Weekend Market Report
Good morning and welcome to this week’s market report. In this week’s report, we highlight Mistral’s latest raise, poke fun at Elon Musk for being a baby, and realize that this isn’t a stock market but the NVDA market. Gold and silver price forecasts are below the fold.
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Elon Musk Throws Another Temper Tantrum
Ol’ Musky Boy is throwing another tantrum, this time over Apple’s decision to incorporate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into the new iPhones.
Earlier in the day, Apple unveiled its long-awaited artificial-intelligence strategy at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which included featuring OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its latest iPhones. Apple said users will control when ChatGPT is used, and will need to give their permission before any data is shared.
“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation,” Musk said. - via MSN
What is it with that guy? Why is he such a big baby? First, he’s kissing Tim Cook’s ass not to leave Twitter (X) and now he’s all mad that AAPL is making smart moves. Modern-day Thomas Edison my ass.
Mistral Ai Raises 600 Mln Euros in Latest Funding Round
The GenAI boom isn’t over and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be for a while. Mistral just raised 600 million Euros in a Series B round. Wow, that’s a lot of money but most of it will probably go to NVIDIA for GPUs.
France’s Mistral AI has raised 600 million euros ($643.7 million) in a funding round led by existing investor General Catalyst, it said on Tuesday, as AI continues to draw the bulk of technology-focused venture capital funds.The Series-B funding round valued the one-year-old company at 5.8 billion euros, according to two sources directly involved with the deal. This is a sharp increase from its valuation of 2 billion euros during its prior funding round in December. - via Reuters
If you want to get rich off the AI boom, right now, just buy NVDA. All roads lead to their GPUs.
General Market Commentary
Markets closed mixed for the week with the S&P500 and Nasdaq closing higher while the Dow closed lower. The markets are truly a tale of two cities here as technology is leading the market higher and it’s all being propped up by one stock: NVDA.
NVDA is up over 174% for the year. It’s as if the rest of the stock market doesn’t exist. It’s like there’s not a market of stocks but an NVDA market.
I wrote about the Magnificent 7 Stocks and their pending crash earlier this year but predicting when that will happen is always a folly. The market could keep climbing until one day it doesn’t. What I do know is there’s a frenzy in the market that’s frightening. There’s so much froth in the market right now that when the bubble bursts, it’s going to be very violent.
Gold and Silver Price Forecasts 1 Week Ahead
Gold and Silver had another volatile week but closed higher from the week before. Forecasts for the metals is mixed for the next week with forecasts for a month ahead looking flat to lower.
There is some chatter in the markets that inflation might be coming to heel, which may take the momentum out of Gold and Silver but any potential interest rate cuts will only make these metals go higher.
What are the price forecasts for gold and silver next week? Free members get to read what my forecast model has in store below the fold here.
Silver Price Forecast
Silver closed at $29.40 this week from $29.33 last week, a rise of +0.24%.
Last week’s price prediction for a higher Silver close was correct and the mean silver price forecast for next week is $29.38, slightly lower than this week’s close. We are forecasting a possible swing high price of $31.77 and a swing low of $26.99 for next week.
Gold Prices Forecast
Gold closed up to $2,331.39 from $2,305.20 last week, a rise of +1.14% Last week’s price prediction for a higher Gold close was correct and the mean forecast for the Gold prices next week is considerably lower to $2,274.18. A swing high price of $2,394.02 and a low of $2,160.74 is forecasted.
Altair Engineering - an Interesting Stock
I recently put Altair Engineering (ALTR) on my radar because it’s making all-time highs. Altair Engineering is a company that does this:
Altair Engineering Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation and design, high-performance computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Software and Client Engineering Services.
In other words a software company with an Engineering bent for discrete problems. They snapped up RapidMiner a few years back to give them access to machine learning. I think it was a smart move but I was surprised to see how low the sale price was. I was expecting more than $100 million.
Regardless of the price, I think it was a smart move by Altair and I’ve been keeping a lazy eye on their share price since September 2022. Lo and behold, it started making a new all-time high (ATH) and that caught my attention.
It tends to keep pace with technology indices and is slightly exceeding the relative performance of the QQQs, which is a nice thing. It’s up over 23% for the year, which is nothing to sneeze at. Granted it’s not a high-flying NVIDIA but it appears to be a solid company.
What this tells me is that pure AI companies are likely not to make it, they will be acquired. The C3.AI’s of the world are going to have a hard time, whereas existing development and/or engineering companies might do better in the long run if they acquire an AI company and bring that knowledge in-house.
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