Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Joe, How did you know what is good for the people is good for Wall Street?

September 28, 2021
By Ethan Wu

The team managing the $238 billion Walmart family fortune (click here) disclosed its holdings, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The Walton Investment Team held $5 billion in the stock market at the end of June, a 32% gain from $3.8 billion six months prior

The investment team managing the $238 billion Walmart family fortune revealed its stock picks in newly released disclosures, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The Walton Investment Team held $5 billion in the stock market at the end of June, up from $3.8 billion six months prior. That 32% gain came on the back of several low-cost exchange-traded funds as well as a few choice stocks.

The Waltons' largest holding was a $2.2 billion stake in VWO, Vanguard's emerging markets ETF, which rose 8.4% between December 2020 and June of this year. Other ETF holdings included various Vanguard and iShares funds in emerging markets and Treasury bonds.

Stock picks ranged widely from Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo to private equity giant Apollo Global Management and cloud computing firm Snowflake....

I think Walmart released it's earnings in hopes that Warren would think they had a better idea than Gates.

June 30, 2021
By Hamza Shaban

Wall Street wrapped up the first half of 2021 at record highs, (click here) with investors defying pessimistic projections of a broader pullback and pushing past concerns of rising inflation and potential rate hikes.

The Dow Jones industrial average advanced more than 210.22 points, or 0.6 percent, to close at 34,502.51 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 edged up 5.70 points, or 0.1 percent, to settle at 4,297.50 and chalked up its 34th record finish of the year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 24.38 points, or nearly 0.2 percent, to end the session at 14,503.95.

Wednesday’s session marked the midway point of a year that saw a new president move into the White House, shift in power on Capitol Hill amid the continuing shocks of the coronavirus pandemic. The three major U.S. indexes are up by double-digit percentages, with the Nasdaq advancing 12.5 percent, the Dow adding 12.7 percent and the S&P 500 surging 14.4 percent since Dec. 31, 2020....