📈 Daily Stock Market News & Sentiment - August 17, 2026

📰 Ticker News Updates
AAPL (3 articles)
Here Are Monday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Apple, Dave, Etsy, Federal Signal, Mobileye Global, Netskope, Okta, Shopify, Workday, and More
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-17T11:54:21Z | Read Article
Wall Street kicked off the week with a flurry of bold calls on some of the market's most closely watched names, and at least one stock just scored a target price hike of more than 50 percent from a major firm.
Update: Apple Changes App Tracking Rules Following German Competition Authority Review
Publisher: MT Newswires | Published: 2026-08-17T11:28:18Z | Read Article
(Updates to include additional details in the third paragraph) Apple (AAPL) will modify its App T
Berkshire Hathaway adds $17 billion to Alphabet stake in Q2 2026
Publisher: Quartz | Published: 2026-08-17T11:11:09Z | Read Article
Google's parent company is now the third-largest holding in Berkshire's equity portfolio, worth around $36.6 billion
VOO (3 articles)
What History Reveals About Buying the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF in Volatile Markets
Publisher: Motley Fool | Published: 2026-08-17T12:05:00Z | Read Article
Market corrections are normal for the S&P 500 and should be expected. How you handle them can improve your returns over time.
Investing $500 a Month Into These 3 ETFs Could Retire You a Millionaire
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-16T16:37:20Z | Read Article
Three decades of compounding can turn a modest monthly habit into a seven-figure retirement, but the funds you choose and how you split the money between them changes everything about where you land.
Maxing Out a Roth IRA Into These 3 ETFs Could Make You a Tax-Free Millionaire
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-16T16:31:25Z | Read Article
A Roth IRA shields every dividend and capital gain from federal tax forever, but only if you put the right funds inside it. Three low-cost ETFs cover the ground most investors overlook, and the combination matters more than most people realize.
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SPYI (3 articles)
We Did the Math on What $100,000 Earns in the 5 Most Popular Income ETFs and the Gap Is Enormous
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-16T14:20:50Z | Read Article
Five popular income ETFs all promise fat monthly checks, but the same $100,000 stake produces wildly different results depending on which one you pick, and the reasons behind that gap reveal something most investors never consider before buying.
JEPQ vs. SPYI: Nearly Identical Yields, and One ETF Charges You Twice the Fee
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-15T22:45:07Z | Read Article
Two ETFs with nearly identical monthly payouts are built on completely different engines, and choosing the wrong one based on yield alone could cost you far more than the fee difference suggests.
The 3% ETF Outperforming 11% Competitors: How SCHD Keeps Beating Covered-Call ETFs
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-15T20:15:55Z | Read Article
Most income investors see an 11% yield and a 3% yield and know exactly which one to buy. The logic seems airtight until you look at what each fund actually surrenders to generate those payouts.
QTUM (3 articles)
2 Quantum Stocks With 75%+ Upside in August After Q2 Earnings
Publisher: Zacks | Published: 2026-08-13T19:00:00Z | Read Article
QCi and Quantinuum offer 75%+ upside as commercial adoption, revenue growth and new partnerships shape quantum stocks in August.
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Quantinuum, IonQ, NVIDIA, IBM, QTUM, ARQQ, WQTM and CHPX
Publisher: Zacks | Published: 2026-08-12T14:18:00Z | Read Article
Quantum ETFs are gaining momentum as AI strains classical computing, with federal funding and breakthroughs fueling the sector's growth.
The Next AI Surge: Top Quantum ETFs to Buy Amid Washington's Funding Push
Publisher: Zacks | Published: 2026-08-11T14:31:00Z | Read Article
Quantum ETFs are gaining momentum as U.S. funding and breakthroughs accelerate the sector, offering investors diversified exposure to its growth.
TQQQ (3 articles)
Eyeing Short-Term Opportunities? ETFs Worth a Look
Publisher: Zacks | Published: 2026-08-10T14:57:00Z | Read Article
Uncertainty is creating opportunities for tactical investors. Explore ETFs positioned to capitalize on short-term moves across tech, energy and volatility.
The 20 Most Actively Traded ETFs
Publisher: etf.com | Published: 2026-08-07T19:46:09Z | Read Article
<p>VOO is the only trillion-dollar ETF, but it barely cracks the top 10 by daily volume.</p>
This $39.77 Billion Leveraged ETF Jumped 10.09% Tuesday, But Volatility Decay Cost Holders Millions
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-08-05T09:10:11Z | Read Article
TQQQ surged double digits in a single session and handed some traders a 21% week, yet the same mechanics that built those gains have quietly drained billions from long-term holders. Understanding which side of that trade you are on changes everything.
