Meltdown and Spectre are the names given to two computer processor security flaws. The names sound gloomy and haunting. Stories published since Wednesday are saying processors dating back 10 years may have those flaws. Shares of Intel INTC, the subject of the flaws, have been battered, while main rival AMD
The January Effect tends to offer an opportunity to potentially make about 30% in three months — equivalent to a 120% annualized return. It is a phenomenon that makes prices of certain stocks rise more in January than the market averages. Over the past 30 years, we have made money
Tax reform is causing cross-currents in the stock market. There are five likely moves ahead that are of special note. The best way to know if buyers or sellers are winning as a result of those five moves is to look at money flows. So let’s look at money flows
Apple is making a big move into lasers. The features you have come to love, such as Face ID, portrait mode and Animoji, all depend on lasers. Here’s how you, too, can join Apple in generating profits from lasers. Apple AAPL, -0.01% is making an investment in Finisar FNSR. Let’s
Some investors are excited about bitcoin futures, and others think bitcoin itself is a fraud. Most investors ought to focus on, for example, 11 bitcoin-related stocks due to much lower risk. Even if you are not a bitcoin BTCUSD, enthusiast and are happy limiting yourself to stocks and ETFs, you
Prudence requires that stock market bulls take protective measures as Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates President Trump’s financial dealings, crossing a “red line” the president said he wouldn’t allow. Politics has the power to throttle stocks. On Dec. 1, when it was announced that former national security adviser Michael Flynn
U.S. stocks are sky high in this bull market, but they could fade fast. President Trump, in a remark over the weekend, was reported to have said: “One great gentleman came up and he said, ‘Sir, I want to thank you.’ I said, ‘What did I do for you?’ He
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping 24,000 in a big rally this year, Dow 30,000 is now on the horizon. That was not always the case. In February 2017, when the Dow DJIA, was much lower, I laid out a fundamental case for the benchmark reaching 30,000. I was scorned,
The U.S. is in a raging bull market in stocks. Some gurus continue to revise their upward targets for stock prices. But many keep warning of a crash. What is the average investor to think — and how to act? And how does he or she gain an edge? The
From the large number of emails I receive, anecdotal evidence is that many money managers and private investors have become drastically overweighted in FAANG stocks. FAANG stocks are Facebook FB, Apple AAPL, Amazon AMZN, Netflix NFLX, and Google GOOG, GOOGL. Such over-concentration has been working, but there is nothing constant