The Week That Is

There were a lot of big celebrations over the weekend, and Vijay Marolia looked for fireworks beyond those celebrating America's big birthday. Marolia, the chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , Amazon, celebrating its 32nd birthday and Tesla celebrating a big forthcoming manufacturing announcement about a key change to its business, so he digs in on each of those stocks using his "five...

Micron Technology had another stellar quarter and looks poised for more of the same and while Vijay Marolia continues to ride the stock — one he called out correctly as being a bargain when its stock price struggled despite great earnings numbers three months ago — he does see some potential troubles that could make the ride bumpy. Still, Marolia, the chief investment officer at Regal Point Capita...

Kevin Warsh, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, made his debut last week, and took a hawkish stance, gave no dot plot or forecasting help, and held the central bank's statement to a terse 130 words; Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says it's a good start, and a sign of better times ahead. He also discusses the news that Charles Schwab Corp. is planning to ent...

SpaceX launched its stock with a record-breaking initial public offering last week, but the rush of money to the shares didn't change the mind of Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , who notes that the company's "total addressable market" may be the size of the entire GDP for the United States, but the issue is what the company is actually addressing and how much marke...

Broadcom shares dropped 15% despite on the day the company announced it had solidly beaten earnings expectations, but Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital, says the problem was that management was punished for "sandbagging," the practice of understating expectations so that they are easy to beat; Broadcom held future AI-driven revenue projections steady, triggering Wall...

Mounting credit-card bills are a sign that consumers may be reaching the end of their [credit] limits, more than low sentiment numbers. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , discusses how faltering consumers could drag down the rest of the market, if they wind up reducing spending, cutting into corporate earnings and curtailing the profit growth that has driven the mark...

Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , has been banging the drum on the troubles with higher inflation for longer, and reveals this week that his superhero alter-ego would be "Captain inflation." But because Marolia's primary tool is a reminder that investors need to adjust to inflation, he needs a sidekick with power, and he gets one this week in Kevin "The Hawk" Warsh...

Growing fears about a war-driven, lingering price shock to oil sent bond prices falling last week, with yields reaching their high for the year and promising more without a quick resolution. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capita l digs into what the bond market is saying and how the message differs from the stock market. He also expects the equity markets to send a message...

Jobs numbers came out strong last week, but there are some dissenting opinions about whether they can remain stable.  Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , joins the optimists, though he suggests the numbers have room to flex and will continue to make it hard for the Federal Reserve to cut rates quickly or deeply. Marolia also discusses the wild GameStop bid to buy eBay...

Last week saw the trillion-dollar giants reporting earnings and the market was impressed with the results from Alphabet (Google) and disappointed with numbers from Meta Platforms (Facebook), and Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , is in line with those reactions but is looking past the quarterly numbers for what the market's response is suggesting about each company l...

After a week in which Nvidia and Intel powered the stock market back to near record levels, Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says the rally in one of those stocks feels temporary while the other can roll on, and says that the difference points out how investors should re-evaluate the way they see "tech stocks," because different industries lumped broadly within tec...

After the stock market rebounded to record-high levels after a peace treaty announcement last week, Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital and the founder of Dharma Investing LLC, looks at how the market is responding to the flip-flop in new that the waterway is closed again, awaiting peace talks, and discusses whether investors should expect the market to take off once th...

With consumer sentiment at record lows -- but consumer confidence improving ever so slightly -- in March, Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , discusses why feelings make headlines but fundamentals make for better investment prospects. That's why he's leaning into some of the market's most beaten down sectors, most notably the private-credit market, which has been hamm...

Volatility in the oil markets has changed investment opportunities, and Vijay Marolia says he has responded in several ways, from going long on oil futures using a popular ETF to shorting airline stocks. Marolia, the chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , talks about the benefits and pitfalls to hunkering down and trying to avoid the market until headlines settles, but also talks about...

The market is fully focused on the most current of current events — the war in Iran and the rapidly changing market sentiments in the battle between artificial intelligence and software — and Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says investors should back away from the headlines and keep a sharper watch on the economic numbers that will determine how the market respond...

With an earnings report akin to Nvidia's but recent stock performance getting hammered like Microsoft, Vijay Marolia makes the case that Micron Technologies is being buffeted by a feelings-over-facts market, and that investors are missing one of the most compelling stories on the street. Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , puts Micron through his five-lens process to show wh...

War in Iran has driven oil prices above $100 per barrel and Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , expects them to stay there for the foreseeable future, though he notes that the short-term is barely foreseeable given all of the current headline risks. His investment play into the oil uncertainty is with tanker companies, rather than oil producers, noting that they are m...

The earliest impacts of the war in Iran are already showing, but Vijay Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says investors shouldn't let the early price action in oil and other markets shake their confidence in the market's ability to get through a period of uncertainty before resuming an upward trajectory. He also looks at the upward trajectory in the inflation rate, which h...

 With tensions escalating in the Middle East leading to fears of what could happen to oil prices and energy markets, Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , discusses how that potential "disruption" is one of several investors are facing now. Another is the recent selloff in software stocks, caused by fears that booming artificial-intelligence capabilities will diminish t...

Disappointing results last week for gross domestic product were a temporary setback, caused in part by the effects of last fall's government shutdown, but Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital expects GDP to come roaring back over the next nine months, topping the 4% level and going beyond the mere snap-back from the shutdown impact. He suggests that will happen provided...

Having said often that he believes "software will eat the world," Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , discusses how last week's software sell-off isn't changing his view, and is putting some attractive companies on sale. Speaking of sales, he weighs in on the "Sell America" sentiment that is widespread in global markets right now, and what it is saying for the dollar,...

With jobs and inflation data on tap for this week — and the stock market coming off a big downturn in software stocks — Vijay Marolia discusses investors' nerves and how some might be letting headlines get in the way of good long-term buying opportunities, particularly if the market keeps putting software on sale. Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital and and the founder of Dhar...

Just as silver and gold reached record highs last week, volatility spiked after Kevin Warsh was announced as the nominee to become the next Federal Reserve chairman. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , discusses what was behind the spike in volatility and why investors should ignore it, but he also looks at winners and losers among four Big Tech stocks that recently a...

Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , enjoyed the "Game of Thrones" atmosphere he saw from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, and says the lesson from the event was to keep watching geopolitics without over-reacting to them by overhauling your portfolio. Further, in "The Week That Is," he discusses how the market is reacting to feelings rather tha...

Earnings season started last week with the financial-services companies reporting big numbers, overcoming interest-rate and other concerns along the way. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , looks at that big start and talks about what's next, including the two companies that he thinks are must-watch news for week two of earnings releases. He also discusses what he's l...