Apple’s iPhone Retina display may soon become obsolete. Apple’s AAPL iPhone 5S Retina resolution is 1136 x 640. Next year, competitors will have resolution of 3840 x 2160. The obsolescence is going to come far sooner than I had even recently expected based on information from Samsung’s Analyst Day. The new trouble for
This bull market is rewarding tech stocks in high-growth areas such as mobile, storage, big data and social media. In my back testing, technology companies in high-growth areas that beat consensus estimates of analysts for earnings significantly outperform the market. Here are three technology companies that reported earnings Thursday
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. OPK shares were acquired when PBTH was bought out by OPK. Cost basis is $5.47 per share. OPK is trading around $10 as of this writing. Consider taking profits and exiting the position. The Smart Money is beginning to take profits in this stock.
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Gear smartwatch with great fanfare in Berlin, Germany, on September 4, 2013,. It was Samsung’s opportunity to prove once and for all that it is not simply a copycat of Apple. Initial expectations were high. As critics got hold of the smartwatch, they almost universally panned it. The
Please click here to enlarge the chart. After the Communist Party’s Central Committee meeting ended, China has issued a 20,000-word document discussing reforms. The document contains 60 items, and plans for results to be achieved by 2020. But what do they mean for investors? And how was the news
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider reducing position in KBH by a 10% tranche. The trigger is that FOMC minutes show confusion at the Fed. This confusion is causing interest rates to rise and this position is interest rate sensitive.
Shares of GT Advanced Technologies GTAT are up 257% in the past six months, and they have jumped 30% in the past two weeks since Apple AAPL announced that it was Apple is advancing $578 million to GT, and GT will employ over 700 people at Apple’s Arizona facility to manufacture sapphire. On the surface, the
Apple loves sapphire. The iPhone 5S has a sapphire cover over the fingerprint reader and also over the camera. Recently, Apple announced a multi-year agreement with GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) to produce sapphire on a large scale at an Apple facility in Arizona. Under the agreement, Apple is advancing $578 million to
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) NIKKEI CROSSES 15,000 November 15, 2013 Overnight Nikkei crossed 15,000, its highest level since May. China plans to relax its one baby policy and announced other reforms.
Mom and pop investors love to read about the stocks that billionaires have been buying or selling. The media is happy to oblige. After all, what is good for the likes of Warren Buffet and Carl Icahn has to be good for mom and pop, right? Wrong! Let me explain why it