Q: Where are some of the most impressive gains for 2024 in the equity markets, so far, and what unique ability was required to find them?
A: One example, the S&P 500 Index is up over 6% in just 2 months. The unique ability to hunt for bargains during market declines during 2022 and 2023 was a key to enjoying gains, thus far, in 2024.
Q: What is a unique ability and how could it apply to a person’s future?
A: Every person has a talent that can lead to a potential quantum leap on their personal journey. Later in life this applies to health, wealth building, and avocation phases.
Q: What unique abilities do the McGowanGroup team members have that can contribute to investor’s prosperity?
A: Meet the Team That Cares!
Headline Round Up
*Inflation: The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index measure declines to 2.4% trailing 12 months, core 2.8%.
*Microsoft’s Latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Partnership is with Paris based Mistral.
*Shell Puts U.S. Solar Assets Under Construction Up for Sale as It Reconsiders Transition Plans?
*India Approves $9 Billion for Rooftop Solar.
*Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Demand Will Surge 50% in Next Decade Says Meg O’Neill, Woodside Energy Group CEO. Says.
*American Petroleum Institute Preparing Lawsuit Challenging Biden Administration’s LNG Permit Freeze.
*First Solar Spikes on Earnings Reports & Backlog Sales. On Track to Triple Profits?
*Solar and Battery Storage Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electricity Generating Capacity.
*”The Six Months that Short Circuited the Electric Vehicle (EV) Revolution” Says Wall Street Journal.
*Rivian Production Flattens As Stock Gets Flattened Too.
*Dallas Home Prices Up 2.15% Year over Year in 2023 and Nationally Up 6.13%.
*BP Exec Fired for Husband’s Insider Trading & Yes She Dumped Him!
*California’s Wealth Tax to Impose Annual Excise Tax of 1.5% on Residents/Part-Time Residents Whose Networth Exceeds a Billion Along With More Changes in 2026?
*Citi Wildly Bullish on Microchip Makers Including Nvidia.
*Cryptomania Returns!
*The Number of 401(K) Millionaires on Track for Record!
*Lithium Stocks at Rock Bottom?
*Is Zoom’s Business Ready to Boom?
*Beyond Meat’s Revolting Decline Interrupted by Short Squeeze!
U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Chain Type Prince Index, Month over Month Seasonally Adjusted & Year over Year Seasonally Adjusted (01/31/2021 – 01/31/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (12/31/2021 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (12/31/2021 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
AbbVie, Inc. (12/29/2023 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
BWX Technologies, Inc. (12/29/2023 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Diamondback Energy, Inc. (12/29/2023 – 02/16/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Microsoft Corp. (12/29/2023 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (12/29/2023 – 03/01/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Quarterly Earnings Analysis By Sector (11/16/2023 – 02/15/2024)
– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Profit Report
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