Saturday, October 20, 2018
For many years, both the large beverage companies and the large tobacco companies have been in search of growth. That’s because, in both cases, their main products – tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks – have been deemed to be unhealthy and therefore fewer consumers are using their products. But now there is a FOMO (fear […]
It’s the dirty little secret of the digital world we live in… technology is an electricity hog. Demand for computing power globally from internet-connected devices, emails, high-resolution video streaming, surveillance cameras, the new generation of smart TVs and other devices is increasing 20% a year, according to Swedish researcher Anders Andrae. Dire Power Consumption Forecast […]
It’s the bull market that almost no U.S. investor has heard about. But it is a very real and vibrant bull market. What am I talking about? The Japanese stock market, which last week hit a 27-year high! After Japan’s “bubble economy” collapsed in the early 1990s, its entered a long period of recession and […]
Even as technology invades other areas of industry, there has been one notable laggard in adopting new technologies – the energy industry. Even the mining industry is using robots to automate many of the functions at mines, but autonomous robots are still a rarity in the oil and gas industry (more on that later). So […]
Just last week I told you about the new version of its watch by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), which offers a bunch of health features, such as an EKG. The watch though is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to how technology is changing medicine. One area that really has me excited […]
Throughout U.S. corporate history, there have been some very memorable company founders such as JP Morgan and Henry Ford. Fast forward a few decades and we have Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I suspect though that history will less kindly remember the current batch of founders including the likes of Travis Kalarick of Uber, John […]
Last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) unveiled a trio of new phones that followed in line with its corporate strategy. That is, get buyers to pay higher prices for the phones while hopefully gobbling up more services (such as entertainment) as growth in the global smartphone market slows to a crawl. The iPhone Xs (starting at […]
I’m a great believer in looking at areas that few on Wall Street do for growth opportunities. I like to find a major positive change happening in the global macroeconomic environment that will benefit a sector or industry and then uncover a company that should benefit from this change in the long term. I’ve recently […]
It was nice to see the New York Times catching up to what I told you months ago here… the headline read ‘Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88 billion Online Ad Market’. I first brought this to everyone’s attention an article in early June. You can read it here. So get ready everyone… it […]
The $5.1 billion deal to buy the Costa Coffee chain by Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is just the latest example highlighting the great lengths to which food and drinks companies are trying to keep pace with rapidly changing consumer habits that are upending traditional business models across the sector. The former owner, Britain’s Whitbread, had said […]
