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
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
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
A general who was the architect of Iran’s military-related foreign policy was killed by a U.S. drone in Baghdad, Iraq. As a result, U.S. stocks are falling, and oil prices are rising. The death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was viewed by some as an assassination, owing to his power and
There are 10 things that stock market investors ought to watch out for in January. First, let’s build the requisite background with the help of two charts. Please click here for a long-term annotated chart of the Dow Jones ETF DIA, which tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA. Please click here for an annotated 25-year
The U.S. stock market is in a strange place: President Trump is manipulating the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates — and the rest of us with his on-again, off-again trade deal with China. Investment managers are chasing performance as the year comes to a close. And momentum investors are
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
President Trump says any China trade deal may be best after the 2020 presidential election. Contrary to popular belief, doing so may be good for Trump’s re-election and also for America. It may be good for investors in the very long term but may hurt them in the short term.