If 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 MoreIf you’ve been reading my daily posts for very long at all, you should be pretty used to seeing me evaluate companies throughout the market on the basis of both their fundamental strength as well as their value proposition. That’s because in the search for good investing opportunities, I’ve learned to rely on a few […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of factors that a smart investor should consider when thinking about using a stock for a long-term investing opportunity. A company’s fundamental strength and relative value are two of the primary elements that I pay attention to, but along with those I also factor in technical factors like the stock’s long-term […]
Read MoreI’m wrapping up my run through the Healthcare Equipment industry by looking at a stock that, like just about the entire rest of the industry, is at the extreme high end of a very long-term upward trend. Part of the reason that this industry has drawn my attention this week is because of the extended […]
Read MoreTrade concerns have put investors on edge in general, which has led a number of industries to drift, or start move a bit lower. Industrial and Technology stocks, not surprisingly have been among the biggest movers as trade rumors ebb and flow, but indications that there may be progress are encouraging, including a new, 90-day […]
Read MorePlus, Chinese negotiators are maintaining “effective communication,” Hurricane Dorian is bearing down on Florida, Campbell Soup is gaining, and Ulta Beauty is crashing.
Read MoreJust as trade tensions seemed to escalating beyond any hope of near-term recovery, the Trump administration as well as Chinese officials both have seemed to shift the conversation. It certainly doesn’t mean that newly introduced tariffs from China, and an increase in existing and planned duties from the U.S. won’t happen, but it does seem […]
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Read MoreTrade, 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 […]
Read MoreIf you’re like me, it can get a bit tiresome to hear about nothing but the trade war, tariffs, and listen to market media and analysts speculate about the impact of the latest Trump tweet. It’s been more than a year that tariffs between the U.S. and its trading partners – and most particularly, China […]
Read MoreOne of the interesting things to observe in the economy during the late upward stages of an economic cycle is consumer lending. A struggling economy usually prompts the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in an effort to encourage more business activity. Lower interest rates mean cheaper borrowing for businesses and individuals. For the purposes […]
Read MoreWhen investors start to get more nervous about the sustainability of economic growth, and therefore of the market in general, volatility tends to increase. That means that stock prices tend to see wider-than-normal swings from extreme high to extreme low. Most of the market’s current uncertainty seems to be focused on the prospect that economic […]
Read MoreAs it relates to trade, most analysts agree that the sectors that are the most sensitive to pressures from tariffs, currency devaluations, and geopolitical tensions include Industrial stocks. As trade concerns have mounted in the last month, the Industrial sector has dropped by almost -5, and is mostly flat over the last twelve months; however, […]
Read MoreAs has been a pretty consistent theme for most of the past year, uncertainty around trade continues to put the market on edge. Beginning last month, investors started feeling trade anxiety all over again as trade progress seemed to stall yet again. At the beginning of this week, hope shifted back yet again after the […]
Read MoreUncertainty since mid-July in the broad market has put a lot of pressure on stocks in a lot of industries – and if the analysts are to be believed, sectors that are the most exposed to trade pressures and sensitive to the cyclical nature of economic ebb and flow, like Technology and Industrials are at […]
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