A stock can look very different six months after purchase, especially when its price has fallen way below the original entry point.
Most investors hold on, waiting for the price to recover rather than locking in a loss. A pattern one of the most successful investors alive says causes lasting financial damage.
In his 2024 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Warren Buffett identified a behavioral pattern he called "the cardinal sin" of managing a business.
His late partner, Charlie Munger, had a blunter label for the habit of sitting on known problems and hoping they disappear on their own: "thumb-sucking."
Buffett's candor in the 2024 Berkshire Hathaway annual letter went beyond a single line about thumb-sucking.

#sucking

Chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM) will report its third quarter earnings on Wednesday, giving investors a closer look at the impact the global memory shortage is having on smartphone sales and the status of the company's upcoming data center segment.
Qualcomm is working to diversify its business to reduce its dependence on its handset business, which has slowed over the years, as customers hold on to their phones for longer before upgrading.
And with smartphone makers increasing prices to offset the rising cost of memory and storage chips caused by the global AI build-out, the handset market is looking rough.
"The smartphone industry is not great," Bernstein ***** yst Stacy Rasgon told Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman on Wednesday.
"Memory prices are going up, and AI is sort of sucking up a lot of the supply. And so it's just not leaving a lot for the smartphone players. And we're seeing unit growth has gone negative," he added.

#smartphone #qualcomm

It's still hot outside, the kids are still out of school, and fall camp has yet to open. However now that we are in single-digit weeks until the college football season begins, it's about that time of year that the national press starts sucking up to Deion Sanders. Oh yeah. And time we start previewing Alabama Crimson Tide football. We begin with opponent previews.
Due to the buffoonery of the College Football Playoff Committee and the expansion to nine SEC game dockets, Alabama made a decision to cancel an intriguing series with West Virginia in favor of a higher calorie cupcake ECU. The Pirates had a fine season in 2025. However, a closer look shows problems in Greenville.
Coach: Blake Harrell (14–5, 10-3 AAC after a season and a half)
2025 record: 9-4 (6-2 in AAC, 4th in the conference, Military Bowl win over Pitt)
Looking back: Harrell became interim head coach after Mike Houston's firing following week 7 of the 2024 season and finished with a 5-1 record including a bowl win over big brother NC State. Last fall, he led the Pirates to a strong 9-4 season in the competitive AAC and added a second bowl win to his resume.

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Renowned investor Cathie Wood positioned Bitcoin as a "wealth insurance policy" on Saturday that AI-driven growth investments cannot provide.
In an X post, Wood argued that capital outflows from "less stable countries" will light a "fire" under Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
The Ark Invest founder said that while AI has initiated a "technology revolution," it cannot serve as the "insurance policy" for wealth protection that many investors are currently seeking.
Capital outflows from less stable countries around the world will light another fire under bitcoin and other digital ****** ets. AI has launched a technology revolution, deservedly sucking a lot of oxygen out of the investment world, but it cannot serve as the insurance policy… https://t.co/Xmtt1DnroX

ON Semiconductor (ON) cratered on June 26 after the company signed a definitive agreement to buy San Jose-headquartered edge-AI and connectivity specialist Synaptics (SYNA).
The announcement of this all-stock transaction shaved billions off ON's market cap and pushed it decisively below its 20-day and 50-day moving averages (MAs), indicating shifting momentum in favor of the bears.
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Oracle (ORCL) stock closed down 2.58% on June 26 following a New York Times report that OpenAI is considering postponing its blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) until 2027.
Investors are heavily penalizing ORCL primarily because of its deep infrastructural ties and over-concentration in the frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model developer.
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DraftKings (DKNG) shares are soaring on Friday after the company officially launched its highly anticipated prediction markets exchange (DKeX).
Adding to bullish momentum in DKNG today is a price target increase from Citizens to $36 a share, which signals potential upside of more than 45% from current levels.
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Robinhood (HOOD) shares are expensive relative to their fintech peers in 2026, but that premium is rather "warranted," says BTIG's senior ******* yst Andrew Harte.
At the time of writing, HOOD is going for a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of about 54x, versus a much more modest 29x on the likes of SoFi Technologies (SOFI).
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Stocks Settle Mixed on Apple Weakness and Chipmaker Strength

