One of the things that has helped the market perform very well this year, along with the expectation that a trade deal between the u.S. and China will eventually get worked out, is the fact that most economic data measurements in the U.S. have continued to come in pretty healthy. Even the fact that tariffs […]
Read MoreBeing a contrarian investor can mean a few different things. One is that while most investors shy away from stocks that are trading at historically low levels, a contrarian will usually immediately see an opportunity to look for a terrific bargain. Another is that the simple fact that a stock is going up often means […]
Read MoreWhen the only subject that anybody in the market wants to talk about at any given time is the latest addition to the trade narrative, it gets pretty easy to miss out on other important information that the market can give you. It’s part of a phenomenon that I like to call “missing the forest […]
Read MoreOne of the most basic tenets of value analysis can be summed up by a sound bite offered by the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffet: “I want to buy a good company at a nice price.” The idea sounds simple enough – but I always find it interesting to see so many different approaches […]
Read MoreOne of the biggest challenges for most investors, no matter what your preferred investing strategy actually is, is being able to see past all of the latest news and market buzz to identify where the real opportunities lie. Politics, current events and “the next big thing” often tend to get in the way, prompting average […]
Read MoreOver the last month the market has been rattled by heightened geopolitical tensions from trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, and in the last week Mexico as well. This week the market has rebounded a bit, with the market moving upward in a big way yesterday on speculation that a deal with Mexico could […]
Read MoreThe thing that is exciting about many of the stocks that have come to be referred to as “Gig Economy” stocks, and that understandably draws in average investors as well as seasoned market veterans, is that many of these companies make their mark by introducing the world to a new way to use technology in […]
Read MoreIf you’re old enough to remember the 1990’s, you probably remember the nascent years of the Internet and the World Wide Web. As businesses began to realize the commercial opportunities that it offered, online businesses of seemingly every type were springing up. The wave of invention and innovation that period fueled impressive growth in the […]
Read MoreIf you read my highlights in this space on a regular basis, you’ve seen me highlight a number of stocks in the semiconductor industry. It’s an interesting segment of the market to me for a number of different reasons. Over the last decade-plus, it’s been one of the highest-performing pockets of the market, arguably one […]
Read MoreIt really seems like the market is going to take any queues for the foreseeable future from the U.S.-China trade front. With both sides seemingly digging in on hard-line positions that they don’t want to be moved off of, it looks like uncertainty is going to continue to rule the markets as we move into […]
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