Shares of $Ford Motor (F.US)$ ( F -2.79% ) stock fell hard in afternoon trading Thursday, down 4.3% as of 1:20 p.m. ET.
The British banker downgraded Ford shares to equal weight this morning, you see, and slashed its price target on Ford by 26%, to just $17 per share.
Ford looks "vulnerable to the ongoing chip shortage," warns Barclays, having secured supplies of only about one-third of the semiconductor chips it needs to build its targeted number of...

Global stock markets rallied on Wednesday as Ukraine and Russia looked to resume diplomatic talk.
If the talks between Ukraine and Russia lead to a de-escalation of the war, investors will refocus their attention on "the prices of oil and other commodities, and whether central banks will have to change course."
$S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ rose 2.6% for its biggest daily gain in 12 years.
Investors seemed relieved and stopped ...

EV stocks have multiplied in $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ wake and as electric cars look to go mainstream — but not all are created equal. Some car stocks are more ready than others for an EV future. Here are the top-rated electric vehicle makers and EV plays.
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"I continue to view Ford’s EV/ICE split as necessary since it allows $Ford Motor (F.US)$ EV biz to build an entirely separate culture, copies $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ ‘s direct sales model, and recruit top engineering talent by tying incentives to EV rev growth. But it won’t ever be TSLA."

$Moderna (MRNA.US)$ is now working on a COVID-19 booster that could protect against the omicron variant. The booster is expected to be ready in the fall and is entering clinical trials soon. It is likely, but not certain that the booster will contain omicron.
After the news was released on Monday, Moderna's stock price has up more than 9%.
$Pfizer (PFE.US)$  CEO Albert Bourla said in an interview on CNBC that a new version of its COVI...

1. More Rational, Less Emotional - you will tend not to be affected by market volatility. This allows you to sleep better at night. Generally, long term investing is less stressful vis-à-vis trading
2. You don’t have to time the market - time in market over timing the market. And staying invested throughout will leverage on compounding interest. A lot of people underestimate the power of it.
3. Save time - when you don’t have to try to time the market, it saves a lot of your time as you don’t need to do research or watch the market movements daily
4. Lesser investment risks - a lot of people also underestimate this portion. Swing / day traders definitely face more risks. But that doesn’t mean their method is wrong/not good - these traders put in lots of time and efforts to manage the risk. Hence kudos to them. Everyone has their own plan and risk appetite, that’s all I can say
5. Be part of the company - by holding stocks over long term means you’re part of the company (in a way). You will grow with the company and join its journey to success (hopefully!)
6. Bonus: Make friends - you can meet like minded people and shout “to the moon” with the fellow long term stock holders :)
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$Rivian Automotive (RIVN.US)$ Rivian has disclosed that its factory in Nomore, Illinois, has an annual capacity of 150,000 EVs, and plans to increase that to 200,000 with more investment in the R1 production line. In addition to its factory in Nomore, Illinois, Rivian has also announced that it will build a $5 billion plant near Atlanta with the capacity to produce 400,000 electric cars a year.
Investment banks including Wedbush, $Morgan Stanley (MS.US)$ and Piper Sandler maintained their positive ratings on the stock, despite investor jitters following Rivian's earnings report last week.

Without a doubt, 2021 is a remarkable year.
All of us have grown a lot, so has moomoo. In the past year, moomoo delivered a series of crucial features to empower mooers on their investing journeys. There is a lot that we are eager to share with mooers.
As Futu turned 9 years old, moomoo has ceremoniously selected 9 representative blockbuster features for you. Here we go!
1. LV2 Quotes of US Stock
Mooer's Pick:
@GT1982: If there is one feature that...

Hello Mooers , welcome to our topic on long-term investment.
Today, we are going to try something new . We are going to use our TOPI matrix to decide how to go about with our investment.
The TOPI matrix covers Timeframe, Objectives, Positioning and Investment.
Timeframe [T]
First, we decide if we are going to put our money for short term (1 to 3 years), mid term (3 to 8 years) or long term (more than 8 years), before we harvest to pay for our goals.
Objectives [O] (or Goals)
Next, we need to find out our objectives (or goals) that we wish to achieve. These can be down-payment for a car or birthday gifts for our loved ones (short term goals), buying a new house or going for an oversea tour (mid term goal) or our retirement (long term goal).
Positioning [P] strategies
After setting our objectives, we use different positioning strategies to help us. Positioning strategies includes short term trading (positions that last at most a day), mid term trading (positions that last at most a month), long term trading (positions that last more than a month) and size of position (the amount of money into the investment for each position). We can choose the positioning strategies that we are more comfortable with.
Investment [I]
Lastly, we decide what kind of investment that we are keen & comfortable with. It can be short term investment (e.g. saving accounts, fixed deposit), mid term investment (e.g. bonds, index funds), long term investment (e.g. blue chips stocks), low risk investment (e.g. saving account), mid risk investment (e.g. index funds) and high risk investment (e.g. cryptocurrencies & commodities). It can also be mixture of any of them too.
By using the TOPI matrix, we can customize our investment to suit any duration investment, be it short term, mid term or long term ones, and to achieve the objectives that we set earlier.
Before we end, I would like to share a book, titled 'A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers From Warren Buffett'. It is one of the best book that summarize the essence of Warren Buffett knowledge in 81 pages.
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$Pfizer (PFE.US)$
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$Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$
$Bank Bradesco SA(prefer share ADS) (BBD.US)$
$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$
$AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$
$Lucid Group (LCID.US)$
$Bank of America (BAC.US)$
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$Tesla (TSLA.US)$
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$American Airlines (AAL.US)$
$Palantir (PLTR.US)$
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1) Free stocks or stock coupons
Will be great if we can redeem points for free stocks or stock coupons. Maybe some stocks with good fundamentals like $Apple (AAPL.US)$ or $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ will be great. Or maybe some $Futu Holdings Ltd (FUTU.US)$ stocks to support  moomoo. Or maybe some fun stocks like $AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$  .
2) moomoo Calendar
Will be useful to have a moomoo desktop calendar marking the holidays in markets that we can trade with moomoo. Will be cute to have different moomoo designs in the calendar