Your 10 Best Stocks for a Core Portfolio–and the “Why” for each pick
I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...
This week is last stand for growth stock earnings hopes
Going into this earnings season, the hope was that strong, surprisingly strong perhaps, earnings from the big growth stocks would put a stop to the selling. Earnings would be strong enough to convince investors that the market wasn’t over-valued since at these...
Please watch my new YouTube video: 3 Picks on Tech Stock Guidance
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My ninetieth YouTube video “3 Picks on Tech Stock Guidance” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
Apparently everybody decided today that tomorrow’s March jobs report will show accelerating economic growth
With the financial markets closed tomorrow for Good Friday, traders and investors jumped in to buy today ahead of what is expected to be a jobs report tomorrow morning showing unemployment dropping to 6.0% (by the official measure) from 6.2% in February. The Standard...
Justice Department to step up antitrust scrutiny of Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple
According to the Wall Street Journal this afternoon, the Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition. “The new antitrust inquiry is the strongest signal yet of Attorney General...
Chipmakers begin to cut supplies for China’s Huawei and lead U.S. stocks down today
Call it a secondary effect of the U.S.-China trade war but it’s still clearly taking a bite out of the shares of U.S. chip makers today. Last week the Trump administration added sanctions on China’s Huawei Technologies that would prevent the company from buying U.S....
GOOG gets hit by market profit margin fears even after good earnings
Some times in the financial markets, the numbers aren’t as important as the narrative. I think that was the case with Alphabet (GOOG), Tuesday, April 24. Monday after the market close Alphabet reported first quarter earnings of $9.93. That was a healthy 64 cents...
Tech giants crush earnings after close today: AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, INTC
Just the bare facts. And on the bare facts of earnings from Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel it’s hard to see the market doing anything but climbing tomorrow. Â Alphabet (GOOG) beats by $1.17 a share on earnings. Revenue climbed 23.7% yer over year to...
Huge earnings beat can’t save Alphabet from metrics miss
Alphabet (GOOG) dropped 3.1% in after hours trading in spite of reporting earnings of $5.01 a share, well ahead of the $4.49 expected by Wall Street. Revenue of $26.01 billion, up 21% from the second quarter of 2016, also beat the Wall Street consensus of $25.6...
Buy Google (GOOG)
Google is the Internet’s dominant search company with about 60% of the global market for search compared to a 15% share for second place Yahoo (YHOO). But (The 2009 launch of Microsoft’s new search engineer Bing has only slight moved the gages.) Google’s...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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