a quirk in the payment schedule, SSI beneficiaries get two payments in March, June, September and December, while no payments are deposited in January, April, July and October.

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DAILY UPDATE: The WHO Calls for Radiology Readiness and Bonds Sell-Off

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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A new World Health Organization (WHO) report calling for an increased global preparedness for radiological and nuclear emergencies doesn’t spell out any particular current conflict, but it doesn’t need to. The world has become fully aware of the increased dangers of radiological and nuclear threats.

The World Health Organization’s updated list of critical medicines puts a focus on radiological and nuclear emergencies.
The WHO says governments need to have treatments available for citizens exposed to radiation.
New formulas developed in the last decade have, in part, prompted the updated guidelines from WHO.

In the just-issued report, the WHO updated its list of medicines that governments should stockpile for these types of emergencies, including medicines that “either prevent or reduce exposure to radiation or treat injuries once exposure has occurred.”

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Finally, a major sell-off in bonds sent Treasury yields higher, making stocks less attractive to investors. Last week, the major US stock indexes posted their biggest weekly losses of the year.

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RISK: Default U.S.A.

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The U.S. risks defaulting on its debts as early as July unless the borrowing limit is raised, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report just released.

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The federal government on January 19th reached its approximately $31.4 trillion debt ceiling — which legally caps how much the U.S. can borrow to pay for what tax and other revenue doesn’t cover — and the Treasury Department has since been using “extraordinary measures” along with its current cash flow to keep the government’s obligations paid.

“CBO estimates that under its baseline budget projections, the Treasury would exhaust those measures and run out of cash sometime between July and September of this year,” according to the report.

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UPDATE: Inflation, S-S Benefits, Job Recruiters, the Markets and U.S. Treasury Yields

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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U.S. inflation climbed to new 41-year high of 9.1% in June, as gasoline prices surged. Soaring gasoline prices in June drove the rate of U.S. inflation to 9.1%, a nearly 41-year peak. The CPI jumped 1.3% last month to mark the third time in the last four months it’s topped 1%. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a 1.1% advance.

Because of June’s higher-than-expected inflation jump, it’s likely seniors will receive a 10.5% adjustment to their Social Security checks in early 2023, the Senior Citizens League, an advocacy group for older Americans opined.

Nearly a third of job recruiters said they experience extreme stress on a weekly basis because of their work, according to a December survey by human-resources analytics firm Veris Insights. The research found that 77% of high-ranking recruiters are open to changing jobs, along with 65% of HR professionals — a figure that rose 17 percentage points from September to November last year.

And, the S&P 500 slipped 0.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 210 points, or roughly 0.7%, though both indexes pared losses from sharper declines earlier in the day. The NASDAQ Composite closed down 0.2% but was an outlier for much of the session, trading in the green as technology stocks rebounded.

Finally, US Treasury yields were also in focus with the most dramatic moves happening at the front end of the yield curve. The 10-year stood at 3.04% following the CPI print, with 2-year yields rising as high as 3.17%, further inverting the yield curve. The curve “inverts” when yields on shorter-dated Treasuries rise above those of longer-dated ones and have typically preceded recessions on Wall Street.

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