Albemarle ALB US added +4.59% in yesterday’s session.

However there seems to be resistance / selling around $189.00 ( see the chart below) .
Of course it has had a good run, rallying by almost +30.0% over the last month and by +10.77% this week, so some profit taking seems inevitable.

The price action in today’s session and the weekly…[Read more]

I picked South Korea as the market most likely to outperform the US stock indices in in 2026.

You can see my thinking and comments here https://invesdaq.com/forums/topic/can-any-other-index-beat-the-us-stock-markets-in-2026/

Korean markets have had a good start to 2026 and continue to make gains.

The chart below shows the South Korea…[Read more]

US dollar weakens against Swedish SEK and Norwegian NOK

Earlier in the week, I discussed about the ‘Sell America’ topic due to intensifying macro volatility. The three main asset classes to underweight are: US dollar, Treasuries and US equities.

Since that publication, it appears that the Trump administration has recoiled from using the most bru…[Read more]

I highlighted the upside potential in ARM Holdings ARM US yesterday. At that point they were trading at $115.00.

I am pleased to say that they are $121.00 in the US pre market this morning up by +6.39% .

ARM Holdings, once a UK listed company, that back in the day was spun out of Acorn Computer.

More recently ARM was listed in the US by its parent Softbank.

ARM makes its living by designing silicon chips, often for fabless customers and when those designs are manufactured, by the likes of TSMC or Intel, who run Fabs or Foundries, ARM…[Read more]

Chinese Tech Boom

A year after the ‘DeepSeek’ moment, what has happened to the Chinese technology space? Plenty.

From chip-making to LLMs to robotics, the entire China technology chain is powering forward rapidly.

The weekly chart of Chinese chip-maker Cambricon Technologies (ticker: 688256) tells you broadly the sector’s upward traje…[Read more]

It’s been a week of surprises, but perhaps one of the biggest (so far) has been the move in US Natural Gas. It was only on January 14 that Nat Gas CFDs, were trading at $3.15, compare that to the $4.74 they are trading at now.

I look at the ETF UNG, The US Natural Gas Fund, to track sentiment towards the US fuel. As you can see below…[Read more]

Japanese equities have sold off over the last 36 hours as you can see in the first chart below. The Nikkei 225 has fallen by -2.80% over recent days, pushed lower by a change in sentiment – a move to risk-off.

Which means a stronger Yen, and that in turn adds pressure to Japanese stock prices.

The second chart below provides some…[Read more]

Its macro over micro at the moment as far as drivers of sentiment are concerned and that has shown in itself in the thoughts of strategists at Citigroup who have downgraded Europe today on the back of additional tariffs imposed by the US as a punishment for supporting Denmark over Greenland.
European indices are falling once more

President Trump…[Read more]

We recently looked at where Lloyd’s Banking stock might be in 5 years time.

You may recall that I said I preferred a bank with non-UK exposures, such as Barclays BARC LN .

JP Morgan writes on the sector today.

They nominate Barclays as their top pick, with an overweight rating, and a positive catalyst watch on the stock.
JPM are…[Read more]

Unsold stocks to extend Diageo’s bear trend?

According to a recent weekend Financial Times article, major alcohol companies are sitting on a staggering $22bn worth of unsold products.[1]

This ‘lake of unsold spirits’ will likely swell further this year, when more stocks matured. The total unsold inventory hoard is likely to grow close to 40-50…[Read more]

Markets could be in for a a reset this week as the macro appears to overwhelming the micro.

Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance on Greenland could see the introduction of additional trade tariffs against EU states. Whilst its also possible that the US might take military action against the ruling regime in Iran.

Markets dislike…[Read more]

The third Monday in January (today 19/01/26) is also known as “Blue Monday” as it has the reputation of being the most depressing day of the year.

That’s thanks to a combination of holiday excess, in terms of both expenditure and consumption,
And with people often having been paid early in December, by mid January, bank accounts are…[Read more]

Beware of overstretched uptrends

In the realm of investing, what’s the difference between Buffett and the rest? The answer is straightforward. He does things differently.

In what ways, you ask. For one, unlike most investors he is not really excited by rallies. He prefers declines. He even coined a famous phrase for this: “Be fearful when oth…[Read more]

It’s no secret that stock markets are cyclical, swinging from bullish to bearish and back again as investor sentiment oscillates between greed and fear .

This happens at a micro level intraday, and at the macro level overtime scales of years ,or even decades .

What isn’t always appreciated is that markets are also prone to fashions. And…[Read more]