Wal-Mart Walking in Amazon Footsteps by Acquiring Jet.Com?

Jet.com, an online retailer startup has agreed to be bought by the retailer giant Wal-Mart in a deal valued at $3.3 billion.  Wal-Mart had been trying to break into e-commerce, from its traditional brick-and-mortar retail business for more than a decade. Since 2000, Wal-Mart has been trying to build an on-line presence, with Walmart.com,  and hired online executives, such Neil Ashe. It built its own e-commerce to compete against the leaders, especially Amazon. Amazon's growing

Tim Cook sits with CNBC Mad Money Jim Cramer

Tim Cook sits with CNBC Mad Money Jim Cramer and shares his thoughts in this video:

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks about the successes and failures of Amazon in its early years. He admits making billions of dollars in failures. But is worth it, hence, according to him, these led to even more billions of successes. Ranked top CEO in 2014, he is now ranked 87th.

Google becomes Alphabet

Google has decided to reorganize itself into a holding under the name of Alphabet. Google co-founder, Larry Page has announced the  change in Google corporate structure to become a  holding company with a disparate collection of businesses.

The new company, Alphabet, will be run by Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Based on Larry Page's announcement, it appears the new structure may look like this:

US-Africa Summit Washington December 14, 2022

African presidents and dictators have started to leave Washington, DC  after  attending the US - Africa Summit convened by US President Joe Biden.  50 invitees attended, including 49 African top leaders and the leader of African Union. As predicted, the summit focused on the partnership of the US with Africa, security, democracy in Africa, and the rising influence of other world powers, especially China, in Africa. Meanwhile, aside the event, comments by Rwanda's Paul Kagame warning  the US  leaders against  bullying him on the case of Paul Rusesabagina have raised other African leaders' eyebrows.

AroniSmart Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment and Dominance Analysis

Stocks across  all sectors, especially in Tech, Healthcare, Financial Services,  Energy,  and Consumer  have been delivering differential returns over the last years including  in 2021, 2022, and Q1- early Q4 2024. Most stocks reached  heights in December 2021.  Then, in 2022 and up to mid-Q1 2023, the  stock growth became broadly negative across most sectors, except energy. The major stock market indices were also impacted.  Since then, many stocks across all sectors, along with the key  market indices have been on the rise, on a path to reaching the 2021 levels.  In a sample of key stocks to watch, as identified by AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Econometrics,  and NLP capabilities AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™, most stocks have shown resilience and sometimes outperforming most of the other  stocks and the  key stock market indices.  As the end of Q4 2023 is reached , almost all the stocks, along with the key indices have reached  highs, even aiming at  their record highs.

 AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends  of the stock prices of 21  selected  companies  between Q4 2021 and  Q4 2023 and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   This is the Part 2 of the analysis. The findings captured in Part 1 may be seen here: AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment Analysis, Support Vector Machine and Dominance Analysis in Q4 2023 - Part 1.

Part 2 insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website).