Thursday, December 13, 2018
The U.S. stock market continues to be led down by former favorites like the stocks that were members of FANG or FAAMG. The reason is quite straightforward – it looks like the rate of growth for many of these companies is slowing. Prime among these companies is Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), which is in the process […]
I’ll be the first to admit, when I went looking for stocks that would not be impacted by the trade war between the U.S. and China, or a flip-flopping interest rate policy, I did not think I would end up in the for-profit education sector. I viewed the sector as plagued by shaky financials and […]
I like to get a sense of what is going on in global markets to help me guide you through a path to profits. And there is one item that caught my eye that I’m sure isn’t being reported by media outlets, such as CNBC. That is, after powering ahead of global rivals for much […]
Stocks have been on a rollercoaster ride since early October when Fed Chairman Powell told the market that neutral interest rate levels were a “long way away” from the current rate. And while Mr. Powell reversed course last week, the damage had already been done to a market weary of tariffs and shaken by ever […]
Despite the recent announcement from drug giant Pfizer that it was raising prices by an average of 5% on about 10% of its drugs on January 15, the warning signs for the industry’s profitability are becoming more frequent. The latest drug pricing proposal from Senator Bernie Sanders had some similarities to one from the Trump […]
Despite the recent Grinch of a market, retail sales this holiday season are expected to rise almost 5% over last year. A report on holiday spending by PWC says 84% of consumers will spend the same or more than they did last year, with individuals expected to spend $1,250 on average. The largest increases in […]
Now that the bloom is off the cryptocurrency rose, investors looking for the latest hot sector have descended upon the pot stock space. Marijuana-related companies look likely to have raised $8 billion from investors in 2018. And that’s understandable – estimates are that it could be a $150 billion sector within a decade. The growth […]
The Turing Test, which is considered one of the best ways to identify artificial intelligence (AI), requires that a human being is unable to distinguish a computer from another human being when asking both of them the same questions. It’s a great academic exercise, but not especially helpful in determining which company in the AI […]
Here is something that may startle you and it’s a subject I will cover in a future issue of Growth Stock Advisor for my subscribers: A research paper by Professor Hendrik Bessembinder, published in the September edition of the Journal of Financial Economics, posed this question “Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills?”. The end result was […]
The latest chapter in the current stock market story centered around Apple. The company announced it would no longer report how many units it sells of its iPhone. While many are speculating why Apple is doing this, I believe it’s because they want to make less transparent the loss of market share in the emerging […]
