On Thursday, October 28, 2021, during the Facebook Connect, augmented and virtual reality conference ( AR/VR conference), Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company has changed the name to Meta. The name change to Meta, from the the science fiction term "metaverse"", highlights the company’s focus on working and playing in a virtual world.

Today,  on Monday, October 18 , 2021 starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time,  Apple, Inc ( AAPL )  held "Unleashed" virtual  event.   Apple, Inc ( AAPL ) held  the first Fall event  on  September 14, 2021. The products unveiled  then were  iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and iPad.   Today, the focus was on new redesigned MacBook Pro and M1X chips and third generation AirPods, .

Meanwhile  Apple stock price has been on a rollercoaster with seesaw movements highlighting the complex dynamics ahead, especially during the usually challenging September  and October months.

Apple, Inc ( AAPL ) held  the first Fall event  on  September 14, 2021. The products unveiled were  iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and iPad.  Today, October 12, 2021, Apple announced an event, "Unleashed", to be held virtually on Monday, October 18, 2021 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Meanwhile  Apple stock price has been on a rollercoaster with seesaw movements highlighting the complex dynamics ahead, especially during the usually challenging September and October months.

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Apple launched  the 2021 annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event on June 7, 2021 at 10:00 AM PCT. The event will last from June 7–11 and be the first completely WWDC virtual.  As mentionned in AroniSmart's previous predictions(Apple's WWDC 2021: Expectations of New Macbook Pro, iOS15, MacOS 12, and More) ,  the event is focusing on the future versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The firs major announcement was about the new macOS 12, known as MacOS Monterey, which is replacing macOS BigSur and iOS15.

As the end of Year 2021 approaches, the stock market has continued to reach new record highs and to experience new dynamics, on top of the volatility that started in early May 2021. The latest major dynamics are driven by the improving job market, microchips shortages, global supply chain bottlenecks, Electric Vehicles (EV), cyptocurrency, the growing inflation, Chinese government actions on Tech and e-commerce companies,  retail and tech companies performance, and the overall economic policies, including the US infrastructure bill.

On November 17, 2021, the key stock market indices remain close to record performances. YTD, the stock indices have performed as follows:  Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 22.05%, Nasdaq: 34.91 %, S&P 500: 31.42%, and Russel 2000: 22.15%). AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Big Data ,Bayesian Network Analysis, Neural Network Analysis, Text Analytics, and Sentiment and Valence Analysis capabilities of the new improved  AroniSmartInvest™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™,   looked at the stock performance, market sentiment index and events driving the stock market as Novembber 17,  2021  and the end of the year approaches ( For More on AroniSoft LLC and AroniSmart products click here).  Key stocks driving the market in mid-November 2021 were identified.

Fall 2021 started with a rebound amid seesaw dynamics in the US Stock Markets. As expected, since late September 2021, the stock market momentum that started in early May 2021  slowed down and has been impacted by increasing volatility and andom news and events. These dynamics compounded with the factors that have affected the overal market since early 2021, such as COVID-19 pandemic new waves,  the job market, the growing inflation, Chinese government actions on Tech and e-commerce companies, and the overall economic policies.  The volatility has led to significant selloffs and some buys across sectors and industries.  

AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Science, Bayesian Network Analysis, Neural Network Analysis, Text Analytics, and Sentiment and Valence Analysis capabilities of the new improved  AroniSmartInvest™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™,   looked at the stock performance, market sentiment index and events driving the stock market as of October 6, 2021 ( For More on AroniSoft LLC and AroniSmart products click here).  The key stocks driving the market at the in the fist week of October 2021 were identified.

Fall 2021 started with a rebound amid seesaw dynamics in the US Stock Markets. As expected, as Fall approached, the stock market momentum that started in early May 2021 had been slowing down, with the increasing volatility and major impact of unexpected news. The factors that  have affected the overal market since early 2021, such as COVID-19 pandemic new waves,  the job market, the growing inflation, Chinese government actions on Tech and e-commerce companies, and the overall economic policies appear to have finally caught up with the market. These factors appeared to be the driver of the observed sell-offs. Then two major events happened:  unexpected negative news on China Evergrande Group and  encouraging news from the US FedReserve meeting.  

AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Science, Bayesian Network Analysis, Neural Network Analysis, Text Analytics, and Sentiment and Valence Analysis capabilities of the new improved  AroniSmartInvest™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™,   looked at the stock performance, market sentiment index and events driving the stock market as of September 23, 2021 ( For More on AroniSoft LLC and AroniSmart products click here).  The key stocks driving the market at the end of Summer 2021 were identified.

Summer 2021 is ending. As expected,  the stock market momentum  that started in  early May 2021 appears to finally be slowing down, as the volatility continues to increase. The factors that have affected the overall market since early 2021, such as COVID-19 pandemic new waves,  the job market, the growing inflation, Chinese government actions on Tech and e-commerce companies,  and the overall economic policies appear to have finally caught up with the market. This may be the driver of the observed sell-offs.

AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Science, Bayesian Network Analysis, Neural Network Analysis, Text Analytics, and Sentiment and Valence Analysis capabilities of the new improved  AroniSmartInvest™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™,   looked at the stock performance, market sentiment index and events driving the stock market as of September 17, 2021 ( For More on AroniSoft LLC and AroniSmart products click here).  The key stocks driving the market at the end of Summer 2021 were identified.

Apple, Inc ( AAPL ) held, as planned,   the first Fall event today on  September 14, 2021. The event, known as California Streaming, took  an hour and twenty minutes.  Most of  products that were expected to be unveiled, were announced. The most important  product unveiled matched the expectations:  iPhone 13.  Other products, as highlighted in earlier AroniSmart reports included Apple Watch Series 7 and  iPad.  Meanwhile  just before the event  started, Apple stock rose to $151.07, then lost its fuel closing at $148.12.  In fact, as the day of the event  was approaching, Apple stock price had started to fall, significantly, closing at $148.97 on September 10, 2021. The seesaw movement highglights the complex dynamics ahead, especially during the usually challenging September month.

Apple, Inc ( AAPL )  will hold  the first Fall event on  September 14, 2021, starting at 10:00 AM PDT. Many products are expected to be unveiled. One of the most important is iPhone 13.  Others include Apple Watch Series 7 and AirPods 3. Meanwhile after the event was confirmed , Apple stock has reached new records highs with the day range of $154.39 - $157.26, closing at $156.69, reinforcing the new trends uncovered in AroniSmart Analyses. Then, as the day of the event approaches, Apple stock price has started to fall, significantly, closing at $148.97 on September 10, 2021.

After a fueled momentum since Q4 2020, the stock market has experienced seesaw dynamics since late Q3 2021. The latest Q3 2021 stock market pefomance figures reminded of the increasing market volatility and other dynamics in late Q1 and early Q2, 2021. Major questions coming from AroniSmartIntelligence™ users have recently focused on how to use AroniSmartIntelligence capabilities to analyse the connection among the key Stock market indices, especially NASDAQ vs  Dow Jones(DJI), S&P 500, and Russell 2000.   AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Neural Network Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ ,  has analyzed the trends of  NASDAQ vs  the  other stock indices (DJI, S&P 500, Russell 2000)  between Q4 2020 and  Q4 2021 and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   The insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website. For related analyses of Stock Markets using Time Series, Dominance Analysis, and Neural Network capabilities see here AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Apple (AAPL) Stock Performance and Momentum Analysis with Support Vector Machine and Dominance Analysis in Q3 2021) ( For More on AroniSoft LLC and AroniSmart products click here).  

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On May 19, 2021, the stock market sentiment had started to head towards negativity, after a long period of positivity. Almost a month later, the sentiment  continues to lean towards negativity. As of the closing hour of  June 11, 2021 the dynamics of the stock market remain complex and the sentiment neutral or negative.

Machine Learning Models  are gradually and fastly improving and becoming the center of advanced analytics, business intelligence, decision making, management science, data science,  and other areas in which sound informed decisions are needed.  Yet, the area continues to be  both exciting and intriguing, while remaining the needed support  to generate valuable analytical insights to support decision making and advanced research.  Given this increasing  importance of this foundation in the advanced analytics, machine learning and data science, AroniSmartIntelligence ™, one of the most advanced analytics tools with Big Data, Statistics, Econometrics, Machine Leaning, Text and Sentiment analysis, Support Vector Machine capabilities has  improved the key modules including  Neural Networks, Econometrics, Time Series, Bayesian Models,  Support Vector Machine,  Big Data Analytics,  and Text Analytics. The improvement will be coming in the new version AroniSmart 12.x, soon available of Apple's App Store®.  

On May 19, 2021, the stock market sentiment has started to head towards negativity, after a long period of positivity. In the analysis conducted  by AroniSmart™ team on April 30, 2021, investors appeared to have started finding direction and answers on one of the key questions the market actors were facing: what is coming next?  Although the answer to the question remained elusive, there appeared to be a growing consensus on where the market was  heading, following the up and down movements, around an overall upward trend,  observed since the beginning of the year. While the overall upward trend was  observed since the beginning of the year,  by late-April the trend has shifted downward.  As of the closing hour of  May 19, 2021 the dynamics of the stock market were different.

Artificial Neural Networks modelling has become an important area of advanced analytics and machine learning. The area is both exciting and intriguing, helping to generate valuable analytical insights to support decision making and advanced research.  Given the importance of this foundation in the advanced analytics, machine learning and data science, AroniSmartIntelligence ™, one of the most advanced analytics tools with Big Data, Statistics, Econometrics, Machine Leaning, Text and Sentiment analysis, Support Vector Machine capabilities has implemented a module on Neural Network, starting with Multi-Layer Perceptron Models.