The StockDr & Team are back to discuss all the compelling headlines with the Markets this week. AMZN, TSLA, DIDI, HOOD, and BTC continue to revel in the spotlight, I guess it’s true what they say, “there is no such thing as bad publicity”. Did a New York Lake just become the world’s largest hot tub? Stick around to find out!

Amazon finally broke out this week from their 10-month base, the move transpired on very high volume. Their market capitalization has increased $102.86 billion since Thursday to reach $1.83 trillion. With this move, Amazon now joins the likes of Facebook and Google, unlike Netflix who continues to lag and hold their fellow FANG stocks back. 

TSLA hit a company record for Q2 in deliverables, by announcing last week that they produced and delivered more than 200K cars to customers for the first time. 

Robinhood is going HOOD, at least with their ticker. Last Thursday they filed an S-1 for an IPO. Robinhood’s funded accounts reached 18m vs. 7.2m in March 2020 (+151%). Assets under their custody are $80B vs. $19.2B in March 2020 (+417%). Revenue hit $522m in Q1 2021 vs. $128m in Q1 2020 (+309%). 60% of their sales come from payment for order flow, and they paid a record $70M fine to FINRA a day before filing its IPO papers. 

Recent IPO DIDI got hammered yesterday as the Chinese government announced it would not allow new users to download the app while it conducts a cybersecurity review. App stores were told to stop offering the app 2 days after IPO on the NYSE. The directive came after regulators found Didi had illegally collected users’ personal data. In June they were probed for Anti-trust violations which were disclosed in their prospectus.

REvil Hackers are back, and this time hacked more than 1 million systems through Kaseya, a software firm to a lot of small businesses including Dentists and Accounting Firms. They want $70 million in Bitcoin; this makes it the largest ransomware attack in history.

The Millennial Moment presented by our Mega-llennial, Nikki Ward discussed complaints expressed by residents regarding the environmental impact a Bitcoin mining plant is wreaking on their small Bucolic Region of Upstate New York.

At the Bitcoin Mining Plant, the computers operate 24/7, burning through an astounding amount of real energy, and producing real pollution, while collecting virtual currency. The plant draws 139 million gallons of water from Seneca Lake for cooling, then discharges 135 million gallons of the warmed water back into the lake. Locals have blamed bitcoin mining for heating up the largest of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, with one saying it's "so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub”. The discharged water can be as hot as 108 degrees in the summer and 86 degrees in winter. Rising water temperatures can stress fish and promote toxic algae blooms. The plant currently has a permit to emit 641,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year, though if Atlas wants to maximize its return on investment and use all 106 MW of the plant’s capacity, its carbon pollution could surge to 1.06 million tons per year. If that’s the case, air quality and wildlife don’t stand a chance.

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Oops!…They did it again, the StockDr & Team are back for another electric roundup discussing buzzworthy market and pop culture content hitting the news channels this week including a possible Bitcoin ETF and Brittney Spears' conservatorship battle. Special guest, Ryan Issakainen joined the Team this week to discuss all things ETFs and First Trust. Ryan is an ETF Strategist and Senior Vice President at First Trust portfolios. He's no stranger to the public, with appearances on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and IBD, just to name drop a few.

Facebook closed with a $1 trillion market cap on Monday, a 100% increase from 4 years prior when they hit $500 million. Joining the prestigious trillion-dollar club with: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.

Cathie Wood just might be the rocket fuel Millennials have been waiting for. She is readying a Bitcoin ETF to “launch to the moon” as Redditors would say (type?) If approved by the SEC, it will be the first crypto ETF in the United States.

The Millennial Moment Spotlight presented by our Mega-llennial, Nikki Ward tackled the Britney Spears conservatorship. Was Britney Spears secretly trying to tell us what she was going through with her song titles? Womanizer, Toxic, Criminal, and Circus are just a few of her songs and adjectives to describe the private battle Britney has been fighting for years. WTF were we doing to not see a woman constantly spotlighted in the media so dimmed in her personal life? Britney Spears described a rigidly circumscribed existence, the result of a conservatorship, placed when a court deemed her unfit. Since then, she dropped album's bi-yearly, had a successful 4-year Las Vegas residency and toured worldwide. Despite her accolades, her father & conservatee, James Spears limits Britney to $2,000 weekly allowance. As the steward of her nearly $60 million dollar fortune, James's salary is $192 thousand plus commission. James has prospered off the back of his imprisoned daughter while she can’t afford the right to carry her own credit card, vacation, access her phone, remove her IUD, or get married without her father’s permission. The typical celebrity entourage prospers by catering to the star’s every whim, in Spears’s case, the opposite is true. This supposed madwoman in the attic is supporting a cast of thousands as they make a mint by keeping their benefactor prisoner. 

