Donald Trump has accused countries including China and Japan of manipulating their currencies and running large trade deficits with the U.S. Investors in Asia were on edge leading into the meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump late last week. The economic policies of Abe, known as Abenomics,
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
Donald Trump’s inauguration speech Jan. 20 could be boiled down to: “I’m going to put America first.” As an American, I liked that theme. “Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength,” the newly installed President Trump said. He also remarked: “We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and
I can safely say that, from my 35 years in the financial markets, to be consistently successful at investing, one must put prudence over popularity. Human nature as it is, investors often find it difficult to take unpopular actions. My motivation in writing this column is to nudge you
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. NVDA was entered this morning at $77.56. It is trading at $85.77 as of this writing. This is a large gain in a very, very short time. It never pays to look the gift horse in the mouth. Consider taking profits and
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. NVDA is a semiconductor company engaged in gaming, virtual reality, deep machine learning and automotive sectors (self-driving cars). The company reported blow out earnings. The stock is trading up over $9 in the pre-market. This is a short to medium-term trade not an
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. If holding consider taking about 50% profits in three months on NVDA and exiting the position. The company will release earnings after the close tomorrow, (11th). Considering that the stock has run up about 50% in three months, earnings represent a high
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
Intel INTC, has been the king of servers, desktops and laptops. However, despite a massive effort, it has had a limited success in mobile, especially at Apple AAPL. For a semiconductor manufacturer, the biggest prize is to get into iPhone 7. Earlier today, Bloomberg published an enticing headline, ‘Intel Gets
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.