Analysis

TradingKey - The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), widely regarded as Wall Street’s "fear gauge," has dropped sharply after briefly surging above 50 last week. It has since pulled back to the 30 range.

TradingKey - Against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s "deregulation" agenda, Wall Street’s major banks have yet to stage a significant rally in early 2025. However, buoyed by high interest rates and policy uncertainty under the Trump administration, the Q1 earnings reports from the six...

For investors, TSMC's current valuation has not yet fully reflected its growth potential in the AI ​​chip market. It is recommended to pay attention to its progress in 2nm process mass production and CoWoS capacity expansion.

ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) stock saw a big valuation pullback in Wednesday's trading. The company's share price fell 7% in the day's trading, and had been down as much as 8.6% earlier in the session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) fell 2.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) fell 3.1%

TradingKey - Netflix enters its Q1 2025 earnings report on a wave of guarded optimism. Analysts expect Netflix to post strong year-over-year growth in Q1, with consensus revenue at 1.5billion (+11.7% YoY) and EPS at 5.67(+7.4%YoY).

Although ASML's financial situation remains robust, driven by high-margin EUV systems and strict cost management, macroeconomic uncertainties, especially tariffs, and the cyclical slowdown in semiconductor demand have caused some concerns about near-term growth.

The Trump administration’s tariff policies may exacerbate trade tensions, raising import costs and indirectly fueling inflation pressures. This uncertainty could slow global economic growth and even heighten recession risks.

TradingKey - SFL has secured $4.3 billion in fixed-rate charter backlog, adding $2 billion of new commitments in 2024 alone, primarily with investment-grade counterparties.

TradingKey - Whereas most of the market is fixated on user-facing AI platforms or model providers, AppLovin (APP) is a sneakier, but no less effective, beneficiary of the generative AI revolution.

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), a major player in the financial services industry, released its earnings for Q1 2025 on April 15, 2025.The quarter was marked by a significant earnings beat with EPS (GAAP) coming in at $0.90, outperforming market expectations by 9.8%. Revenue (GAAP) totaled $27.37...

As the world's leading semiconductor foundry, TSMC's Q1 2025 revenue reached NT$839.254 billion, a year-on-year increase of 41.6%, exceeding market expectations and in line with the company's guidance of NT$820 billion to NT$846.24 billion.

TradingKey - As ASML Holding reports its Q1 2025 results, investors are watching closely how the company navigated the semiconductor sector's volatility in the latest period.

The start of a new trading week was quite the boon for established Chinese tech stocks. A respite -- perhaps even a reversal -- in the recent trade conflict with the U.S. resulted in a surge of bullishness for the sector, and a host of known titles saw encouraging price boosts.Among these were...

TradingKey - Trump's tariff policy has led to rising costs for electric vehicles and energy storage, intensified market competition, and declining demand in China and the United States.The company is heavily dependent on China's rare earths and batteries and needs to accelerate local production...

TradingKey - SOFI Financial Services and Tech now comprise 47% of adjusted net revenue in 2024, up from 38% in 2023, accelerating the shift away from lending.

TradingKey - 3M CEO Brown targets $1B in cost-outs and 1,000 new product launches by 2027, signaling a rigorous shift toward margin-driven operational performance.

TradingKey - For years, institutional investors wrote Robinhood (HOOD) off in unqualified terms as a retail trading flash-in-the-pan, a beneficiary of a pandemic-driven speculative mania.

TradingKey - Grab (GRAB) Q4 2024 adjusted EBITDA jumped 173% YoY to $146 million, driving $253 million in operating cash flow and confirming platform-wide leverage.

TradingKey - Gold stocks emerged as a bright spot in last Friday’s market session. Barrick Gold (GOLD ) saw its share price rise 7.02%, Newmont Corporation climbed 7.91%, and Coeur Mining (CDE) soared with a 7.83% gain. 

The forward PE valuation is expected slightly decline to 26 times. With the increase in the dividend yield and share repurchase yield, there is a likelihood of a 10% increase in 2025 under the low-interest-rate environment.