The Federal Reserve provides a gold mine of both medium-term investment opportunities and short-term trading opportunities. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds eight regularly scheduled meetings every year. One of those is being held this week, with a rate decision set to be announced at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on
(GOOG) was scheduled to release earnings after the market close. Inadvertently, earnings were released at 12:39 PM by its agent RR Donnelley (RRD). Google stock fell about 9% before it was halted. Both revenues and earnings were below consensus. To make matters worse, whisper numbers were higher than consensus. In
Cloud computing is hot. Even lay consumers who hadn’t heard of it only a year ago, not only know about cloud, but now they use it every day. If you are an Apple AAPL iPhone user, you are probably using iCloud. If you are a Google GOOG Android user and using
AAPL is a symbol of American innovation, but it has created more jobs in China than in America. “IPad, the Macs, the iPhones, they are all manufactured in China,” Candy Crowley asked in the presidential debate Tuesday night. “One of the major reasons is labor is so much cheaper. How
FreedomPop is a new start-up that plans to challenge AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) by providing free mobile data–500 MB per month. Both AT&T and Verizon have huge margins on mobile data because of the lack of competition. AT&T and Verizon use these big margins to subsidize Apple‘s iPhone, Google‘s Android and other devices. The big carriers provide
The Apple (AAPL) stock chart has traced the dreaded head-and-shoulders pattern. This is a well-known and well-followed reversal pattern in traditional technical analysis. As shown on the chart, the pattern consists of a left shoulder, a head, and a right shoulder. In Apple, the left shoulder was formed when the price pulled
I receive a large number of emails, many of which are showing that some Apple AAPL investors are becoming anxious. Who can blame them? The stock market continues to go up, but Apple stock continues to underperform. The price action in Apple yesterday was especially negative. Relax, all is well! As
Talking heads are tripping over each other to echo negative sentiment about Tim Cook. They are even throwing around wild numbers such as $30 billion loss because of Apple (AAPL) Maps without any solid foundation. I am a late comer to the world of media. Even though I write extensively about technology, business,
When reports first surfaced of problems with Apple Maps, Apple bulls were sure and loud that it was only a small problem and would be fixed soon. By not issuing any real statement, Apple gave the impression that the problem was indeed going to be short-lived. Finally there is a real statement
iPhone 5 has been the biggest launch of a consumer product ever. Apple (AAPL) stock has been a monster. On the other hand, its main competitor Google (GOOG) until recently languished. Going into iPhone 5 launch, nobody could have predicted that Google would defeat Apple where it counts. From an investment perspective, what counts