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Top industry stock portfolios that earned the most in the last 42 weeks | Week 38 | 2022 | The US Stock Market

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     What earned the most in almost a recent year? The results are explicit. Far from the news & investors media one industry stock portfolio in silence went above 140% four weeks ago (since then is continuously declining). An  above figure shows that there is only one leader and a few others that are chasing his tail. Nevertheless, the majority resides below zero, some of them far below it.     This analysis takes into consideration only the industry stocks portfolios comprised of the large-cap stocks with the highest market-cap. For the purpose of this comparison, this investment started 42 weeks ago with 100$ put on each. Since then, each portfolio result was tracked on the weekly basis.  Overall, as of the week 38 (2022) only 13 industry portfolios (out of 100) ended up with a positive return. The detailed portfolio analytics will be provided only for the top 5. #13 Banks-Regional +0,11% #12 Agricultural Inputs +1,38% #11 Copper +4,03% #10 Utilities-Regulated Electric +5,63% #9

Week 37 | 2022 | US Market overview

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  Significant change in CBOE Gold Volatility during one week (by 3.75), such a change is the second biggest change (in the last 1,5 year) after the one recorded on 2022-03-04 caused by Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other index related VIXes also recorded relative increase.    Entire market did not perform well. Only a few industries had a positive median of the weekly returns: Travel Services, Utilities-Regulated Water, Marine Shipping and Lodging.  The worst performing industry of the week 37 is Uranium, which recorded the lowest median of the weekly stocks returns. Moreover, the entire Uranium stocks portfolio lost 10.95% during one week. Contrary to Uranium, Oil & Gas E&P and Oil & Gas Drilling were industry stocks portfolio that gained the most during the week 37.  The significant volume changes on stocks has been seen across two industries: Banks-Regional and Utilities-Regulated Water. In the latter industry two stocks are worth mentioning: AWR | American States Water C

Week 35 | 2022 | US Stock Market | the winner of the week is...

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  Uranium was the only one industry with the positive median of the weekly stocks returns at the end of the week 35 2022.  As of the week 35 Uranium sector became an industry with the highest percentage of positive news within the electronic media. In the previous week, Uranium was on the 17th place, next huge jump over one week and landing on the 1st place.  Uranium stocks portfolio shows relatively strong rebound which has started 2 weeks ago. Uranium related news: https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/08/29/why-uranium-energy-all-uranium-stocks-jumped-today/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRXkq8BSDQ Contrary to uranium, worst performing industry stocks of the recent week are: Auto Manufacturers Gambling  Semiconductor Equipment & Materials  FinancialMarkets.cloud News and observations in this article were extrapolated from publicly available data, and subsequently processed by the FinancialMarkets.cloud system powered by Artificial Intelligence. *** Disclaimer Please note tha

August | 2022 | US Stock Market | Uranium and Thermal Coal stocks - undisputed winners of the month

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  Only two industries (Uranium and Thermal Coal) in August 2022 were depicted as a strong gainers (median of the monthly returns relatively far away from 0 and a tight spread of all monthly returns within each group)  Moreover, Uranium and Thermal Coal had the highest number of stocks with monthly positive returns across other 99 industries.  August's Uranium stocks behavior (as a strong gainer) was also seen explicitly by machine learning algorithm (PCA). Uranium industry on the below figure is far away from the rest of the group (an anomaly) As described in the week 24, Centrus Energy Corp (LEU)  still sustains its continuous growth within the Uranium stocks group.  As seen in the following figures LEU (NYSE) has outperformed its peers by more than 100% in August. Centrus Energy Corp gained almost 50% in August. Worth mentioning is the fact that LEU is not involved in mining like other uranium stocks. It produces nuclear fuel High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) and delivers