Donald Trump is starting his first full week as U.S. president. Bearish investors have been out in full force, proclaiming, with high confidence, that it’s time to sell stocks. At the same time, bullish gurus are saying just the opposite. So who’s right? Let’s explore the answer. First, we need
U.S. bank and financial stocks, which had been in a funk since interest rates fell close to zero, have a good shot at beating the broader equity market in 2017. So the questions for investors are: “Which banks should I buy?” “Which banks that have already soared should I buy?”
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
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. We came into the election heavy into financials. Financials have been the best performing major sector since the election. Here are updated target zones. At this time, other zones are not being changed. Those following ‘The Good Way’ and are not heavily
My interpretation from this chart going back 56 years is that Donald Trump’s criticism of the Federal Reserve will kill the “Trump rally.” It’s not a question of “if,” but “when” and from “how high.” At a minimum, the foundation of the death of the Trump rally will be
The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is scheduled for Sept. 26. The secret to success in investing and trading is to prepare for various scenarios in advance, in this case, the debate. Let us start by looking at key S&P 500 — represented by the SPDR
On Monday, Donald Trump presented his new economic plan at the Detroit Economic Club. While light on detail, there were a few things investors could take away from the speech. (And so we don’t get distracted with politics, let me state that I am neither for Trump nor Clinton. My
After the Brexit vote, European banks were hammered. American banks held up comparatively well as the prevailing wisdom is that large American banks are fairly insulated from European banks. One good way to generate high risk-adjusted returns is to find anomalies that run counter to the prevailing wisdom. One such
Before making any investment decisions, investors are better off understanding some of the moves by professionals that are happening now at quarter-end and before Independence Day. The chart Let us start by looking at a tick chart of S&P 500 futures, gold futures and silver futures. Since most investors use
Since the great recession of 2008, I have often heard investors say that big banks have become zombie banks. They are alive because of government support, and the government will never let them make decent profits. The political rhetoric of this presidential campaign has also been very negative about big