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Brokerage firm Baird has thrown in the towel and stopped covering GameStop. They stated speculative trading made by retail investors made it too difficult to give reasonable recommendations. CCL shares fell after announcing they may sell as much as $500 million shares. This is a great representation of what dilution looks like. Honda reported that they wanted to be completely electric by 2040 & are partnering with GM. Analyst at UBS cut TSLA’s price target by 9.5% taking it from $730 to $660. Conflicting with the PT by UBS, Webush reiterated TSLA as a buy.

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The StockDr & Team are back to discuss the unpredictable impulses within the market this week. The news of crypto crackdowns and shrinkflation take center stage.

For the first time in months, crypto stocks took a hit in value, based on more than just a tweet by the self-proclaimed “Dogefather”, Elon Musk. 

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $30,000 for the first time since the new year. That’s half of what it was worth just three months ago, and it is coming amid fears that China, where 65% of global BTC is mined, is trying to ban cryptocurrencies outright. The drop has wiped out nearly $400 million in value since last Friday, June 18th, which is when authorities in China’s Sichuan province ordered the crypto miners to shut down operations. Concurrently, with the Chinese Government, The Peoples Bank of China urged financial institutions not to provide services related to crypto activities.  

90% of China’s crypto mining has been shut down and crypto mining takes up .5% of the world’s electricity annually. This means if BTC was a country, it would be #33 in power consumption. Power consumption for BTC mining numbers: United States 7.2% | Russia 6.9% | Kazakhstan 6.2% | Malaysia 4.3%

The Millennial Moment presented by our Mega-llennial, explored the concept of Shrinkflation, albeit not new to the marketplace but rearing its ugly head. 

Shrinkflation, by definition, is the practice of reducing the size of a product while maintaining the sticker price. This is a strategy companies use to stealthily boost profit margins. 

The price of raw materials has increased dramatically, and companies are passing the increased cost on to consumers by giving them less product. The United Nation's FAO Food Price Index reported global food prices jumped in May, marking the biggest month-on-month gain since October 2010, and bringing the index to its highest point since September 2011. 

The dramatic increase in the price of raw materials is placing food producers and grocery stores in a bind. The rising rates place them in a dilemma, to decide whether to increase the consumer's sticker price or to charge the same amount but shrink the package size. Because many shoppers tend to base their purchasing decisions on price, rather than examining the weight of the package, most producers and grocers are opting for the latter. Popular brand examples:

Goldman Sachs thinks this bull market has more room to run. Their estimate is that the current household has 44% in equity slightly below the all-time high of 46% in 2007. But they see high cash balances and continued retail participation will as bolstering demand.

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The StockDr & Team discuss the impact Elon Musk’s tweets continue to have on the Cryptocurrency market, Netflix holding the FAANG stocks back, market volatility, and the moral dilemma of permissible economic exploitation.

The Millennial Moment Spotlight with our Mega-llennial touches on economic exploitation that’s perfectly legal, but is it right?

There is a shift in the market again. Money is flowing back into mega cap tech. The FAANG names are all above their 50-day moving average except NFLX which is acting quite poorly.

BTC jumped after Elon Musk said he would resume accepting BTC when its' clean energy usage reached reasonable levels.

Our top holdings at Siler Wealth Management: AAPL, Griffin REIT, FTXH (pharma), FTXL (semi’s), JH Int’l Fund, GNOM (bio-tech), AMZN, TSLA, ARKK, XOM, DIS, NVDA, NIO, GILD, COST, CCL

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The StockDr & Team discuss, how to look at insider selling, AMC, Crypto, Biogen, & Amazon Sidewalk

The Millennial Moment Spotlight by our Mega-llennial, Nikki Ward, focused on Amazon's newest feature, Sidewalk. If you own Amazon products like Alexa, Echo, or Ring devices, you have automatically been opted in by Amazon. Sidewalk "borrows" your internet bandwidth to share with your neighbor's devices. For Millennials, this seems to be the biggest intrusion since Apple automatically uploaded the U2 album to our phones.

