The response to my last column, which warned of an ominous pattern in charts of big technology stocks, shows that while professionals are hedged against a decline, the average investor is full of bravado. The real question The real question for investors is what comes next — bloodbath or bliss.
Popular “FAANG” stocks suffered a blood bath Friday. FAANG stocks are Facebook FB, Amazon AMZN, Apple AAPL, Netflix NFLX, and Google GOOG, GOOGL. They’re known as a group because of their persistent outperformance as large-cap U.S. technology stocks. The technology bellwether Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, slid 1.8% on Friday, and the
As the stock market hovers new highs, no one is talking about the dirty secret on Wall Street that is important for your portfolio. Stocks like Apple AAPL, Amazon.com AMZN, Facebook FB, Alphabet GOOG, GOOGL, Microsoft MSFT, and Netflix NFLX, have been on fire. Wall Street analysts keep on raising
The probability is high that certain stocks, below, will continue to rise, provided earnings continue to grow as they have this quarter and the economy remains as supportive as it is now. I am getting a lot of questions from investors after Thursday’s $2 trillion earnings day. It was the
President Trump’s tweet accusing his predecessor of wiretapping him during the campaign — followed by Barack Obama’s denial — has created a highly sensitive subject for many people. With this type of allegation flying around, investors must be pragmatic and review the hard data without a political lens. This is
The fundamental case for Dow 30,000 during Donald Trump’s first term has strengthened as earnings season winds down. Interestingly, this is happening at a time when, from a technical perspective, the stock market has staged a successful breakout of low volatility since the election. Still, there are two danger signs,
Whether you believe in technical analysis or not, technicals are worth paying attention to simply because so many other investors do. Most institutional investors claim to be fundamentalists, however, in my over 30 years in the markets, I have found that a large number of institutional investors are closet technicians.
What should an investor do with the stock of Amazon in the wake of splendid quarterly results and threats by Donald Trump? By and large, the Republican Party is beginning to unite behind Trump, and in opinion polls, Trump is closing the gap with Hillary Clinton. The purpose of this
Weekly Digest from The Arora Report is popular among serious investors and money managers because they have found studying insights from the prior week gives them an edge over the coming weeks. Here is the day by day rundown from the morning capsules made available every morning before the market
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM October 23, 2015 Yesterday ECB in its meeting did not cut interest rates and did not announce more QE. Draghi,