February 10, 2020 @ 7:06 pm | Breaking News |
Workers at Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as FoxConn) were originally to be back at work at Apple’s (AAPL) largest manufacturing partner for iPhones today February 10. Then last week the company told workers to stay away from its Shenzhen headquarters...
January 13, 2020 @ 7:46 pm | Breaking News |
Today has continued a pattern that emerged last week. With the odds improving that the United States and China will sign a Part 1 trade agreement on Wednesday (or so), the risk on, momentum stocks that led the market in 2019 have reasserted their leadership....
November 18, 2019 @ 6:03 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NVDA |
After the close on November 14 Nvidia (NVDA) announced fiscal third quarter 2020 quarterly earnings of $1.78 a share, 20 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus. Revenue of $3.10 billion was $92.21 million above projections. Chip stocks are currently among the...
November 4, 2019 @ 6:51 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Today, Monday November 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its first new all-time high since July. The Standard & Poor’s 500 and the NASDAQ Composite also saw new highs. Stocks gave up some of their gains into the close but the Dow still finished up...
October 16, 2019 @ 7:42 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) may indeed follow the technology sector of the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. But don’t expect much in the way of diversification from the ETF. The latest figures on Yahoo Finance show that 19.55% of the...
October 15, 2019 @ 7:19 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Volatility |
On October 8 I wrote “Tech is back” led by fact-based speculation that Apple (AAPL) had asked supplier to increase production of components for the iPhone 11 by 10%. That, obviously, was a good sign for Apple, which is set to announce earnings on October...
October 9, 2019 @ 7:53 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Recent Buys, TSM |
It’s hard to get a handle on exactly how big the market called the Internet of Things will be. Bain Capital sats $520 billion by 2021. McKensey, another consulting company, says $11 trillion by 2021. The huge difference is a result of 1) what these...
August 7, 2019 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, Volatility |
Shares of Apple (AAPL) climbed 0.21% to lead the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) higher by 0.40% as of 2 p.m. trading in New York. That helped disguise what is otherwise a return to the risk off trading of Monday after Tuesday’s rally–although with...
July 22, 2019 @ 6:39 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MSFT |
Technology stocks drove the market higher today in an expansion of last week’s subdued but important “Microsoft rally” on that company’s earnings. With earnings from Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), and Amazon (AMZN) on tap on Wednesday and...
June 13, 2019 @ 7:12 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Today Broadcom (AVGO) cut its annual sales forecast, saying that the U.S.-China trade war will wipe out the rebound in orders that it had predicted for the second half of 2019. Revenue at the chipmaker for fiscal 2019 will be $22.5 billion instead of the $24.5 billion...
June 10, 2019 @ 7:45 pm | Breaking News, CRM, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), Comcast (CMCSA) don’t want to be “dumb pipes” that supply Internet connections but that see the bulk of revenue from Internet customers go to the streaming companies that sell content to subscribers. So they’re in a...
June 6, 2019 @ 7:29 pm | Breaking News, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Update |
I added shares of Infineon (IFNNY) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio on May 7. The chip maker hasn’t exactly been tearing up the track since then, scoring a 26.59% loss. But on June 3 Infineon acquired another chip maker Cypress Semiconductor (CY) for $10.1 billion in...
June 3, 2019 @ 6:37 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Going into Monday, June 3, the consensus on Wall Street was that if the Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers Index for manufacturing fell more than expected, U.S. stocks would follow in a rout. A lower than expected reading on the index would...
May 21, 2019 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
Stocks–especially chip stocks–have rallied strongly today on headlines saying that the Department of Commerce has granted a 90-day license for U.S. companies to do business with China’s Huawei Technologies in order to service existing networks. This...
May 20, 2019 @ 7:29 pm | Breaking News, GOOG, QCOM |
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....
May 17, 2019 @ 7:29 pm | Breaking News, CSCO, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Yesterday, May 16, earnings from Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Wal-Mart (CSCO) before the open powered U.S. stocks higher to start the day.So what did Cisco say? (I reported on Wal-Mart in a post yesterday.) Cisco reported earnings per share of 78 cents for the...
