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The U.S. Market Offers Fewer Compelling Buying Opportunities
The major U.S. indices turned lower last week, with key trendlines also coming under pressure. In such an environment, momentum is clearly favoring the sellers, making it difficult to identify attractive buying opportunities for the time being. The key question, of course, remains whether we are witnessing the beginning of a lasting trend reversal or merely a short-lived yet sharp correction. Accordingly, although a few stocks met the predefined screening criteria this week, none of them offered a particularly compelling entry point.
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Among U.S. indices, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have broken their upward trends,which had been lasting for months. There is room for a correction, so it may only be worth buying well below current levels. The Russell 2000 began its decline earlier and has continued to fall since then. The DAX and the Stoxx 600, on the other hand, are showing some reversal from their strong support levels, but this appears to be more of a correction. The index tracking emerging markets has also broken below the lower boundary of its trading range and has begun a trend-like decline.
In early July we sent a Trading Idea related to Meta shares, as we believed that several announcements had been made that could positively influence investor sentiment toward the company in the short-term. This worked well for a short time, but then the stock fell along with the broader technology sector, partly due to the launch of a new Chinese AI model, the Kimi K3. The company published its disappointing earnings report on Wednesday after the market close amid this weaker market sentiment, causing the stock price to reach our previously set stop-loss level during yesterday’s trading. Accordingly, we are closing our Trading Idea.
The Chinese Kimi K3 model, which made American investors worried was unveiled in mid-July and it was developed by Beijing based Moonshot AI. The new AI model caused concern among investors primarily because it performed very well against its American competitors (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) while doing so at a lower cost, which triggered a sell-off in certain technology stocks.
The situation was further complicated by the fact that the weaker performance of technology stocks also put pressure on certain investment funds. For example, Situational Awareness—a hedge fund that had previously performed exceptionally well and managed approximately $45 billion—was forced to sell all of its public stock holdings due to margin requirements (though it retained some of its private equity holdings).
Meta’s disappointing earnings report was released on Wednesday after the market close amid this weaker market environment. The company met expectations in terms of revenue, but profits fell short of estimates, although one-off items also played a significant role in this. Furthermore, the company’s forecast for the current quarter was disappointing and may indicate that the ramp-up in computing capacity sales will be slower than expected. Meanwhile, consistently high investment plans may continue to put pressure on free cash flow generation. As a result, the stock price fell sharply during yesterday’s trading and reached our previously set stop-loss level. Accordingly, we are closing our Trading Idea.
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