(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) GOLD JUMPS ON POOR DURABLE GOOD ORDERS October 25, 2013 This morning gold and silver were rapidly losing their gains, then came a poor
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. RBCN is a provider of sapphire crystals. A sapphire crystal covers the fingerprint reader in iPhone 5S. There is disappointment that Apple has not extended fingerprint readers to its iPad line. The new buy zone is $7.90 to $11.53. Because of
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. Consider adding a 10% tranche to GNRC in the zone of $51.90 to $52.73. After this fill 20% will be held.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. GNRC makes small generators. It is still riding the coat tails of last year’s super storm Sandy. In due course, this effect will wear off. Consider starting a 10% tranche in the zone of $49.92 to $50.85. The stock is at
Thursday after the close, Microsoft MSFT reported earnings. One conclusion that jumps out from the report and conference call is that Microsoft has overcome the so-called ‘death of the PC.’ Microsoft is generating about 70% of its profits from its commercial business, which is growing at about a 10% rate, yet Microsoft is
These gadgets–along with many others, including LED lighting–all need semiconductors. From a long-term perspective, the demand for semiconductors is continuing to grow as the devices become ubiquitous in anything that runs electric current. The problem with investing in makers of semiconductors is that the group had become overbought with the
Carl Icahn, perhaps the most successful investor of recent times, has sent out a new letter to Tim Cook. However, much of the information that is crucial for investors is either not in the letter or not clear in the letter, but came out in an excellent interview on CNBC. Here
In my 30 years in the markets, I have seen many investors who make tons of money trading pure momentum only to lose more than they made in the first place. The irony is that many such investors repeat this cycle again and again. The reason many investors go through
Earnings season is in full swing. In my backtesting, companies that report earnings above analysts’ consensus estimates tend to outperform the market. Here are three popular technology stocks that have reported blowout earnings so far this quarter. Only the data that is most important and has been historically reliable in the past is listed
Apple has scheduled a product-announcement event for tomorrow. My expectations are that the products announced will be mostly evolutionary, but there is a dark horse that can change the game for tablet computing. The dark horse is a 13-inch iPad that is a replacement for full-fledged laptops. If this dark