It is better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price – Warren Buffett, 1989 Letter to Shareholders The advent of value investing occurred with the publication of Ben Graham and…
The market was cruising along until a weak 20 year treasury auction in the middle of the day Wednesday sent interest rates soaring and stocks stumbling. Early Friday President Trump spooked markets once again by calling for a 50% tariff…
I have been going back and forth over the last week or two: Bear Market Rally or Correction In An Ongoing Bull Market? In the wake of the strong bullish reaction to Google’s (GOOG/GOOGL) 1Q25 earnings report on Thursday April…
Wednesday night I suggested that 5,650 might be the limit for the S&P if the recent bounce is in fact a bear market rally. And that’s exactly how things played out in Thursday’s session with the S&P reaching a high…
It’s been quite a rally the last few weeks as Trump has walked back the outrageous tariffs he announced on Liberation Day and 4 of The Magnificent 7 have reported solid earnings over the last week. 5,500 represents a significant…
The narrative over the last few weeks has been that the defeat of inflation will allow The Fed to cut rates in September has resulted in a rotation out of Mega-Cap Tech (QQQ) and into Small Caps (IWM) which will…
The S&P surged 64 points (1.26%) on Friday to 5,128 – right up to its 50 DMA (5,130). The 50 DMA continues to serve as resistance and the S&P continues to trade in a range (4950 – 5250) defined by…
If you would have given me Apple’s (AAPL) earnings report before it came out, I would have told you that the stock would be down – possibly by a lot. Because it was decidedly mediocre. And yet it’s +6% in…
Obviously the most important event on tap Thursday is Apple (AAPL) earnings after the close. While the stock is off more than 10% YTD, it is still quite overvalued given the lack of growth IMO. In his piece on AAPL…
As I suggested late afternoon last Thursday, the most likely scenario was for the S&P to gap up to near its 50 DMA in the wake of strong Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) earnings and then trade sideways for the…