UPRO (3 articles)
UPRO: The One Rule You Need to Know Before Buying This 3X S&P 500 ETF
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-07-27T18:32:20Z | Read Article
UPRO has turned a $10,000 investment into something extraordinary since 2009, but a single mechanical quirk buried in its design can quietly erase years of gains for investors who ignore it.
Leveraged ETFs in 2026: How They Work, the Best Funds, and the Risks You Can't Ignore
Publisher: etf.com | Published: 2026-07-15T21:42:58Z | Read Article
<p>U.S. leveraged ETF assets just soared past $192 billion. Daily trading volumes across all leveraged products have surged to approximately $39 billion — more than the entire leveraged ETF industry managed in total assets just five years ago. The AI infrastructure boom has turned a once-niche product into one of the most hotly traded categories in the ETF universe.</p>
Analyst Reveals How $200 Billion in Leveraged ETFs Could Amplify the Next Market Selloff
Publisher: 24/7 Wall St. | Published: 2026-07-10T17:35:55Z | Read Article
Leveraged ETF assets have grown at a pace one analyst calls meteoric, and the mechanical way these funds rebalance every single day may be quietly rewiring how markets behave when volatility returns.
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🤖 Reddit Sentiment
r/stocks (3 posts)
The yen carry trade will eventually unwind and the market will crash (270 pts)
Comments: 134 | Author: u/grantresolve | View on Reddit
Historically, interest rates in Japan have been next to nothing. Japanese and global institutions have taken advantage of this. They borrowed the yen cheaply, converted to dollars and bought US treasuries, US stocks, and various US investments. They make their returns in the US and get big profits. They can then easily convert their dollars back to yen to cover their loans with minimal interest as for quite some time Japan has had near zero interest rates and the Japanese yen typically declines ...

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[171 pts] I have been hearing this for the past two years and I agree with your opinion but the cost of time is too high. Imagine if I shorted two years ago based on such an article. I believe such analysis is pointless without having any "timeline" or a discussion of the counter balancing forces. It's like talking about how the nasdaq will collapse due to raising debt but hey that has not happened because nobody mentions the there is a counter balancing force of currency debasement which increases the stock market value naturally. At the end any analysis that only talks about one side of things is biased in nature.
[205 pts] What's up with bot comments of smoking ? Do they get activated on market crash keywords?
[147 pts] Someone just watched Patrick Boyle’s latest video …. Don’t worry , I won’t tell anyone 😉
Robotis Q2 Operating Profit Soars 723% on Explosive Demand for Humanoid Actuators (53 pts)
Comments: 37 | Author: u/rdh2dmd | View on Reddit
Robotis posted second-quarter revenue of 15.37 billion won (approximately $10.9 million), up 95.1% year-over-year, and operating profit of 1.98 billion won (approximately $1.4 million), a 722.9% surge, driven by expanding demand for humanoid robot actuators. Actuators accounted for 98% of total revenue, with China market sales share rising roughly threefold from the first quarter. The company plans to officially launch its humanoid-specific actuator "Dynamixel-Q" and the full-body humanoid "AI S...

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[44 pts] So, let me get this straight. A company that sells parts and components, primarily actuators, to Chinese humanoid robot makers is now throwing a ton of money into a factory in Uzbekistan to produce the same humanoid robots that they supply in China, and supplying to Chinese companies is their core business. I'm sure their future Chinese competitors, who Robotis currently supplies as its core business model, are THRILLED about having their supplier compete with them. This totally won't affect Robotis' profits and business relationships.......... /s This story is too vague. Does anyone else use Biggo Finance, or trust it as a reliable source? The figures in the story are dubious. We have no clear understanding of their debt. One of their new products that they're sinking tons of money into isn't on market yet. There's no information provided about how much this new venture costs. And, not to mention, OP has 30K post karma on Reddit, no public posts or comments, and has only been a user for a month. This totally isn't fishy at all. No sir. /s
[5 pts] Fuck im too high i thought that said Roblox
[5 pts] What's obsession with humanoid robots about? Why exactly are we trying to give robots a social presence? Doesn't it devalue humans?
How did you stop falling for stock hype, and what research do you trust? (33 pts)
Comments: 58 | Author: u/zema222 | View on Reddit
Did anyone else get into stocks during the meme stock era and then realize later that their research process was mostly momentum, Reddit threads and confirmation bias? I have been trying to build a more repeatable way to look at stocks, but I keep running into the same issue. I can read earnings, scan charts, check sentiment, and still end up believing the thing I already wanted to believe. For people who got better at this, what changed? Did you start using checklists, screeners, AI investing t...

