Rickie Reeve

Health insurer stock prices fell today after UnitedHealth($UNH) said the number of surgeries for adults age 65 and older increased more than expected over the past two months.
Health insurers have benefited from delaying non-urgent surgeries due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages at hospitals.

For example, the popular $CVS here fell less than 6%. An opportunity to...
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Beware!

Why do the research when someone else can do it better for you?

Berkshire Hathaway has been buying large quantities of $OXY for almost a year at a price of around $60. Despite these purchases, the stock price hasn't moved anywhere and is at similar levels.
Such purchases indicate to me that Berkshire has confidence in Occidental Petroleum, so why shouldn't I?
Warren Buffett...
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Most of you have probably registered the Bud Light $BUD scandal.
Since that scandal, the company's sales have plummeted, but despite that, Bud Light has remained the best-selling beer in the US.
The lower sales have, of course, had an impact on the share price, which has dropped by more than 15% since the event.

Have you bought shares in a company in an IPO?
It is quite common for the share price to rise immediately after an IPO. I have heard the opinion that it may not be a bad idea to take advantage of this with a bracket order. I am wondering if anyone has experience with this.

I'm also attaching an interesting figure (note, it's as of 3/13/2023) that compares the market...
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Target $TGT continued to fall this week
It is currently back to 2020 price levels.
If you can't beat inflation, you need to join it - I see a fine investment opportunity here.

I see a lot of investors focusing on small-cap companies. I'm sure many are unfairly overlooked and therefore undervalued. But then isn't the lack of available information a problem? After all, there is a lot of information about larger companies everywhere. I wonder the same thing about companies from "exotic" countries.
I would not like to invest purely on the basis of...
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The British economy has been through a difficult period since 2015

First there was uncertainty about the terms of the Brexit deal and its consequences, then came the Covid-19 pandemic, followed by wars in Europe, double-digit inflation and the currency crisis. That is almost 10 years of uncertainty that has led to low investor, business and consumer confidence.

This year, the...
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Unilever $UL
We all know the company. It offers a range of products that are all around us.

Travel recovers in the United States after covid slump

On average, more than 2.5 million passengers traveled on U.S. airlines daily last week, the most since August 2019.

I myself was under the mistaken impression that travel had still not returned to pre-Covid levels. Even the situation in Europe is slowly approaching 2019.
Yet airline stocks are still low.($LUV, $AAL)

Amazon $AMZN in talks to offer free mobile service to Prime subscribers in the U.S.

This news immediately negatively impacted telecom stocks such as $TMUS, $VZ and $T.
According to YahooFinance, Amazon has been talking to wireless carriers about offering low-cost, or possibly free, nationwide mobile phone service to Prime subscribers. Negotiations have reportedly been ongoing for...
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A few hours ago, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new virtual reality headset called Meta Quest 3 on his Instagram.

In terms of performance, it should be a decent step up - especially graphically. However, we'll find out more at the conference on September 27.
The price will be $500.

$SOFI is growing again in the premarket. 🟢

Could the tables have turned and SoFi stock has finally started to rise? For a long time, despite a lot of great news, SoFi has been falling in price. Many have even talked about manipulating the price of this stock.
I like to see these moves, but I don't put too much emphasis on them - SoFi is a long-term investment. I think it could be...
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How do you feel about $BABA?
The mood was very positive before the last results, but we were looking at below $80 towards the end of last week. This was mainly due to bad news from the cloud segment.
I'm curious to see how the price will perform this week... What do you think?

Good thing it's the S&P500 and not the S&P493. 😁