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,
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
Elon Musk is a successful visionary often compared to Apple’s Steve Jobs. Musk has big plans for electric cars. One of those plans is a self-driving feature, in this case, an option called Autopilot. Autopilot is exciting, but has lately become a source of trouble after the first-ever death in
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) JAPAN MAY START NEGATIVE INTEREST LOANS TO COMBAT NEGATIVE INTEREST DEPOSITS, CHINA MOVE MAY DAMPEN EXCESSIVE SILVER SPECULATION April 22, 2016 This is what
(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,
The stock of GoPro (GPRO) is hotter than its wearable action cameras. After its IPO at $24 a share the stock shot up to $31.34. With about 123.1 million shares outstanding, this gives the company a valuation of $3.86 billion. GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman has successfully pulled off alchemy by
Microsoft is offering a trade-in program to trade MacBook Air for Surface Pro 3. Microsoft is also announcing deep price cuts to its cloud storage called OneDrive. For 100 GB Microsoft is reducing the price from $7.49 to $1.49 and for 200GB from $11.49 to $3.99. Microsoft is also increasing
When a stock is under owned and good news comes, there are plenty of buyers to move the stock up. On the other hand, when a stock is over owned, there aren’t many buyers left to push it higher and even the slightest bit of negative news can push the
It was not long ago that Samsung introduced the wearable watch that communicates with Samsung phones under the brand name Galaxy Gear. Galaxy Gear sales have been nothing to write home about, but poor sales have not stopped intense speculation that Apple (AAPL) will soon introduce its own wearable watch
Technology often leaps ahead of the laws needed to deal with the aftermath of widespread adoption of new technologies. Monday’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, based in Luxembourg, illustrates the point. The court ordered Google to modify links to information that is irrelevant or outdated