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[1 pts] Welcome to r/stocks! For beginner advice, brokerage info, book recommendations, even advanced topics and more, please read our [Wiki here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/wiki/index) If you're wondering **why a stock moved** a certain way, check out [Finviz](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=spy) which aggregates the most news for almost every stock, but also see [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/), and even [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/). Please direct all simple questions towards the stickied Daily Discussion and Quarterly Rate My Portfolio threads (sort by Hot, they're at the top). Also include *some* [due diligence](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/duediligence.asp) to this post or it may be removed if it's low effort. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/stocks) if you have any questions or concerns.*
[21 pts] Listen to their earnings calls. Listen to the questions that invest banks are asking...
[8 pts] I just started looking at cashflows and EPS growth, and realized money is made when the stock is cheap dude to short term negative sentiment. Hype just means it’s too late and the opportunity has passed
r/investing (3 posts)
Anyone else shocked by the amount of people that have the means but dont invest or have retirement? (974 pts)
Comments: 675 | Author: u/Old-Challenge2809 | View on Reddit
41M At my job I have a 401k and will hopefully have a pension by the time I retire. I was always having 5% taken out since Ive been here and in the last two years upped it to 7% and now 9% pre tax and now 2% Roth. I maxed out my Roth IRA this year for the first time and am sitting at $140,000 in my retirement accounts combined. I didnt it investing or retirement seriously for YEARS but now am doing what I can so I dont starve to death when I retire. Is anyone else shocked by the number of...

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[836 pts] Far too many people are relying on social security.
[218 pts] It’s all relative. Some might look at your situation and say “that’s a good start but you need to start maxing your contributions.”
[303 pts] This is an issue. Also, a lot of GenZ are now investing a lot to FIRE. I do think there will be a lot of disappointment on both sides how difficult it is to FIRE and or retire as life happens. I talked to a guy yesterday who have been investing in HYSA because of all the mistrust in the market. He recently realize you need to take risk if you are ever going to make it.
I need advice on an investment account (18 pts)
Comments: 3 | Author: u/Calm-Pen-7968 | View on Reddit
So I 20M, have started a sales job and I’m making more money than I ever have, now the bar is set pretty low since I haven’t worked too many jobs. But full disclosure, I’m currently on track to hit somewhere between 80-90k a year if my sales stay on this pace. My expenses is pretty low as I live at home for now, the only thing I pay for is my car and insurance then my family’s phone bill. My situation is I’m currently investing 8% of my checks into a 401K but I need to do something for my brot...

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[8 pts] Look into an ABLE account or establishing a special needs trust. In both cases, your brother’s disability needs to be documented and these accounts are designed to supplement his expenses in addition to what he can obtain through government programs. Unfortunately you have to be broke (or pretend to be broke or at least have minimal assets in his name) to get the best services for those with special needs.
Sell BND? Or hold on for some reason? (9 pts)
Comments: 41 | Author: u/Electronic_Bee3134 | View on Reddit
I have about 10% of my total portfolio in BND. I'm 35 and the more I think about it, the less need I see for bonds at all. (I should add that I'm not including in my portfolio count an emergency fund which sits somewhat in SGOV and somewhat in HYSA.) I want to sell BND. However, I see that it's only a loss for me. That gets me nervous that maybe I'm subconsciously looking to offload BND since it's only been a loser for me. In general, I don't bother checking what's up or down for me because I...

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[9 pts] At your age 90% stocks is reasonable. So is 100% stocks. Basically anywhere 80-100% is fine IMO.
[5 pts] Well you bought when interest rates were low which was the worst possible time to buy. Now you are selling when interest rates are high which is when you are supposed to be buying.
[4 pts] I sold all my bond funds when interest rates started going up. I have ladders now with individual bonds, mostly CDs and TIPS.
r/dividends (3 posts)
[Account Update] (250 pts)
Comments: 30 | Author: u/Melodic-Indication62 | View on Reddit
&#x200B; Since my last post about a year ago, a lot of you recommended to invest in growth stocks, so i started doing that. While my dividend income didnt grow much, my overall portfolio and networth did increase. This is my current taxable brokerage account portfolio.