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed down -0.05%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.09%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -1.09%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -0.12%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -1.19%.
Stock indexes settled lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 falling to 2-week lows. The weakness in chipmakers weighed on the overall market Friday. South Korea's Kospi Index fell by more than -5% on Friday after Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix sold off, sparking a global decline in chipmakers. Stocks also came under pressure on Friday after a New York Times report said ChatGPT owner OpenAI may delay its initial public offering until 2027.
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With a market cap of $87.6 billion, 3M Company (MMM) is a global diversified technology and manufacturing company that develops products for industrial, healthcare, consumer, and safety applications. The Saint Paul, Minnesota-based company's portfolio includes adhesives, abrasives, filtration systems, electrical products, medical supplies, personal protective equipment, and automotive solutions, serving customers across more than 200 countries.
MMM is expected to release its Q2 2026 earnings soon. Ahead of the event, **** ysts expect the company's EPS to be $2.25 on a diluted basis, up 4.2% from $2.16 in the year-ago quarter. The company has impressively exceeded Wall Street's EPS estimates in each of its last four quarters.
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Valued at a market cap of $25.8 billion, W. R. Berkley Corporation (WRB) is a leading commercial property and casualty insurance holding company that provides insurance and reinsurance products to businesses and individuals worldwide. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based company's offerings include commercial auto, workers' compensation, professional liability, excess and surplus lines, healthcare, environmental, and specialty insurance, serving a broad range of industries.
The insurance company is expected to announce its fiscal Q1 earnings for 2026 after the market closes on Monday, July 20. As we approach the event, ****** ysts expect this insurance company to report a profit of $1.09 per share, up 3.8% from $1.05 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has topped Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in three of the last four quarters, while missing on another occasion.
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New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone has spent a surprising amount of time talking about a lollipop in the past 24 hours.
That would be the lollipop of Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. who was seen on camera sucking on the sweet during Monday's 5-3 loss against the Detroit Tigers.
Does that constitute a scandal? Probably not. However, Boone certainly didn't seem happy about it while speaking on "Talkin' Yanks" the next day. The manager revealed he spoke to Chisholm about the lollipop after the game and said it won't happen again:
"Oh yeah, that ***** me off. I didn't know about it until after the game. So he and I talked about that. That won't be going on."
He was then told this wasn't the first time Chisholm had taken the field with a lollipop, as he previously took an at-bat with one against the Boston Red Sox. At that point, Boone held off on further comment:

In this episode of the ETF Zoo, Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research at ETF.com and Sumit Roy, Senior ETF ******* yst at ETF.com, chat with Cinthia Murphy, Director of Research at TMX VettaFi, and Todd Sohn, Senior ETF & Technical Strategist, Strategas Securities. The crew this week discusses the shine wearing off bitcoin, the massive swell of tech investment and implications looking ahead, ******* eX IPO valuations, and more.
Prefer to watch this episode? You can find that here or on our YouTube channel. You can also find this conversation on and Apple Podcasts.
• Tech is dominating ETF flows in a way that's hard to ignore. Since the March 30 low, tech ETFs have pulled in $27 billion as of recording, while every other sector combined has seen net outflows. What’s more, semiconductors are now larger than the entire defensive sector, with tech making up nearly 40% of the S&P 500.
• Vanguard's VOO has officially crossed $1 trillion to overtake SPY as the largest S&P 500 ETF. The Zoo crew discussed the milestone, crediting structural advantages like dividend reinvestment and lower costs, for VOO’s consistent gains. It’s a clear signal that despite active innovation and investor interest, passive, low-cost investing will always win the day.
• Bitcoin is losing the attention war to AI, but it's not a traditional crypto winter. Without a major crisis like FTX to blame, the group largely agreed that AI is simply sucking the oxygen out of the room, leaving Bitcoin and Ethereum looking boring by comparison while niche tokens like Hyperliquid hit new highs.

Under glaring laboratory lights, a research **** istant extends his forearm and carefully inverts a mesh-topped container onto his skin to allow a wriggling mass of bed bugs to feed on his blood, all in the name of science.
Long-loathed as itchy household pests, the blood-sucking insects have revealed a darker, more intriguing potential as Malaysian scientists have discovered they can be turned into unlikely crime-busting allies.
A team from the Science University of Malaysia (USM) in northern Penang has found that tropical bed bugs can retain DNA from human prey for up to 45 days after snac

No wonder the Patriots started sucking. They have women in men's sports.