May 16, 2019 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
It’s not even remotely a surprise. A day after the Trump administration declared a national emergency in order to product U.S. telecommunications for foreign antagonists–with a clear eye on China and Chinese companies such as Huawei–the Chinese...
May 7, 2019 @ 7:45 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, SEDG, Update |
SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG) reported earnings of 64 cents a share after the New York markets closed yesterday. That was 7 cents a share above Wall Street projections. The company reported first quarter revenue of $271.9 million, up 29.5% year over year, and ahead of...
April 29, 2019 @ 7:12 pm | Breaking News, INTC |
Shares of Intel (INTC) continued their post-earnings slide today, dropping about 2.52% to $51.11. On April 24, the day before there company reported first quarter 2019 earnings, the stock closed at $58.72. That’s a drop of 12.96% in less than a week. I think...
March 11, 2019 @ 11:28 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NVDA |
Nvidia (NVDA) has won the bidding to acquire Mellanox Tech (MLNX). Nvidia has said that it expects the acquisition, which will be funded through cash on the Nvidia’s balance sheet, to be accretive to non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP EPS, and free cash flow...
January 29, 2019 @ 6:55 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
The U.S. Department of Justice filed criminal charges Monday against Huawei Technologies, China’s biggest technology company. The charges include an allegation that the company stole trade secrets from TMobile and that Huawei committed bank fraud by violating...
January 29, 2019 @ 6:50 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, You May Have Missed |
Goes to show you that if you lower expectations enough, you can beat them when you actually report earnings. Even if the earnings report itself is bad news. After the close of the New York market today, Apple (AAPL) reported December quarter earnings of $4.18 a share...
December 10, 2018 @ 6:04 pm | Breaking News, Volatility |
U.S. stocks after being deep in the red this morning, came roaring back this afternoon. Or at least technology shares did. The Standard and Poor’s 500, which had been as low as 2583 today, climbed back to close at 2637. The swing from high of the day to low was...
November 20, 2018 @ 7:57 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
If you own any of the big technology stocks that led the U.S. higher in the first eight months of 2018, the losses over the last six weeks sure make this feel like a bear market. Remember that the classical definition of a bear market is a drop from the high of 20% or...
October 26, 2018 @ 6:05 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
The major U.S. indexes opened the day strongly lower on disappointing earnings news and guidance from Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG) after the market close yesterday. But the markets reversed in the morning–the low for the day for the Standard &...
September 5, 2018 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News, Volatility, You May Have Missed |
I think today’s market downturn is nothing more or less than profit taking. It’s not surprising that investors and traders would sell Amazon (AMZN), for example, today (down 2.19%) since the shares were up 11.6% for the past 30 days as of September 4. The...
July 30, 2018 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News |
The U.S. stock market has picked up where it left off last week. Investors and traders are selling technology. Today as of 2:30 p.m. New York the big disappointers from last week are down heavily. Twitter (TWTR) is lower by 7.63%, Netflix (NFLX) is down 4.91%, and...
May 10, 2018 @ 6:42 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NVDA, Update |
Okay, if you’re a trader I sort of understand selling Nvidia (NVDA) after today’s earnings report: Sell on the news; How can it get better? How long can the company keep it up? After all, the stock closed today just pennies below it’s all time high....
April 5, 2018 @ 6:35 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Yesterday Apple (AAPL) announced that it had hired John Giannandrea, the architect behind Google Assistant, to take its Siri digital assistant from disappointing to amazing again. (Or at least to make it a credible challenger to Amazon’s Alexa and Google...
March 19, 2018 @ 7:00 pm | Breaking News |
As of 11:30 a.m. New York time this morning, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock index was down 1.15%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.02%. And the technology heavy NASDAQ was lower by 1.84%. Much of the talk this morning has centered on news from...