Sunday, April 22, 2018
With this year’s tax filing deadline date just past, it’s a good as time as any to take a look at a few special situations whose stock prices were hit because of recent changes in tax policies. The first company I want to tell you about is one that has become a real life example […]
The definition of sports is changing. For those people who have never known a world without the internet, sports can mean something quite different than for us a wee bit older. For those people, sports are just as likely to be played sitting in a comfy chair with headphones, a keyboard and a mouse. Welcome […]
Water is seemingly everywhere, covering about 70% of our planet. Yet, fresh water is extremely scarce – accounting for a mere 3% of the world’s supply. Of that amount, the vast majority is either locked up in glaciers or reside in inaccessible subterranean pockets. And the fresh water that is accessible is not evenly distributed […]
Ask the average investor the biggest beneficiary of the move around the world toward electric vehicles and the likely answer will be Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA). I only wish I could press a very loud buzzer informing them they are wrong. Tesla is just one ‘horse’ in a very crowded field of automakers. I know that […]
In what was a very poor April Fool’s joke, the stock market took a tumble on Monday, closing below its 200-day moving average for the first time since June 2016. U.S. stocks had their worst start to an April in many decades as measured by the S&P index. The 2.2% plunge was exceeded by only […]
One of the best technology sectors right now has nothing to do with Apple, Google, or Facebook. It’s in the area of photonics. In simplest terms, photonics is the science of light. I want you to think about it for a moment – think about how, since almost the birth of humankind, light and optics […]
2018 was supposed to be the year that Mark Zuckerberg said he would “fix Facebook”. But it’s only three months into the new year and his task looks a lot tougher after the company went through one of the worst periods in its history in recent days with $75 billion wiped off its market value. […]
While President Trump fights the battle to save jobs in old-line industries such as steel, he may be losing the war for the future (despite the imposition of direct tariffs on China). The United States has always been predominant in new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). But now China is rapidly closing the gap. […]
It strikes me, at times, how little humankind has changed over the centuries. The ancient Greeks waited for answers to the most pertinent questions of their day from the Oracle at Delphi – a high priestess that supposedly spoke to the god Apollo. Today, Wall Street also waits for word from on high as to […]
The imposition of a 25% tariff on imported steel by President Trump has certainly been a headline grabber. But it obscures the long-term problems faced by the U.S. steel industry. And it only addresses one side of the classic economic equation for any commodity – supply and the industry’s struggle against cheap imports. The share […]