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[1 pts] Welcome to r/dividends! If you are new to the world of dividend investing and are seeking advice, brokerage information, recommendations, and more, please check out the Wiki [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dividends/wiki/faq). Remember, this is a subreddit for genuine, high-quality discussion. Please keep all contributions civil, and report uncivil behavior for moderator review. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/dividends) if you have any questions or concerns.*
[26 pts] Looks solid congrats!
[9 pts] Do you file a tax return in different states because of EPD?
Anybody Using Dividends as a An Additional Source of Income? (180 pts)
Comments: 216 | Author: u/momentovivus | View on Reddit
Many of us don’t have $1.5m + to be able to generate a full time income to replace a job yet, but curious if anybody is getting a lesser but somewhat significant amount in dividends equivalent to a part time job and using that to supplement with job income?

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[1 pts] Welcome to r/dividends! If you are new to the world of dividend investing and are seeking advice, brokerage information, recommendations, and more, please check out the Wiki [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dividends/wiki/faq). Remember, this is a subreddit for genuine, high-quality discussion. Please keep all contributions civil, and report uncivil behavior for moderator review. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/dividends) if you have any questions or concerns.*
[123 pts] Im at about $500/mo now, trying to get it it at least $1000/mo to supplement my retirement, ive got less than $100k in dividend stocks, of course thats not my entire portfolio. I could sell some other stocks to buy more dividend payers, just haven’t done that as of yet. Im 58 gonna retire next yr with about $6k/mo - pre tax- hopefully supplemented with dividend income and in a few yrs a little $1500/ mo pay raise when I can draw SS at 62
[67 pts] I'm at about $1,700/month from dividends/interest. I am still reinvesting it for now as I'm only 36.
retirement portfolio. Thoughts? (46 pts)
Comments: 13 | Author: u/Different_Pin_4459 | View on Reddit
Long time lurker first time poster. This is my retirement portfolio. What are your thoughts? Would you make any changes to this? I started two months ago and plan on keeping this until 5 million.

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[3 pts] If you want a quick second pass on concentration and overlap, this portfolio health check is a decent fit here: https://trackmyshares.com/tools/portfolio-health-check?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=manual_free_tool_round_20260817_0300 With retirement money, the bigger risk is often thinking you own lots of different things when several positions are really making the same bet.
[5 pts] Too many individual holding and heavy tech weight. Simplify with VTI/VXUS 80/20.
r/wallstreetbets (3 posts)
Italy's cheese loan system is under strain (1294 pts)
Comments: 138 | Author: u/mafugga77 | View on Reddit
Puts on $ITALY By credit default swaps on Parmigiano-Reggiano

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[546 pts] https://preview.redd.it/63l4jt0vrujh1.jpeg?width=446&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a3844f8f49cea3b9e9807cbff9c76c9cb8ea803
[207 pts] So what will they do? Force sell cheese?
[147 pts] They just gotta sell blockchain cheesewheel futures on Robinhood, they'll get plenty of new capital
wheres the crash? (1217 pts)
Comments: 156 | Author: u/Dismal-Access7599 | View on Reddit
someone tag this regard

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[88 pts] https://preview.redd.it/dxdqzcia3rjh1.png?width=1365&format=png&auto=webp&s=a19852c48623b5214530bf28a1f04a955992d0d7
[143 pts] https://preview.redd.it/5g363um0wqjh1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc72c27b928c4f33eaf4a3c996edd1cec502ebb4
[786 pts] Ah yes, the famous one month and a half investment horizon
MU loss (693 pts)
Comments: 176 | Author: u/Middle_Garbage_5547 | View on Reddit
Admin removed my initial post so trying again with more info. Moving up the corporate ladder at Wendy’s. After losing 270k on NVDA calls a year ago seems I outdone myself. At the highest this was worth 1.5 million but I held

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[336 pts] im sorry did u say 1.5 million and held
[396 pts] https://preview.redd.it/ija5k6d3sujh1.jpeg?width=1728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e75f1671498ee86c9ab5dc3ecd4c1be519e80ba
[81 pts] 1.5 mil and you didn’t sell? Are you worth tens of millions and this is your play account? 
📺 YouTube Stock Channels
Yahoo Finance (1 video)
Yahoo Finance Live: Daily Market Coverage - August 17, 2026 3PM - 5PM (ET)
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CNBC Television (1 video)
To keep growing, Best Buy wants to go smaller
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Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy
is opening a series of small and medium
format stores this summer, starting with
[music] two this week. One in Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, and the other in
Jonesboro, Arkansas. The company is
reevaluating its store presence [music]
after years of slumping sales and
declining stock performance post-COVID.
