6 big name stocks that are down more than 50% over the last 52 weeks. UnitedHealth Group Moderna Novo Nordisk Centene Corporation Molina Healthcare and Gartner. Gartner is down 49.88%. Tesla Is Hiring, the Stock Is Rising. Musk Is Ramping Up His Robo-Taxi Drive. Barrons. Tesla is now down 16%

The markets are slightly down today as the Producer Price Index for July came in higher than expected.  The markets have been on a tear as the economy has slowed, and the odds of a Fed rate cut have improved.  https://lnkd.in/gGXPYc3F The Nasdaq and S&P 500 notch new records —

It’s great to get paid. It’s no fun to pay the bills. It is what it is. William Spizman RSM does an amazing job with the Mid Market Open. While the good lord loves Guten and Stein and Miller, I am sure the almighty hates the Brewers and the Packers

Do not artificially put a floor or ceiling on what you can accomplish. Get yourself thriving and in a good place and then you can start to think about capacity, potential and the upside. But in my experience, get yourself to a good place first where you are thriving and

Feby Abraham Memorial Hermann Health System and Venkat Mocherla Midstream Health on the Becker’s Healthcare podcast. There we discussed automation and AI and healthcare. I am very thankful and really enjoyed being a guest with Dr. Anushka Gaglani and Dr Abhishek Nagaraj on the Areo Dental Group this week.

A majority of the voters in my X survey agree that Elon Musk is the Michael Jordan of business and innovation. We are very impressed with the leadership at nimble solutions of Kelley Blair and the support and leadership of Nader Samii and Bob Wilhelm. A shoutout also to great

The Fed held rates steady. It’s hard to reduce rates when the government under each Democratic and/or Republican leadership keeps adding to the deficits. Deficits are very inflationary. A majority of the voters in my X survey disagreed with me and thought the Fed and Powell should lower rates.

U.S. Markets Surge – U.S. stock futures are surging higher after Meta and Microsoft reported better-than-expected quarterly results. Pre-market the major indexes are up nearly 1% and more.  https://lnkd.in/gTyvUAEX.  Microsoft & Meta Soar – Microsoft is up more than 8% pre-market on outstanding second quarter results. If that increase holds,

Amazing to see one of my best friends’ kids admitted to Harvard Law School. I didn’t think the dad was that smart. Congratulations.

Fantastic to speak about strategic planning and the length of strategic plans with business and legal leader Amber Walsh yesterday of McGuireWoods LLP.  We discussed a Bill Gates quote on strategy as the basis for the podcast.

American Express is up only 2.5% YTD notwithstanding the horrendous job I am doing controlling the use of the family AmEx cards.

Tenet Healthcare dropped nearly 11% yesterday despite reporting revenues and income that beat estimates. Total admissions were down slightly and ambulatory revenue slightly missed. https://lnkd.in/gmq-C65T.

Incredible to interview brilliant surgeon Elisabeth Potter, MD on the Becker’s Healthcare podcast. What an incredibly inspiring + formidable surgeon.

There are days when the stock market looks more like gambling than investing. Yesterday Krispy Kreme jumped 26% and GoPro jumped 41% as investors scrambled to cover short positions. Neither company had particularly strong results. https://lnkd.in/gMQ6MMVe

NVIDIA finally had a down day and dropped 2.54%. It remains up 24% year to date and has a market cap of $4.07 trillion to start the day.