Monday marked the beginning of a new chapter in the trade war between the United States and China that is beginning to ripple clearly into the market. Before the market opened, analysts were surprised by the announcement that tech giants Alphabet (GOOGL) and Qualcomm (QCOM) were taking steps to cut off Chinese telecomm behemoth Huawei […]
Read MoreOngoing trade uncertainty has continued to contribute to a high degree of volatility in the market. With both sides only seeming to be intent on ramping up their own respective rhetoric, it seems unlikely that any kind of resolution is unlikely to be found in the near term. I expect that to translate to ongoing […]
Read MoreTrade war, trade war, trade war…it really seems like investors are discounting all other information in favor of the next sound bite or tweet from the Trump administration or from China. After ending last week with a big sell off, and starting this week on the same note, the market is hyper-aware and super-sensitive to […]
Read MoreAfter a few days of doing like the rest of the market and paying a lot of attention to tariff news and trade war rhetoric, it felt like today might be a good time to shift the focus – at least a little bit – away from some of those issues and look for something […]
Read MoreThe market rallied strongly yesterday; I guess that shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise, since investors are apparently so fearful of the prospect of what an extended escalation of the trade war that the entire market seems to be hanging on every tweet or sound bite that comes from the White House or […]
Read MoreIt seems that the only news anybody really cares about right now is the trade war. China announced yesterday that it would impose $60 billion of retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. after the Trump administration increased already imposed duties from 10% to 25% at the end of last week. That has propelled the market to […]
Read MoreFriday at 12:00 a.m., the Trump administration followed through on its threat to increase tariffs against China from 10% to 25%. Experts and pundits, including corporate heads, politicians, and economists seem united in the opinion that this latest phase of the trade war will be felt more acutely on the consumer level. The consensus seems […]
Read MoreAt the beginning of 2018, I ran a complete analysis of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY), a stock that I’ve followed for some time, and used in the past for some of my own value-oriented investments. The stock has been in an extended, long-term downward trend dating back to the first quarter of 2015. That […]
Read MoreThe market has been set on increasingly uncertain footing in the last two days as all of us try to figure out how the week is going to end between the U.S. and China and tariffs. The Trump administration continues to hold to their story that China reneged on previous agreements, but investors and analysts […]
Read MoreMarkets yesterday saw one of their most volatile days of the entire year so far, doubling down on trade uncertainty raised when a new tweet from President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to impose $200 billion in new tariffs this Friday, raising current levels from 10% to the long-feared 25%. On Monday, the market tried […]
Read MoreI started out this week looking for stocks that are currently bucking the overall market’s bullish tone and trend right now. That’s a deliberately contrarian viewpoint that works off of the simple idea that stocks that are trading at or near low extremes offer a better bargain proposition than those that are surging to new […]
Read MoreWithin the scope of long-term investing, there are two primary methods most of us use: investing for growth, or looking for value. I write a lot in this space about value-oriented investing, because more than two decades of study and hard experience have taught me that it is the investing method that suits me best. […]
Read MoreOne of the elements that I’ve come to rely on as a value investor to identify good bargains in the stock market is to look for fundamentally strong stocks that are trading at the lower end of their historical ranges. That’s a technical addition to the value-oriented investing system I’ve built over years of study […]
Read MoreLike most sectors in the market this year, the Basic Materials sector has seen a sizable move to the upside. As measured by the S&P 500 Materials Sector SPDR ETF (XLB), the sector is up a little over 11% since the beginning of the year. This is a sector that operates with a fairly high […]
Read MoreOne of the most basic principles of technical analysis is the identification of trends. Trends can last very short periods of time of just a few weeks at a time, or they can extend into several months or even into years. One of the most important elements of trend analysis is the simple fact that […]
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