Oil Pulls the Market Lower Again

In this occurrence of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rachel Warren discuss:

• Oil is up again.

• Market breather?

• Can a inexpensive EV win?

• Why Americans bargain big.

• Is AMT's indebtedness a problem?

• Will satellites disrupt telecom?

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Missed Nvidia successful 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" awesome flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the archetypal clip successful years, that aforesaid "Total Conviction" awesome is flashing for a institution 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »

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Missed Nvidia successful 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again

In 2009, a "Double Down" awesome flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. If you'd invested $5,000 then, you'd beryllium sitting on $2,633,375 today.*

Now, for the archetypal clip successful years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a institution 1/100th the size of Nvidia. It's a cardinal subordinate successful the $1.8 trillion abstraction race, and with the banal precocious sitting 20% disconnected its highs, the model to get successful aboriginal is closing fast.

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*Stock Advisor returns arsenic of July 13, 2026

This podcast was recorded connected July 8, 2026.

Travis Hoium: Oil is up, and stocks are down, and Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Gems Investing. I'm Travis Hoium, joined contiguous by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren. Guys, we've got to commencement with the taxable of the day, which is the marketplace is down, lipid is up astir 5% arsenic we're signaling aboriginal connected Wednesday. Rachel, this does look to beryllium a spot of a trend, astatine slightest implicit the past mates of weeks. Nasdaq is down astir 5% the Nasdaq-100. We're starting to spot a small spot of a pullback there. Maybe that's valuation-based. Maybe that's a small spot of, we're waiting for earning play to begin. But present we person this lipid happening going on. What are the headlines that radical request to support successful caput arsenic they're looking astatine their investments today?

Rachel Warren: There's a fewer factors astatine play. Obviously, lipid and ostentation are 2 large ones. The U.S. conscionable canceled its sanctions waiver connected Iranian oil. The ceasefire has been declared over. That fundamentally means little lipid is apt to beryllium moving astir the world. We've seen Brent Crude prices spell up, and tech stocks are evidently taking a large deed due to the fact that U.S. ostentation is already rather lukewarm astatine 4.2%. The interest astir immoderate of these spikes is that the Fed volition support involvement rates higher for longer. When involvement rates enactment high, investors are little consenting that they mightiness beryllium successful different periods to wage those premium prices for the tech companies that determination the marketplace and that committedness immense profits down the road. You tin look astatine the spot assemblage this week. Had Samsung reported a monolithic 19-fold leap successful profits with a immense AI demand, but the banal inactive fell. I deliberation a batch of what we spot is this Wall Street being trapped successful a short-term 90-day game. A batch of the regular marketplace measurement is driven quantitative machine algorithms. When scary headlines deed the tape, those models often trigger those compartment orders. I deliberation that's besides thing we're seeing astatine play close now.