AMC…first a stock or a company is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That said, someone is obviously willing to pay $50+ for the stock. Research firm Webush Raised its PT on AMC from $6.50 to $7.50. Which is still about 85% lower from where it is. However, they did say with the money they have recently raised if used properly the stock could hit $10…

All crypto currency’s are on the defensive as the FBI was able to recover most of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline. The investigators were able to access the p/w for one of the hackers' bitcoin wallets. This was recovered by a recently launched task force. The admitted hackers “Darkside” received $90 million before getting shut down.

A landmark approval for Biogen (BIIB) and their Alzheimer therapy drug should be a big winner even if only used on a small percentage of the patients. This is a watershed moment BIIB and the 6 mil US patients with the disease. Cost of the drug is $56K per year, However, Biogen CEO Michael Vounatsos says the price will remain the same for 4 years.

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The StockDr & Team are back to discuss an interesting week in the market. Hear all about the JBS Cyber-Attack, TSLA, AMC, Ford's Electric Mustang, when to sell your growth or momentum stocks, and Robinhood's top-held stocks as we enter June.

Millennial Moment Spotlight with our Mega-llennial:

JBS, one of the worlds most prominent meat processing businesses, was the victim of a far-reaching cyber-attack this weekend. It immediately effected JBS’s production pipeline, halting processing operations at meatpacking plants in Canada, states like Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Texas, as well as forcing the company to cancel entire lamb and beef kills across Australia. The one-two punch of the recent ransomware attacks shows no industry is safe. Is there a possible link between the popularity of Cryptocurrency and recent Ransomware Hacks?

Meme Stocks: AMC stock had a great week, it doubled. The company sold 8 million shares to Mudrick Cap. Mgmt. @ $27.12 for $230.5 Mil. The use of proceeds are for potential acquisitions, upgrading theater’s and deleveraging.

EV stocks are starting to look interesting. TSLA currently 30% off its high, NIO 36%, LI Auto 50%, FSR 56% and the ancillary stocks all down huge.

Oil jumps to its highest level in two years just as we start the summer travel season.

Robin Hood’s top held stocks as we enter June.

1) TSLA 2) AAPL 3) AMC, 4) SNDL 5) F 6) GE 7) NIO 8) DIS   9) MSFT 10) AMZN

Our top 10 holdings at Siler Wealth Management

1) AAPL 2) FTXH 3) FTXL 4) AMZN 5) TSLA 6) DIS 7) ARKK  8) XOM 9) NVDA 10) COST

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In this episode, the Team and special guest, Dr. Randy Anderson discuss Amazon acquiring MGM, the home to James Bond, Rocky, The Handmaid's Tale, and Thelma & Louise, in what would be their biggest deal since acquiring Whole Foods in 2017. The team also touches on stock splits, viewer questions about the ARKK innovation ETF, and all about Griffin Capital. The Team was joined by, Dr. Randy Anderson, who serves as Chief Executive Officer of Griffin Capital Asset Management Company and Chief Economist of Griffin Capital Company, LLC. In addition, Dr. Anderson serves as Chief Investment Officer of Griffin Capital Advisor, LLC, Executive Vice President, Secretary and Trustee of Griffin Institutional Access® Credit Fund, and Portfolio Manager of Griffin Institutional Access® Real Estate Fund. They discuss everything from Amazon acquiring, stock splits, viewer questions, and all about Griffin Capital.

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The StockDr and Team dive into AT&T, Millennials regretting their recent home purchases, and Fidelity thinking about giving a no fee brokerage account to teens. The Millennial Moment spotlight stole the show with a hot topic, Crypto Catfish. Since October 2020, consumers have reported losing more than $80 million to crypto-investment scams. Most recently consumers who lost $2 Million to fake Elon Musks are begging the FTC for help to get their money back. 

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