The company's first fiscal 2027 quarter
outperformed Wall Street expectations,
but it followed years of declines. Like
in its fiscal 2026 third quarter, when
net income dropped more than a hundred
thirty million dollars, for example. The
retailer has also been impacted by
tariffs and the soaring price of memory
chips, which is raising costs for some
electronics. This new chapter will be
one of the first tests for incoming CEO
Jason Bonfig. He's been with the company
for nearly three decades and will
replace current leader Corie Barry in
October. Barry took the helm in 2019 and
she led the retailer through the
pandemic,
>> [music]
>> high inflation, and the onslaught of
President Trump's high global tariffs in
his first and second terms. But now, the
company wants to get back to meaningful
sales growth and capitalize on the AI
boom. New leadership is part of that. In
an exclusive [music] interview, I spoke
with Bonfig earlier this week about his
plans for the company's growth.
>> Corie and I are partnering in using this
transition as an opportunity to
accelerate even faster and drive the
strategy that's built on top of the
strategy that we've had for the last
number of years.
Bloomberg Technology (1 video)
Everybody’s Business: The Rise of AI Music 🎶 #shorts
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Some of the platforms now are trying to
be a bit more transparent.
Deezer has really been on top of this.
They're a French streaming platform.
They label AI-generated songs.
Spotify recently is taking a different
tack where instead of outright labeling
AI songs, they want to label AI
personas.
So the idea is if you have like an AI
band.
Exactly.
So the idea is like, maybe you hear a
song and you're like, I really like
this.
Like, who's this by?
You go into their artist profile and
you will see, oh, it's an AI persona,
and you could feel whichever way you
want about that.
Maybe you do want to keep going deeper
or you're like, oh, this is an AI song.
I did like it, but now I know it's
created by an AI persona.
I was like looking around for some data
on like how big this has gotten.
There's a site called Slop Tracker,
but there's one called Breaking Rust.
This is an AI band.
Apparently they're making like they've
made about $300,000.
Their monthly income is about 8,000.
So it's not like as much as a real
artist would make.
But now that's pretty good though.
Or there's Cain Walker who's made like
77,000.
So it does seem like the numbers are
they're substantial.
It's more than most wannabe musicians
would make.
But it's not like Katy Perry money.
No, it's not super star money at this
point.
But I think part of where
gasoline can be poured on the fire is
with the algorithms.
And promoting these songs like Breaking
Rust was a story for a little while,
because I believe they were promoted in
a playlist, which is how a lot of people
just well and and then once it became
people, I've heard that name because I
know it's AI generated.
Once that becomes a thing, people are
like, hey, I gotta hear that.
I read song and like all of a sudden
like that can create its own
momentum.
On Borrowed Time, their number one hit
has been played 23 million times.
There you go.
Yeah.
So this became kind of a story with
Breaking Rust specifically.
But now again, this kind of speaks to
that tension where a lot of people got
very upset.
They were like, why is Spotify promoting
an AI generated artist and song to me,
I'm here to, I guess, enjoy.
There are a lot of people who would love
to have their song played 23 million
times,
who have been toiling away for years,
right?
Like, you have the listeners who are
upset.
Yeah.
And the artists.
Yeah.
So with this new AI persona thing, they
say they're no longer going to promote
songs that are created by in playlist by
AI personas.
Joseph Carlson (1 video)
Bill Ackman Just Bought 6 New Stocks
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Welcome back everyone. We just had
breaking news that Bill Ackman is once
again a Netflix shareholder. That's
right. After his brief stint of owning
it for about 3 months in 2022, he
finally decided to buy back in. So what
changed? Why is Bill Ackman now buying
Netflix when he used to own the company
and he at one point called it too
unpredictable? It seems like he's
changed his mind on Netflix as well as a
number of other companies. In fact, he
didn't just buy Netflix as a new
position, he bought six new holdings.
That's a lot of buying. Bill Ackman has
been on a buying spree. But the
interesting part about this is I already
own three of these six new companies.
