Second-quarter $S&P 500(.SPX)$ earnings appear spectacular: aggregate profit increased roughly 52% from a year earlier. A large share of that growth, however, came from unrealised gains on stakes in private artificial-intelligence companies. The underlying earnings expansion remains strong, but investors should distinguish operating performance from gains that can reverse without a dollar of cash entering the business. The clearest example is $Amazon.com(AMZN)$. It reported on July 30 for the quarter ended June 30 that net income rose to $62.6 billion from $18.2 billion. Yet $53.4 billion of quarterly non-operating pretax income came primarily from investments in Anthropic. Amazon’s operating income s
🎁 S&P 500 hits a new high: the rising wave is not finished and the callback is set?
On August 13, the S&P 500 closed at 7,798.99, a new all-time closing high. Recently, U.S. stocks have continued to strengthen, AI and technology stocks have performed brightly, and inflation data has cooled down, which has also eased the market's worries about further rate hike of the Fed. But here's the problem — When the index keeps hitting new highs, are there more opportunities now, or are risks accumulating?
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