Earnings on many popular tech stocks, including FAANG stocks, are out. For the most part, earnings are better than the consensus numbers but worse than the whisper numbers. Moreover, tech stocks have had a good run. How much of the good news is already discounted in the prices? Should you
Apple is the first big tech company to hand President Trump a win. Apple AAPL, in a press release Wednesday, said it will pay $38 billion in repatriation taxes, spend $30 billion in capital expenditures over the next five years and help create 20,000 new jobs inside and outside the
Stock bulls might want to be on alert if new allegations against President Trump turn out to be true. Special Counsel Robert Mueller already is investigating Russian collusion, which is a big overhang over the Trump administration. And, now, Michael Wolff’s new book (released Jan. 5), “Fire and Fury,” makes
President Trump routinely makes authoritative statements about the stock market, as he takes credit for its rise. No other president in history has ever spoken so much about the U.S. stock market. Now Trump has preordered “Dow 30,000,” though not literally. Given his track record of making statements about the
The January Effect tends to offer an opportunity to potentially make about 30% in three months — equivalent to a 120% annualized return. It is a phenomenon that makes prices of certain stocks rise more in January than the market averages. Over the past 30 years, we have made money
Tax reform is causing cross-currents in the stock market. There are five likely moves ahead that are of special note. The best way to know if buyers or sellers are winning as a result of those five moves is to look at money flows. So let’s look at money flows
Apple is making a big move into lasers. The features you have come to love, such as Face ID, portrait mode and Animoji, all depend on lasers. Here’s how you, too, can join Apple in generating profits from lasers. Apple AAPL, -0.01% is making an investment in Finisar FNSR. Let’s
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping 24,000 in a big rally this year, Dow 30,000 is now on the horizon. That was not always the case. In February 2017, when the Dow DJIA, was much lower, I laid out a fundamental case for the benchmark reaching 30,000. I was scorned,
The U.S. is in a raging bull market in stocks. Some gurus continue to revise their upward targets for stock prices. But many keep warning of a crash. What is the average investor to think — and how to act? And how does he or she gain an edge? The
Astute investors want an edge in the financial markets. Money flows, among other metrics, provide an edge. And now the money flows in the U.S. are beginning to shift. Let’s explore with the help of two charts. The charts Please click here for a chart showing money flows in broad-based