Three of them were Netflix, MasterCard,
and S&P Global. These are all big
positions in my portfolio. So obviously
I have a lot of thoughts about his
analysis on these companies. And with
his analysis on them, he released an
entire in-depth update. This is the
Pershing Square Q2 report. It's very
in-depth. He goes through his entire
strategy, what he's trying to
accomplish. He goes through every
holding and the performance of it. He
also goes through the valuation and the
implied growth rates, how much he thinks
all of these companies will grow in
their earnings per share over the next 5
years. So I compared all of his
estimates against the market consensus
to see which companies he believes will
grow the most today compared to what
investors think. So this is going to be
a very full episode. We have a lot to
get into. Let's go ahead and get
started. Now the first thing I want to
address is many of the holdings that I
have now are in overlap with Bill
Ackman's portfolio. But I just want to
point out that in my defense, the
majority of them I have bought before
Bill Ackman. I've already been in a lot
of these companies. I bought Meta before
it was revealed that Bill Ackman bought
Meta. I had Google before he bought
Google. I had Microsoft before he had
Microsoft in his portfolio. I had Amazon
before he bought Amazon. I had Netflix
twice before he bought Netflix. And the
same goes for now MasterCard and S&P
Global. Now there are some companies
that I followed Bill Ackman into. One of
them was Chipotle, which was a
successful investment. And the other one
is Uber, which is a new position that I
really like. But the reason I point this
out is because between the two of us
there is a big overlap in holdings, but
I'm not just copying his trades. The
majority of these companies I've
actually owned prior to Bill Ackman
buying into them. Now, out of the new
companies that he just bought, the one
that I first want to outline is Netflix.
I find this particularly interesting
because
Bill Ackman had previously owned
Netflix, and I've owned the company long
ago. I owned it before Bill Ackman both
times. So, he's owned it twice now. This
is his second time. I've owned it just
once the entire time through. My
position is a $102,000 position, $30,000
in the green. If we look through
Netflix's stock price history, I'll give
a short outline of Bill Ackman's
dealings with this company a couple
years ago. In early 2022 or late 2021,
he bought the company after it suffered
a major fall. So, right there, Netflix
dropped like 25% in a single day because
things were slowing down. We had a major
slowdown in subscribers, and management
would they warned about it. They said
it's a problem. We have a slowdown in
subscribers. With Bill Ackman having
looked at the company and studied it, he
thought that this might be just a minor
dip, and he can buy the company today,
and it will sail back up in the future.
Well, what he didn't know is that is
that Netflix would stay flat for the
next 3 months, and then things would get
much, much worse. Netflix management
said that not only are they not going to
grow subscribers, but they're going to
lose 2 million subscribers.
So, millions of customers being lost.
Their churn has picked up. They're no
longer a growth company, and literally
everything flipped on top of its head.
Netflix now was being viewed by Wall
Street as a has-been, a company that was
totally saturated. It couldn't grow at
all. It had no pricing power, and it had
competitors crowding it out. The news
was so insanely bad. I've never seen
anything like it. YouTubers were making
videos of of rise and fall of Netflix
with big arrows and explosions showing
it just crumbling. People are almost
rejoicing in the fact that this big
company came tumbling down. From the
peak to the bottom, Netflix dropped by
about 75% and again sentiment could have
not been worse. Everybody was mocking
anybody that owned the company.
It was a terrible time to be a Netflix
shareholder. And Bill Ackman, after two
days after that report and the stock
dropping, he decided to move on. He
called CNBC and he said that the stock
has become too unpredictable and he
wanted to move to a more predictable
company.
>> As he told me,
the reason why he exited his position
after only 3 months at a $400 million
loss was, quote, "I'm 100% ready to
admit when I'm wrong and 100% ready to
admit when I'm wrong quickly."
So, that sort of gives you an idea of
where his thinking was.
>> So, he sold out of Netflix roughly at
the bottom. Now, this isn't to criticize
Bill Ackman. We all have to make
judgment calls. He had a different
analysis on this company than I did at
the time. And I would say that my
analysis of Netflix at the time was
uniquely bullish on the company. I I
realize it was a bit of an outlier at
the time. I had studied Netflix so much.
I felt so confident in it. Maybe to some
naivety. Maybe I was being
overconfident, but I just I could not
fathom that Netflix was done growing. It
was just such a global company. They had
so much content. They They, in my
opinion, they owned the world and I
thought that the market got it wrong.
So, while this is going on, I continued
to add to my stake in Netflix. I bought
more and more of the company. I
continued to buy it and I talked about
it incessantly. In fact, I even
published and I I wrote things in-depth
about Netflix. This was December 1st,
2022. The stock price at the time of
writing that was $30. So, I wrote this
December 1st, 2022, Netflix is trading
at a price-adjusted $30 per share.
And I go through and I highlight a lot
of different things that are going on
with Netflix at the time.
Netflix reported subscriber losses for
two consecutive quarters. Netflix
subscriber loss resulted in destroying
investors confidence causing the stock
to drop by over 70%. Netflix had changed
their mind on having no ads and has
introduced a new $7 month ad tier.
