Julia Daly ’24 and Risk Analyst Shaan Shuster ’23 presented this week’s market update. They started things off with some information on Jerome Powell and the Fed’s recent activity. Powell recently stated that the Fed has no plan to raise…
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General Body Meeting 2/19: Club Introduction, Market Update, and Oil Market Recap
Welcome back! To kick off the new semester, Co-Presidents Alec Cwienkala ’21 and Noah Grossman ’21 gave a brief overview of the club and introduced the Executive Board. Next, Vice President Connor Thatcher ’21 provided an introduction to equity markets…
Investment Club Year End Report – By Energy Analyst Tate Harobin ’22
We are excited to report that our club’s portfolio has returned 16.3% YTD to bring our total AUM to approximately $956,000. Looking back to the start of 2020, Jack Evans ‘22 and Ian Lee ‘22 successfully pitched Lululemon(LULU) which has…
General Body Meeting 11/20: TMT Sector Update, Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines, and Winter Stock Market Game
TMT Analyst Nick Sant Foster ’22 broke down the recent performance of our technology, media, and telecom holdings. The winners included; PayPal, Apple, Microsoft, and the gaming giant Activision Blizzard. PayPal is up roughly 72% on the year after they…
General Body Meeting 11/13: Industrials/Healthcare Sector Updates and Domino’s Pizza Pitch
Industrials Analyst Ian Lee’22 provided the club with an update on our current industrials holdings. Our industrials positions increased in value from $166,385 to $178,404 since Ian’s last sector update. These positions have also had a return of 7.22% in…
General Body Meeting 10/23: Bloomberg Info Session, Market Update, Q3 Earnings, and Google Antitrust Lawsuit
Neloy Kundu ’23 updated the club on the markets’ performance this week. The S&P 500, the Dow, and the Nasdaq all finished in the red this week. At the time of the meeting the indices were at S&P = 3,457.52,…
General Body Meeting 10/16: Market Update, Bank and Airline Earnings, Energy Sector Update, and SolarEdge Pitch
Sam Kirby ’22 kicked off our General Body Meeting by providing an overview of the of S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq’s performance for the week. S&P finished the week down 0.50% and closed at 3,483.81. The Dow also finished slightly…
General Body Meeting 10/9: Trump Tweets, Stimulus Talks, Big Tech Break Up?, and How to Successfully Network
This past week was packed with headlines as the President and politicians in Washington played a big role in the market’s performance. Risk Analyst Shaan Shuster ’23 gave an update on how President Trump’s tweets and congress’s ongoing stimulus negations…
General Body Meeting 9/25: Tesla Battery Day, Election Volatility, Bubbles and Manias
Mikias Stewart ’23 presented a Market Update in the form of a Kahoot quiz. The Club was able to test their knowledge of Tesla Battery Day, the upcoming election, and the market’s recent losing streak. Energy Analyst Tate Harobin…
General Body Meeting 9/18: Snowflake IPO, Big M&A News, and a Fixed Income/Debt Report
Another busy week for markets and for the Lafayette College Investment Club. Co-President Noah Grossman ’21 gave an overview of the major indices and their performance this week. The Nasdaq, S&P, and Dow all experienced gains on Monday and Tuesday,…