Trading Ideas

Apple could be one of the biggest losers in a trade war between the United States and China. The New York Times reported Monday that the Trump administration had told Apple CEO Tim Cook that no tariffs would be placed on iPhones. There are few companies with more to lose than Apple in a trade war between the United States and China. …read more […]

The backlash against Silicon Valley is growing. Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, has some advice for the likes of Facebook and Google: Accept you’ve screwed up, and work with regulators to fix it. As Silicon Valley battles scandals and increasing regulatory scrutiny, Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has warned Facebook and Google not to make the same mistake Microsoft did. …read more […]

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Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) did it again. Strong earnings, and a stronger forecast from CEO Sanjay Mehotra, continued to power Micron stock upward, but bears won’t let it go past the fundamentals so the memory chip maker is still a buy. On June 20 Micron reported net income of $3.823 billion, $3.10 per share, on revenue of $7.8 billion for the quarter. This compares to earnings of $1.65 billion, $1.40 per share, and revenues of $5.56 billion a year ago. …read more […]

Some iPhone enthusiasts like to hack their own devices to apply tweaks and other unauthorized features.Apple says you shouldn’t do that. Not only can jailbreaking make your iPhone run worse, and leave it more vulnerable to hackers — it can make it ineligible for service at Apple stores. …read more […]

You’ve heard us say it before: Asset allocation is responsible for up to 90% of your long-term investment returns.

To get the most out of your portfolio, you need to sensibly divide it between U.S. stocks, foreign stocks, bonds, precious metals and other asset classes.

And as you can see from this week’s chart, classic cars are an unexpectedly good way to diversify your investments. In fact, they’ve beaten the S&P 500’s returns over the last decade.

How Classic Car Investing Works

A classic car is an example of a rare tangible asset – that’s a physical investment with aesthetic or collectible value.

Many cars …read more […]

Could you handle a 23% increase to your payroll tax liability? …read more […]

Is a big business takeover inevitable for the legal cannabis industry? …read more […]

These oil stocks not only have compelling catalysts on the horizon, but trade at bottom-of-the-barrel valuations. …read more […]

Perhaps one day first lady Melania Trump will use her own words to illuminate her fashion “don’t care” message. Tony European labels have been more Mrs. Trump’s de rigueur, until Thursday’s trip to a Texas center housing some of the more than 2,300 migrant children sent there after their families entered the U.S. illegally. When the first lady left Washington and returned, it was in the Zara jacket with the message heard ’round the interwebs scrawled graffiti-style in white block letters on the back. …read more […]

Recent Kaby Lake G benchmarks are worrisome for NVIDIA. …read more […]

Shares of the open-source software specialist plunged the day after a beat-and-raise quarterly report. That’s life in the fast lane. …read more […]

Here’s what sent these two large-cap retailers in opposite directions. …read more […]

California Senator Kamala Harris charged that the Trump administration had committed “crimes against humanity” after meeting at a U.S. detention center on Friday with immigrant mothers who had been separated from their children. Harris became the latest prominent Democrat to travel to the southern border as controversy rages over President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policy. On Wednesday, Trump made a rare retreat, signing an order that he said instructed federal immigration authorities to stop separating children from parents charged with unlawfully crossing the border, a misdemeanor. …read more […]

The automotive giant is bringing back the Chevrolet Blazer — which it hasn’t manufactured since 2005 — as part of an attempt to create SUVs in all shapes and sizes as Americans desire more personalized vehicles nowadays. The Blazer will be bigger than an Equinox but smaller than a Traverse. The new GM vehicle will not look like the old Blazer as it will instead be modeled after the original Blazer, which is designed to attract a younger audience. …read more […]