Trade, trade, trade – analysts and investors have been focusing on this single question now for more than a year. I don’t believe social media is helping the matter – President Trump tweets about increasing tariffs and calls China a trade “enemy,” and then a few days later seems to reverse course with another tweet […]
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Read MoreThere are a lot of ways to look at a company and evaluate them for fundamental strength. Traditional metrics, including many of the ones that I rely on for the stocks that I analyze, measure everything from sales and earnings growth to how much productivity the company realizes per employee. You can break down the […]
Read MoreAs trade concerns have introduced volatility back into the market, industrial and technology stocks in particular have been battered the worst. It is true that many of the companies in these sectors have been referring to tariffs and trade among headwinds to their latest earnings results. That is among the reasons that the Industrial sector, […]
Read MoreOne of the challenges that most people have to grapple with if they’re new to investing is the volume of data that generally needs to absorbed to determine if a stock is a useful investing opportunity. Depending on who you talk to and the investing method they prefer, you’ll find that there are as many […]
Read MoreIf the market’s recovery since the beginning of the year is legitimate, it becomes more and more tempting to start thinking about expanding our view of the stocks we pay attention to, so we can consider more useful investing opportunities. The temptation for a value-oriented investor is just as real, because when the market experiences […]
Read MoreOne of my favorite methods for paying attention to the broad market, and to track the ebb and flow of institutional interest is to pay attention to sector rotation. As economic data indicates one sector may be more favorably positioned than another, institutions like mutual funds and investment banks will often shift their assets into […]
Read MoreFor the last couple of days, the market has been rebounding, driven primarily by what look like encouraging signs that trade talks between U.S. and China are productive and making progress. It’s a good bet that any kind of deal that eases tensions and tariffs is going to be taken as a positive sign by […]
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