Apple reported blowout earnings after the stock market closed Tuesday. Earnings were better than the consensus and the whisper numbers. Still, those numbers are in the rearview mirror. Let’s look ahead: The prospects for iPhone 12, a 5G-based phone, just got better. However, Apple investors and those who want to
President Trump says a lot of things — sometimes the facts check out, and other times they don’t. Trump’s latest statement about the most important topic for stock market investors is likely correct. Let’s explore the issue with the help of a chart. Chart Please click here for a chart showing the
History does not always repeat itself in the stock market, but it is always instructive. Overbought markets tend to be vulnerable. Sometimes it is an exogenous event that topples stocks. What could be happening currently? Could it be that the deadly virus spreading across China stops the buying frenzy in
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
Nobody likes the Sword of Damocles hanging over them — certainly not if you are China, the second-largest economy in the world. Oil used to be the lifeblood of the economy, but no more. The lifeblood of the modern economy is semiconductors. (Please see “Investors are misplacing threats to the U.S. stock
Earnings are the single best guide in the stock market in the long term. In the short term, sentiment rules. Only 8% of the strong move up in the stock market last year was attributable to earnings. The rest was triggered by the Federal Reserve reversing its policy of raising
Pitchmen (and pitchwomen) are in high gear selling the next revolution: 5G cellular wireless. The train is leaving the station, and investors must jump on board now — so goes the typical pitch. Is your skeptical antennae going up? They should be. Selling “revolutions” works when stocks are in an
A noteworthy observation in the stock market this year is that popular technology stocks are outperforming broader indexes. Could 2020 be the year of FAAMNGs — Facebook FB, Apple AAPL, Amazon AMZN, Microsoft MSFT, Netflix NFLX and Google parent company Alphabet GOOG, GOOGL ? The answer is “yes” if current trends continue. However, the year is still young. There
President Trump acted where his two immediate predecessors, presidents Obama and Bush, apparently punted by killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. After Soleimani was killed and the stock market was falling, I said his death may not be as significant for the stock market as it seems. Now Iran has retaliated
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