Netflix has decided to monetize password
sharing accounts. Netflix admitted they
faced real competition in streaming.
Netflix made a pivot into gaming.
Netflix has done layoffs and budget
cuts. So when you're looking at the
situation here, this is illustrative of
what goes on during a time period where
a stock is in crisis, where it's just
dropped 75%.
Everything is interpreted negatively.
All of these actions that Netflix took
looked desperate on the surface. Oh,
they changed their mind and they're
adding ads. They're going into video
games. They're they're monetizing
password crackdowns. All of these looked
like desperation when in reality they
were well-calculated moves by
management. I continued on saying the
damage to Netflix's story over the past
year is real. Investors confidence has
been shaken. Even Bill Ackman purchased
into Netflix to buy the dip and quickly
sold out 3 months later when Netflix had
another disappointing quarter. He's now
stated that the stock is {quote} too
unpredictable for his concentrated
portfolio. This is where I continue to
strongly disagree with the market and
with Bill Ackman. I don't think things
are so bad for Netflix. I don't think
the company is unpredictable. In fact, I
think Netflix is one of the most
predictable companies in the market. I
go on talking about how Netflix is
making breakout shows. You had the Glass
Onion. You had
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Sven Carlin (1 video)
Young Investors Should Take More Risk?
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Are you a young investor? Should you
take more risk? Something that I see
very often in comments is that someone
in their 20s can generally afford to
take more risk than someone in their 50s
because they have more time to recover
from mistakes. Well, my take is that if
you take risks, sooner or later, those
risks will materialize and that is where
you get screwed. Just take the Nasdaq
from 2000 to 2002, 72% down. Take the
Nasdaq from 2000 to 2009. Those who took
those internet stocks risks, down 72%.
So, when the risk materializes, you can
be down 75% after 9 years. Very few
recover from such destruction. So, it is
up to you to decide, especially if you
are young, am I going to compound
patiently boring value investing,
owner's earnings, dividend by dividend,
step by step, minimizing risk, or am
going to take risk? I have started
investing when I was 19 and I always
followed the following principle from
some old guy called Warren Buffett. Now,
if you are a risk-taker, that's it. If
you're a value investor, then this video
is for you so you don't have to listen
to those risk-takers. Check my investing
channel, free value investing course, a
book is coming out. We discuss a lot of
things focused on risk so that you can
compound for the next decades in more
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Inflation Fell to 3.4%... But There's a Problem
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In today's video, I want to go over the
CPI inflation report with you. And I
just want to say that Okay, if I if I
look agitated making these videos about
government reports, it's because like
how do you expect me to feel? Because my
opinion is that these government
reports, they're just gobbledygook. It's
just sheer nonsense. Like I don't know
how you feel, but that's my opinion.
Okay, but if I say that, then why am I
even covering these reports?
It's because well, my opinion is that
it's still very important to know the
government's narrative and how to try
and trick the American people. And
basically well, using that, how can we
make money off this? So, because what's
the government trying to do? They're
trying to suppress us financially. So,
I'm not
I'm not down with that. Okay, with that
being said, me just speaking sincerely,
here we go. The government is now
reporting to the American people that
the rate of inflation has fallen to
3.4%. So, that's great news, right? Just
awesome.
Like you should be thrilled just like
me. So, here's a historical chart of the
rate of inflation. It was at 3.5% in
June. In July, it's fallen to 3.4%.
All right, now here's the bad news and I
hope you're ready because I have more
than one. So, first
the government's saying that the rate of
inflation is now fallen to 3.4% for
July, right? But, if you remember my
video for Monday, which I talked about
the jobs reports, the government said
that wages are growing at a rate of
3.2%.
So, that means the government is saying
that prices or the cost of living is
going up faster than wages because you
have 3.4% inflation and 3.2% wage
growth. So, this means that the average
American is seeing a pay cut in terms of
real purchasing power,
which means of course, a lower standard
of living.
And do you see the trend? I mean, look
at the chart. Do you see the trends with
wage growth? Like it doesn't look good
to me.
Okay, now let me share some more bad
news with you. The government's CPI
inflation report says that inflation is
occurring at a rate of 3.4% right?
However, when we take a look at the
Federal Reserve's numbers, it tells a
different story.
According to the M2 money supply, which
is basically how much money is out
there. It's expanding at a rate of 7.2%
in 2026.
So, I'd say that that is much closer to
the true rate of inflation right now,
around 7.2% based on the Federal
Reserve's stats. But, the government is
saying 3.4%.
So, if wages are growing at a rate of
3.2%
and inflation is really around 7.2%
since
I mean, the average American household
is taking a financial beating.
