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Wednesday - Dip Buying

Futures and stocks rally on dip buying. Oil resumed decline due to restriction concerns and increase in Covid19 cases. Crypto Index is up about 66% in 2020, exceeding gold’s jump of more than 20%. Although Gold had a fantastic run but it has lost steam lately. There was so much hype on Tesla's battery day, even Elon tried to play it down before the event. Later Musk promised deliveries in 2020 would be up by 30% and plans to make its own large battery cells to make $25,000 full self-driving car by 2023. Walmart partnered with drone services to start delivering COVID-19 test kits. U.S.-China relations remain a risk for markets, with Trump accusing the country of "allowing flights to leave China and infect the world.” Although Nike's sale didn't grow, it returned to profit and the stock rallied. Revenue was far better than expected and Wall street was bracing for lower sales. The social optimisems soon gave way to pessimism, as Saudi economic reforms stalled, while youth...

Sunday - Volatile Sep

The market doesn't always go up smoothly. This month has been volatile and it could go on for a while. Main US indexes finished slightly lower on Fri and dollar was about flat. Crude and crypto were a bit under pressure.  US Farmers had their third bail out ($14 billion). The funny thing about it is that China has major farm lands in US; so much for the China deal! As long as federal reserve keeps printing, this paradigm will get applied to other industries too; i.e. airlines. Trump blesses Oracle's TikTok, leaving Microsoft a looser. Snowflake IPO doubled this week; for those who could get on the initial deal though, not us. I think we should wait a bit for SNOW to drop before riding it. Similar case for Unity Software Inc (U).  Biden's chances for a 2021 presidency is growing; currently ahead of the Donald. Saudi building the city of future, the Neom.  Let me know what you think. Keep smiling and stay charitable.