By The Time You Read This News From Venezuela, It Will Be Old News! Daily reports from Venezuela are almost close to useless these days, because things are changing by the hour. By the time a reporter takes pen to paper (you hopefully understand the metaphor), and until it gets printed or published online or […] Read more
Earnings reports are ratcheting up this week and the semiconductor industry is in the spotlight more than any other. By the end of next week, we will have gotten results from six of the top 10 holdings in the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (NYSE: SMH). The earliest results are already in with Lam Research (Nasdaq: […] Read more
The rarest of start-up breeds is being found in several cities in China. The “Unicorn,” a private company with a market capitalization of $1 billion, is being spotted more of late. A Chinese government report put the number of unicorns in the country at 164 in 2017, a 25% increase from the year before. By some […] Read more
In the 1987 classic moving Wall Street, the iconic character Gordon Gekko advised Bud Fox, “Don’t get emotional about stock. It clouds the judgment.” Of course, the table was turned later in the movie and it was Gekko that was getting emotional over the roller coaster ride Blue Star Airlines was on. I am bringing […] Read more
Over the course of the past two years, I have often written about my disdain for the Trump personality. Of the 16 candidates in the Republican primary, he was my 17th choice. I have constantly called him out for his pugnacious personality, his sophomoric name-calling and the too frequent bending the truth to the breaking point over matters […] Read more
As one might anticipate, projections for real estate values and the market, in general, are scattered like stars in the sky. So many thoughts and statistics it is hard to know where to begin. My experience is that real estate brokers are somewhat synonymous with stockbrokers in regard to their involvement in the efficient market […] Read more
For most of American history, it has been the role of the news media to report on the five classic questions – who, what, when, where and how. Opinion – and they all have them – was left to the editorial department and named columnists … period. And even among editorial writers and columnists, it […] Read more
On Friday, Larry Kudlow, White House economic adviser said that the economy will continue to boom despite the recent sluggish movement of the stock market. “We have strong growth, strong jobs and no inflation. That is a terrific optimal situation for our country or any country to be in and I hope the Central Banks […] Read more
The next earnings season is set to kick off next week, and this could be a critical round of earnings for the market. Stocks fell sharply in the fourth quarter and seem to be trying to bounce back at this point. If the bounce is going to continue past a few days or a few […] Read more
I am a creature of habit. At the beginning of each month, I comb through the thousands of stocks in Investor’s Business Daily’s database. I look for stocks that meet three criteria: an EPS rating over 80, an SMR rating of an A, and average daily trading volume of 500K or more. The EPS rating […] Read more
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