Tech stocks are on fire. As a result, it’s natural for investors who are underweight in tech to want to add to their tech stock holdings. Since late January’s convulsion in the stock market, flows to stocks have changed, particularly among tech stocks. Here is an oft-asked question: “Which stock
What the U.S. stock market does next may come down to one decision by President Trump. To understand this important decision, let’s first look at a chart, then the earnings backdrop and, finally, the decision. Chart Please click here for the annotated chart. The chart is of S&P 500 ETF
President Trump’s talk on tariffs has the potential to start a trade war. Certainly there will be lots of noise, as is usual with Trump, and in our analysis, the probability of a trade war with dire consequences is not high. But it is simply prudent to take protective steps.
More and more investors believe there is a free lunch. That is, you get something for nothing. In investing, people have been getting a free lunch: Stocks (and bonds) have been rising for years without a bad turnout. Will there ever be consequences of massive money printing by central banks,
Are you concerned about volatility in the stock market? With the bull market turning nine years old this spring, you can expect more. There is a sensible approach for these times. Every investor should consider it. To understand the approach, let us start with two charts. Two charts Please click
The stock market decline more than a week ago was kicked off by higher-than-expected wage increases that showed up in the January jobs report. Higher wages are raising the specter of inflation. As a result, interest rates have risen rapidly as investors and traders anticipate that the era of benign
Earnings on many popular tech stocks, including FAANG stocks, are out. For the most part, earnings are better than the consensus numbers but worse than the whisper numbers. Moreover, tech stocks have had a good run. How much of the good news is already discounted in the prices? Should you
The strategy of buying “ugly ducklings that are just turning into swans” is especially attractive for prudent investors who see high risk in chasing the momentum but still want to generate high risk-adjusted returns. One way to learn the strategy is to explore a recent buy signal on Intel INTC.
No politician in the United States wants Americans to be worse off and deliberately take steps that are bad for an average American investor. However the policy of destroying the dollar, though well-intentioned, will lead to American investors being worse off in the long term. In the short term, investors
Apple is the first big tech company to hand President Trump a win. Apple AAPL, in a press release Wednesday, said it will pay $38 billion in repatriation taxes, spend $30 billion in capital expenditures over the next five years and help create 20,000 new jobs inside and outside the