And I'm not done yet. More bad news. Did
you know that for Social Security
recipients, they calculate the cost of
living adjustment for next year? So,
we're talking about how much additional
money Social Security recipients are
going to get for 2027 by using the
inflation rates from the third quarter.
Just the third quarter. So, we're
talking about July, August, and
September.
July came in lower at 3.4% like oh, how
convenient.
If the government used the April and May
figures like inflation rates for those
months,
then the cost of living adjustment would
have been higher for next year. But,
nope, like those months, they completely
don't count.
And the way things are going, the cola
adjustment for next year, in my opinion,
it's going to be around 3% while the
true rate of inflation is going to be
around 7 to 8% in my opinion.
So, Social Security recipients, like I'm
telling you, they should be prepared for
a more difficult year next year in 2027.
And just so you know, 75 million
Americans receive Social Security
benefits. So, I'm just going to say
this, if the governments used the true
rate of inflation, then they had to pay
more money to 75 million Americans, then
that That be quite expensive for the
governments.
And of course the government's broke.
The government is in debt $39.9
trillion.
So listen, I understand that most people
that are watching this video, they
understand the situation and what the
government's doing.
But in reality, like you know this, most
Americans are clueless.
Like they don't understand
that the government doesn't show their
work on how they came up with
inflationary rates of 3.4%.
Sure, they can show the formula, but
they don't show the source data. And of
course if you talk to an average
American, they they have no idea what
the money supply is. They don't
understand the government's fiscal
problems. They don't understand that the
Federal Reserve is not even a part of
the US government. The Federal Reserve
is not federal. The Federal Reserve have
they have no reserves. Like it's a
misnomer. So listen, that's the bad news
and yeah, I mean it was it was pretty
bad news. But the thing is that there's
good news too and I want to share that
with you. So the good news is that the
wager that I made that the Federal
Reserve won't raise interest rates in
September, like that wager is now up
50%. Like I'm at a 50% profit. So
definitely a silver lining there, you
know, at least for me.
So now I want to tell you what's going
on with the Federal Reserve and interest
rates. The next Federal Reserve
meeting's going to be on September 16th.
A month ago, there was a 69% chance that
the Federal Reserve would raise interest
rates at that September meeting.
And then the jobs report came in bad.
The labor market lost jobs. So there's
now less incentive for the Federal
Reserve to raise interest rates because
they don't want to raise interest rates
and further damage the labor markets.
So after the bad jobs reports, the odds
of an interest rate increase fell from
69% to 48%.
And now because the CPI inflation report
came in decent at 3.4% per the
government,
there's less urgency for the Federal
Reserve to raise interest rates to fight
inflation.
So now the odds of an interest rate
increase in September have fallen from
69% to 48% to now 40.1%.
So, if inflation came in blazing hot in
the reports, then the Federal Reserve
would be more inclined to raise interest
rates to fight inflation, but that
didn't happen.
Okay, but how are they going to Like
this is my question. How are they going
to
How is the government going to write a
high inflation figure for July if that's
going to cause the government to pay
more more money to social security
recipients next year and also hurt the
stock market right before the midterm
elections? Like come on, let's be real.
Like this is politics.
Like you know how this game works. But
listen, if you made that bet with me,
which I told everyone in my investing
community on Patreon and you're up 50%,
then feel free to take money off the
table to de-risk, but I'm going to
continue to hold the wager.
And listen, I just want to go off topic
for a few seconds because a lot of stuff
is going on in the news and I really
don't care. So, I just want to hecklers
that have been giving me grief for the
past few months about my investments
that I am now beating the S&P 500
year-to-date. I'm beating the
performance. In 2025, I crushed the S&P
500's performance by about six times
over. So, I just want to stare at you
for dramatic effect and say "Haha in
your face."
And to everyone else that supported me,
thank you so much. I appreciate it. And
if you want to join my investing
community, I'm going to leave a link for
you down below. Thank you.
Now, going back to the CPI inflation
report, why did the rate of inflation
decrease from June to July?
It's because energy prices fell another
1.5% in July and gasoline fell 2.9% in
July.
And the government is saying that food
prices fell by 0.1%.
And they're saying that shelter
increased at only a rate of 1.2%, which
helped bring down the overall inflation
figure.
And I just want you to know that shelter
is a huge component of the overall
inflation figure like the headline
prints. Unfortunately, a lot of
a lot of the figures for shelter,
they're computed with surveys rather
than actual figures. So, again, very
questionable. Okay, to conclude, t
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