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How can SOFI get much worse at this point LOL…
It will be all quarter point moves. Going from zero to 1% is meaningless for stocks. Economy is strong, inflation to tick down soon.
Well looking at those returns it looks like things did get F'd up lol.
I'll stick with the other billionaire (Buffett) who recently said something along the lines of it's hard to find attractive values for investments and low rates have made things pricey across asset classes. It's the same reason I said I didn't participate much in this thread until recently when things started coming down.....lots of names I have no interest in and lots of inflated valuations. Prefer to hear to good honest assessments vs a snake oil salesman.
TGT earnings coming up too. I've mentioned the double top a couple times and on Friday I did think it came near a potential at least short term bottom area where it bounced off. I'm probably going to be too chicken to get into it but wonder if it might not have a quick relief rally if earnings are good. Overall market sentiment tomorrow will matter too though. LOW earnings were very good but the reaction evaporated rather quickly as well.
Yes you say what experts where saying
Andrei Illarionov - a Russia expert who was a Putin advisor years ago said that Russia has about 145k soldiers and Ukraine has around a 250k.
He said Russia would need 1-1.5 million to take and keep Ukraine
I never expected a major war over Ukraine
Biden said a small incursion wouldn't be a big deal
I think Putin was relying on the Chechens to sweep into Kiev and kill/depose leaders
But they got crushed by Turkish made drones.
The count of casualties now is given as over 500 killed, 56 tanks wrecked and Chechen general was killed
Russia and China made a new alliance just before Olympics so I think they have a game plan that Ukraine was a part of some calculation.
Now Putin is "hoist with his own petard" as they say
He has "tactical nukes" which are meant to be sort of battlefield shock and awe weapons meant to freeze foes who might gain an upper hand (thats been the explanation anyway)
Putin isn't necessarily talking about "Tsar Bomba" when he talks about nukes
In any case everything is a mess
Putin was not considered a great KGB operative
He was a like a D3 position coach of KGB
He's clever like a street hustler but no genius.
Now the boys and girls of the EU want to wage financial war against Russia and citizens, while still buying oil from the boss.
Putin starts a gas leak and the globalist greenies run in lighting matches
Here we go....
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I own NOC in addition to LMT and HII. Doing well there.
Also own MAXR, sattelite company that is providing much of the imagery we are seeing from Ukraine. That's ripping the past week, though I'm just barely in the green overall
Also own Tell, and that has been up 10%+ 3 times in the last week.
Is TELL making any money yet?
Looks like Russia is getting kicked out of everything:
Up and down day, ending modestly mixed.
Russian oligarchs running scared:
Russian oligarchs running scared:
I read some Ukrainian crew member of one of those rich Russians tried to the owners yacht. Think it was in Spain.
I have been surprised and pleased to see how much damage a unified developed world can do to Russia without direct military action.
As expected, there is TSLA and the wannabes:
ZOOM nice earnings and revenue beat for Q4, but miss on guidance for Q1:
ZOOM nice earnings and revenue beat for Q4, but miss on guidance for Q1:
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Seeing that 40-mile long Russian column advancing westward, I can't help but think of how NATO is missing an opportunity to take it out via air strikes and eliminate what's going to be a major escalation and perhaps the turning point for Putin. Hit...that...column....
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You know, he wants the west to hit that column to crash the market (and prove his bear predictions right).
Having early stage production issues of EVs!? Who would have guessed it. Following right in Tesla’s foot steps in that regard lol.
This is a stock/investment thread, yes, but try for a perspective that not everything is about "the market," per se. Your portfolio should be managed/optimized for all scenarios. This is about a tyrant-dictator with ambitions beyond UKR, although the immediate offense is his invasion of a sovereign nation with a democratically elected president. NATO will have to step in soon. As for this escalating into WWIII? Unless Putin is stopped here, he'll move on the Baltics next. That's more likely to cause a much wider war. Stop him here and now, and that greater threat is extinguished.You know, he wants the west to hit that column to crash the market (and prove his bear predictions right).
I think most of the world has been inspired by the courage displayed by Zelenskyy. He has galvanized world support for Ukraine. True leadership.
Without being rude, may I say.....are you crazy? The Baltics are NATO nations. The US, Germany, UK, et al would attack and Russia would cease to exist within days (at least the Putin regime). Come on, please return to the world of reality.
This isn't the USSR of the 60s. The Russian military today is a patch on the fanny of the US and NATO. And FYI, their entire economy is collapsing right before our eyes.
LOL! Admit it. As a little boy, you were scared to sleep with the light off.
Well, that you seem to have personalized this is telling. Stay in your safe place, and "Buy! Buy! Buy!" Good luck.
Very telling indeed. Hard to speak with someone so scared that they can't process what is happening right in front of our faces and for the whole world to see.
You always say that after you lose, but can't stay away. Until next we meet, which will likely be tomorrow!
Re: the re-opening trade, What’s shocking is how the COVID hysteria/narrative seems to have disappeared overnight. If true, I need buy more ABNB and get back into MAR. Is COVID basically sidelined until next Winter?
That seems like the endgame, which hopefully is what is happening today. No more new variants! As long as mutations stay within the omicron family, we should be okay.
Only if the Afghan people put up the same fight as the Ukrainians.
The omicron wave had already mostly abated, states were already lifting the last of the mandates. Covid was still in the news but we are way past the hysteria stage of the virus.
But yeah, Ukraine has completely taken over the news and rightfully so. Even the new Supreme Court nominee, which itself is a good story, but sorry but that story is going to have to wait.
Not to mention Russia has struggled mightily in Ukraine. If they can somehow "win" in Ukraine they will be in no position to move on to other countries. They can barely keep supply lines going now. This campaign has exposed Russia as nowhere near the military power that they once were.
The idea that Poland or some other Nato country is next is laughable at this point.
No and not expecting to for through at least 2024.
But rev's expected to double yoy 2021 to 2022, up about 50% into 2023, and then grow about 9x in 2024.
Think that deal they signed was a $9ish bil deal, so plenty of rev's to go after that.
Hits the nail on the head!
Back to the markets, so many buy back programs, hard to keep track of: