The Week That Is

Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says that while there are plenty of headline risks and scary numbers, investors should recognize that there is some opportunity hidden in the frightening talk. As a result, investors who saw Micron Technology's latest quarterly earnings grow year-over-year by 1,000 percent (yes, that's real), but whose skepticism has driven the stoc...

With the tide of headlines shifting from artificial intelligence solving the world's problems to being a menace that threatens humanity,  Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital, says the real story is about controlling narratives and development, and that the tide is not shifting to one that will upend the A.I. story. Vijay discusses how some of the industry's powerbrokers...

With growing worries about the impacts of artificial intelligence on nearly all aspects of our lives, Vijay Marolia discusses whether the creation of an "A.I. Force" and appointment of an "A.I. czar" could control and improve the development process or slow it down and set it back. Speaking of setbacks, Marolia - chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital - talks about Anthropic's plans for a...

When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made calls last week to slow the development of artificial intelligence, the market took notice, says Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , but it doesn't look like the warning will amount to much, at least in the short term, as companies continue to push to make major developments in the world-altering technology. Marolia also looks at w...

The bond market sold off last week, resulting in bond yields rising to levels unseen since 2007, scaring markets and investors at the same time that copper prices have risen to near record levels, raising concerns of how that key metal's availability could curtail development opportunities. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says that while the numbers are real, the...

The artificial-intelligence boom is powering the market, but there are concerns about whether the circular nature of the new technology — with one company supplying the next, which supplies the next — building an artificial support network that collapses if any player collapses, but Vijay Marolia ,  chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says investors shouldn't believe the hype about j...

Headlines are short-term events and while last week's news that the national debt had $40 trillion while Treasury yields reached levels last seen about 20 years ago, Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says the impact those events will have on the economy and the market are fleeting, noting that high yields and record national debt have been problems repeatedly in the...

If actions speak louder than words, then the upcoming earnings reports for WalMart and Target will be a better measure of consumer confidence than survey results. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says that the results should show that consumers — despite concerns about inflation — have not curtailed spending, and he breaks down the two big retailers to say which on...

Value stocks have been leading the way as the stock market flirts with record highs, but having value companies far outpace growth companies is normally something that only happens during troubling times. Couple that with a recent rebound in gold prices and it's fair to wonder whether the market might be headed for trouble here. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , say...

Last week, a little-known hedge fund called Situational Awareness imploded, and a massive selloff in A.I. stocks was narrowly averted, the kind of event that can bring an entire stock market crashing down. Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , worries that there are other potential market-shockers out there, far more than even savvy investors recognize, and that there m...

In a market that seems to be disconnecting headlines from reality, Vijay Marolia says investors should be looking to be shown different kinds of proof, rather than following the herd. So when high capital expenditures from artificial-intelligence plays have come under question and the market has reacted harshly, Marolia, chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says it's a clearance sale...

With earnings on tap this week for Alphabet, Intel, Tesla and more — and after a week in which IBM shares were cut by a quarter in a single day — Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital says that Mr. Market is showing his "manic depressive" tendencies, getting so excited by guidance and potential that the reaction to positive earnings has been horrible stock action. The goo...

With Korean chip maker SK Hynix having a record launching for its domestic IPO last week and ASML Holding slated to report earnings on Wednesday, chip stocks are again proving that they have the power to drive portfolios, and Vijay Marolia , chief investment officer at Regal Point Capital , says investors need to balance the big numbers with appropriate caution so that they can profit from the ris...

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...