Paid The Economic Week Ahead: March 4 - 8 Mar 2, 2024 2 min read paid The week ahead is jampacked with employment indicators. We expect that January's JOLTS report (Wed) and February's employment report (Fri) will confirm that the labor market remains strong. That's based on weekly initial unemployment claims remaining just north of 200,000 in recent weeks and February's consumer confidence survey showing that 41.3% of respondents agreed that jobs are plentiful (chart). Bad Ed Yardeni
Paid Nvidia For Fun & Profit Feb 21, 2024 2 min read paid As a result of the AI gold rush, billions of dollars are being spent on Nvidia’s GPUs. They seem to be the only game in town. Huge investments in AI-related hardware and software are likely, eventually, to boost productivity significantly. That’s great for our Roaring 2020s scenario. We simply don’t know at this time how long “eventually” will turn out to be. The lack of numerous suppliers Ed Yardeni
Paid NVIDIA Leads The Way Jan 8, 2024 2 min read paid Nvidia led the stock market higher today after the world's most valuable chipmaker announced new desktop graphics processors taking advantage of artificial intelligence. The company's stock climbed 6.4% to end at $522.53, its highest close ever (chart). Nvidia's rally boosted the PHLX Semiconductor index by 3.3%. Semiconductors and related technology companies are benefitting from the enthusiasm about AI. Is it hype? Ed Yardeni
Paid AI Driving Market Meltup Jul 18, 2023 2 min read paid Today's economic indicators were weak, but the stock market rose to yet another new bull market high boosted by better-than-expected earnings from some of the big banks. Also leading the market higher was Microsoft, which rose 4.4% to a new record high. The company introduced Copilot to its suite of Office software. The $30-per-month subscription service adds AI which can design presentations, offer writing prompts, summarize meetings, Ed Yardeni