September 16, 2024 @ 5:13 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell |
Apple (AAPL) shares were down 2.78% today, Monday September 16, as pre-order sales to the iPhone 16 showed lower than expected demand for the new phones after a lackluster update that included fewer AI features than competitive smartphones. Pre-order sales, which...
September 10, 2024 @ 5:55 pm | Breaking News |
Apple (AAPL) today lost its court fight over a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill. The European Union’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law by giving Apple an unfair advantage by awarding the company...
September 8, 2024 @ 5:16 pm | Breaking News |
Could we get an AI “nothing-burger” from Apple (AAPL) on Monday, September 9, when the company rolls out its latest iPhone?. Which are supposed to mark Apple’s advent as a serious smartphone AI player. All indications are that Apple’s AI features on the...
July 21, 2024 @ 8:27 am | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I expect technology sector weakness to continue this week with earnings worries still unanswered. What could put an end to selling in tech stocks? The NASDAQ 100 is down almost 4% in the last week. Certainly earnings news that showed earnings growth at the companies...
April 15, 2024 @ 7:35 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
pple has lost its spot as the world’s biggest mobile phone seller, IDC reported today, April 15. A steep drop in sales in China for Apple let South Korean rival Samsung retake the lead in global market share. Samsung had been the biggest global seller of mobile phones...
March 28, 2024 @ 6:10 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Apple (AAPL) is likely to take its shareholders on an even wilder ride in the next six months than they’ve been on since the December all-time high at $199.62. The end result, I think is likely to be a renewed rally beginning in the fall–if you can either hold...
March 6, 2024 @ 6:38 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Apple (AAPL) shares are down 12% for 2024 to date as of March 5. But I don’t think Apple’s troubles are over. And it will take some pretty fast talking at the June WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) to reverse the downtrend in the shares. Absent a...
January 28, 2024 @ 11:24 am | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Yes, it’s a Federal Reserve meeting week, but I expect Apple’s (AAPL) earnings report for its December quarter to be the big event of the week. With the potential to move the tech sector and the market. Fed first. The Fed’s interest rate setting body, the Open Market...
January 23, 2024 @ 4:46 pm | Breaking News |
The Magnificent Seven stocks accounted for virtually all of 2023’s 24% stock market gain. The Magnificent Seven stocks are Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA). And according to Wall...
December 18, 2023 @ 8:01 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
The hope among investors and on Wall Street was that Apple (AAPL) would show revenue growth when it reported its fiscal first quarter earnings in January. That growth would be the first in a year after four straight quarters of falling sales. That’s the longest streak...
November 2, 2023 @ 7:49 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
So let’s see how the market takes this tomorrow. Today stocks staged an impressive upside more. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed up 1.89% and the NASDAQ Composite ended the day 1.78% higher. The small cap Russell 2000 was the day’s best...
March 9, 2023 @ 7:33 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
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January 9, 2023 @ 10:57 pm | Breaking News |
News, rumor, and speculation from the Consumer Electronics Show point to a second half of 2023 launch for Apple’s (AAPL) AR “metaverse” headset. Apple has been “launching” this high-performance AR headset since 2017 but plans for a launch...
November 4, 2022 @ 7:14 pm | Breaking News |
On Thursday, November 3, Lyft (LYFT) said it would trim 13% of its staff, or around 683 people. Amazon announced a “pause” on corporate hiring after halting hiring in its retail division last month. And Apple (AAPL) has suspended hiring for jobs outside of...
October 19, 2022 @ 9:54 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted by one-hundred-ninety-fourth YouTube video: China Retaliates, Act 2 of the U.S./China trade war. The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has rubber-stamped a third term as president for Xi Jinping–a move that required amending the...
October 10, 2022 @ 11:08 pm | AAPL, AMD, ASML, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, NVDA |
If you liked the Trump administration’s trade war with China, you’ll love the Biden administration’s new, more dangerous, escalated version. Rather than slapping tariffs on Chinese goods, and inviting retaliatory tariffs by China on American...
August 18, 2022 @ 7:35 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
If you’re looking for a catalyst to move slumping technology shares higher, circle September 7. That’s the date for Apple’s (AAPL) launch event to unveil the new iPhone 14 line. It’s just one–but the biggest–of Apple’s product...
July 24, 2022 @ 4:59 pm | Breaking News |
What a week ahead. I’d expect speculation about what the Federal Reserve will say on Wednesday to dominate a very lengthy slate of market news. No real suspense about whether or not the Fed will raise rates at its July 27 meeting. The central bank has made it...
July 18, 2022 @ 7:40 pm | Breaking News |
The Standard & Poor’s 500 was on track for a decent day–the index was up 0.79% at 12:43 p.m. New York time–and then Bloomberg broke a story, picked up everywhere, reporting that Apple (AAPL) intended to slow hiring and reduce spending growth...
May 24, 2022 @ 6:39 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Snap (SNAP), the online company best known for its SnapChat platform, closed down 43.08% today, May 24. On April 21 when the company released its first quarter earnings report, the company had forecast second quarter revenue growth of 20% to 25%. That was already...
April 25, 2022 @ 6:48 pm | AAPL, ABBV, AMZN, BMY, Breaking News, FB, GOOG, PYPL |
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...
January 28, 2022 @ 7:23 pm | AAPL, Breaking News |
It’a always dangerous to construct a trend from Friday’s trading. Especially when the earlier part of the week has been so strong in one direction or another. (In this case, down, down, down.) Ahead of the weekend, stocks often reverse the trend from...
January 20, 2022 @ 7:56 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, GOOG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
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...
January 4, 2022 @ 7:02 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
When I bought shares of Apple (AAPL) in my Jubak Picks and Volatility Portfolios, I was looking for gains from the end of the year rally (which kind of fizzed out) and the traditional Santa Claus rally (which came through as expected) to drive shares higher in the...
December 27, 2021 @ 7:32 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell |
Judging from the close of Monday’s trading session, there looks to be enough fuel for a Santa Claus rally to end 2021. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed up 1.38% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.98%. The NASDAQ Composite was ahead by 1.39%...
December 9, 2021 @ 7:15 pm | AAPL, AMZN, Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-eighth YouTube video “Look Out for Earnings Season” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
December 2, 2021 @ 6:57 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Want to know exactly how volatile the stock market is right now? Yesterday investors and traders got news that the first case of the Omicron Variant had been recorded in California. On that, and some “We’ll tighten sooner than expected” remarks from...
November 30, 2021 @ 6:51 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Even as losses accelerate for almost all stocks as we head into the close today–the Standard & Poor’s 500, which was down 1.31% at 2:30 In New York had moved to a loss of 1.74% as of 3:30–shares of Apple (AAPL) continue to hang onto the green....
November 29, 2021 @ 6:55 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell |
Today, Monday November 29, it’s a tale of two bounces from Friday’s big sell off. Technology stocks and especially big technology stocks are up big. At the close in New York Applied Materials was up 5.53%. Adobe (ADBE) was ahead 3.83%. Nvidia (NVDA) was...
November 23, 2021 @ 7:49 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Buy, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...