{"id":63744,"date":"2025-01-17T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=63744"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:49:40","slug":"why-did-stocks-go-down-yesterday-and-go-up-today-nobody-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=63744","title":{"rendered":"Why did stocks go down yesterday and go up today? Nobody knows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watch this. Then you&#8217;ll know.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Washington&#039;s Dream - SNL\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JYqfVE-fykk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Apple stock is falling<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s the last month compared to the Dow and The S&amp;P 500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apple has done miserably. It&#8217;s the bottom blue line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/apple-one-month.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sales in China are dropping.\u00a0 Three analysts have a &#8220;sell&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apple doesn&#8217;t turn me on any more:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ I bought the new series 10 Apple Watch and sent it back. It had no blood oxygen monitor. Patent problems. My older series 9 Apple Watch has the blood oxygen monitor and works fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ I bought the new hearing aid AirPods and sent them back. Their life as hearing aids is too short. You need to wear hearing aids for far longer than a podcast or a phone call. Hearing aids are for a full day. I still love my $200 EarCentrics, which are currently on sale for\u00a0 a bargain $169.\u00a0 Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/EarCentric-Rechargeable-Ear-amplification-Cancellation\/dp\/B09K1RKQS6\/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3JGW74V48VJVS&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9Ur2TcGfEGMwZoi5q75mUpA2Nai8EUpmqmolrRphpGjFWXK9c0AOsvSX2drVsbEof-42T-FKg5yuvMADWMPWoEwvT2HQofqxhaU9ZYNYMkSJqqeBAttxYh3teceWWhDw3UPiyCa41ojpKnXiYppDfsy6fSe68Mw5cfQrlyc5tfzcvolLeQ5taWZobBnHcgWPYhcHq_N0lNEaJ8KXIUibzePJemrrb5hwzoWpF-DtsYQ.YKTISsdAD0X5yhdeoqWKmA_UaaF1rMbNN1e6Erxw-Uo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=earcentric+hearing+aids&amp;qid=1737141871&amp;sprefix=earcentric+hearing%2Caps%2C152&amp;sr=8-1-spons&amp;sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&amp;psc=1\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ I just bought the iPhone 16 Pro. I have kept it. But I can&#8217;t find any benefits with it. I can find a lot of stuff to hate. It&#8217;s too easy to turn off the ringer. I can&#8217;t figure Apple Intelligence. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn&#8217;t. Nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are two Apple Intelligence screens I found on my new iPhone 16 Pro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/apple-intelligence-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"526\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Apple-Intelligence-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning, I got a note: &#8220;Apple has paused AI-powered notification summaries for news apps in the iOS 18 beta, following complaints and reports of inaccuracies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re stupid enough to upgrade to the iPhone 16, make sure you have the <strong>latest <\/strong>IOS on your old phone. I wasted six hours before, in desperation, I called Apple Support and they told me to upgrade to the new IOS. As though I should have known!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The new iPhone 16, which I had in my hot little hand, came with no instructions for moving from my old iPhone to my new iPhone 16. Wasted six hours. Thank you Apple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m told the new iPhone 16 Pro has a better camera, and maybe a longer battery life. I was perfectly happy with my old iPhone 13 Pro Max. I bought the new phone thinking new was better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was wrong!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With Apple, new isn&#8217;t better. In fact, it can be worse &#8212; viz, the new Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is one &#8212; and only one reason to buy an Apple Watch &#8212; if you fall, it will ring your children and 911. Get the Series 9. It&#8217;s cheaper. Get it for your grandparents and your parents. Anyone between 60 and death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m trimming some of my Apple stock, though it&#8217;s up today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I almost got hit by a clever gift card scam\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The voice mail&#8217;s transcript read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">&#8220;Hi, this is Comcast Xfinity. This is your final notice regarding your 50% discount offer on your monthly bill which expires today to prevent your rate from increasing. Call back now on the number on your caller ID.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is total BS nonsense. But I fell for it and called them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To get the 50% monthly discount I had to go to Target (the department store) and buy $800 of Target gift cards and call those gift card numbers into a &#8220;special&#8221; phone number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The scam was well done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There were gaping holes in the story. For one, he didn&#8217;t know my Xfinity account number or how much I was paying a month, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was persuasive. he said Target was running a promotion with Xfinity, an Internet provider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Scams are getting better and better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are the &#8220;unpaid&#8221; bills from PayPal, Norton, Best Buy and zillions of others. They flow into my email inbox every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m guessing the scams work. Otherwise, why keep doing them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to solve Palestine &#8212; give them Greenland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turn the volume on the button is in the bottom right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is Instagram video is priceless. Click <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DElOyHxpgZ3\/?igsh=MW5nZXA0YmdjNGd6bg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I&#8217;m looking at BDCs to invest in<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Business Development Companies lend money to businesses. Why they exist when we have banks, nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But there&#8217;s a helluva lot of them. I mean a helluva lot. (I didn&#8217;t know how many. Nobody knows.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I now own three: ARCC (yield 8.35%), GBDC (11.6%) and BIZD (an etf with a yield of 10.7%). You can find more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdcinvestor.com\/screens\/largest-bdcs-by-size\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have no idea how safe these things are. I&#8217;m in research mode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to protect your home against fire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ I now have now six fire extinguishers. When your linen closet catches on fire &#8212; as mine did &#8212; these things are useful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ I&#8217;ve cleared all the brush away from outside and around my house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ My friend bought a Honda generator, a thing called a trash pump and 200 feet of two inch hose. He&#8217;ll wet his house down long before the fire department gets there. He&#8217;ll use the water in his pool. Google &#8220;trash pump.&#8221; There are millions of them. Here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trash-pump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/NorthStar-High-Pressure-Water-Pump-Engine\/dp\/B00381T8J2?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&amp;ref_=fplfs&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=AF8EGQ3KRZQB6&amp;gQT=1#customerReviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ This Spring I&#8217;m digging a big hole at the bottom of my hill in front of my house and buying water to fill it. We are in Columbia County, New York State. That&#8217;s a long way from California. Last summer was had a bush fire fewer than two miles from our house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some homes are insured for $x, which is much less than replacement.<\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?page_id=2\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.50\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other homes are insured for replacement cost. It all depends on your insurance company. Check.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This is wonderfully tasteless.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che Discreetly Racist Joke Swaps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-ivYJJVW9s?feature=oembed\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Monday is Trump&#8217;s inauguration. My friends are freaking out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Personally, I accept the reality that things will be different, and perhaps a little more business friendly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Biden just limited Nvidia chip sales to Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Israel?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Six planets will align on January 21, the day after the Inauguration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/six-planets-800x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/six-planets-800x394.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/six-planets-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/six-planets.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can read about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/see-6-planets-align-on-january-21-planetary-alignment-mars-venus-uranus-neptune-saturn-jupiter\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=pushly&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_social=owned&amp;utm_brand=wired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here. <\/strong><\/a>Or listen to Trump&#8217;s Inauguration speech in which he will take credit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Got to get back to hitting backhands down the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you soon &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this. Then you&#8217;ll know. Apple stock is falling Here&#8217;s the last month compared to the Dow and The S&amp;P 500. Apple has done miserably. It&#8217;s the bottom blue line. Sales in China are dropping.\u00a0 Three analysts have a &#8220;sell&#8221; on it. Apple doesn&#8217;t turn me on any more: + I bought the new series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63744"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63794,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63744\/revisions\/63794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}