UBS has forecast that the emergence of inexpensive electric vehicle technology and stricter regulations on the pollution created by burning diesel will make cars powered by the fuel a thing of the past. Peter Campbell writes in the Financial Times: The falling costs of electric and hybrid vehicles will strip the fuel of its once-competitive price advantage, while tighter emissions regulation and soured public sentiment towards the fuel in the wake of the Volkswagen scandal will see its global share of car sales fall from 13.5 per cent to just 4 per cent by 2025, the bank predicts. In … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2016
How to Know When to Buy Stocks
One of my favorite financial writers of all-time, the late, great Richard Russell would be making a huge call this week in his Dow Theory Letters. Why? Because on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Transportation Average reached a new record high—previously set in 2014—and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also hit a record high. According to Dow Theory, if the transports stocks, such as railroad, shipping, delivery trucks etc., which move the goods that are used to produce things, are hitting new highs and at the same time the industrial stocks that make the end product are also hitting new highs, … [Read more...]
The Best Performing Dow Stock Since the Election
This is disturbing. Since the surprise victory of Donald Trump, who of course ran as a populist, the best performing stock in the Dow is Goldman Sachs—the everyman New York investment bank. In the words of Matt Taibbi, Goldman is a “vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Let’s hope the recent price action in Goldman shares isn’t an indicator of the bank’s influence in Washington over the next four years. … [Read more...]
Fidelity Investments: 6 Simple Habits to a Better Life
You need a plan. That’s my #1 takeaway from Fidelity’s “Six Habits of Successful Investors.” One of the most common problems I come across when speaking with prospective clients of Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., is their lack of a plan. A lot of times they own good stuff. But they don’t know how everything fits together. Picture this: You’ve set up a room full of presents, your family is anxiously awaiting by the fire, and you forgot to label the gifts. That’s how it feels to own good stuff without a plan. The power of investing to build wealth and achieve long-term goals has been proven … [Read more...]
Have Small-Cap Stocks Gone too Far?
Small-cap stocks continue their end of the year tear. From their November low, small-caps are up over 17%. Small-caps have rallied this much this fast a few times over the last three and half decades, but it was most often following a big-sell off or bear market. Small-caps may be higher a year from now, but overbought is probably an understatement at these levels. Note the two horizontal lines on the chart represent plus and minus two standard deviations. … [Read more...]
IoT a World Wide Competitive Advantage Game-Changer
Here ibm.com breaks the compelling story of how USA Cycling is harnessing the awesome power of the Internet of Things (IoT). USA Cycling Women’s Team Pursuit has joined forces with Watson IoT, IBM Analytics, and IBM jStart to incorporate real-time data analytics from the internet of things into their training. Before the USA Cycling teamed up with IBM Watson IoT and IBM Analytics, coaches would spend hours after every practice processing power meter and other disparate information, loading the data into spreadsheets, analyzing what could be helpful for tomorrow’s training session and how … [Read more...]
Portfolio Strategy: Groceries at Amazon.com? How to Lose Money
Wouldn’t your life be easier if the kitchen cabinets and the fridge magically replenished themselves? That’s the thrust behind Amazon’s move into grocery home delivery. Take it from me, the financing runway will have to be pretty long for Amazon to be successful in this business. Grocery home delivery is where I cut my teeth in the investment world. I remember learning that difficult lesson about Internet investing after spending the summer of my junior year at Babson as an intern for a grocery home delivery startup company. When the job was done, I liked the idea so much that I invested my … [Read more...]
The Internet of Things Will Revolutionize the World.
Writing at HPE Matter, Meg Whitman unfolds a revolutionary technology concept that will change the world. Ms. Whitman predicts that it will affect nearly two-thirds of global GDP. We’re beginning to see a world where everything is connected and everything computes, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). Behind the scenes, in almost every industry, massive efforts are underway to connect our physical and digital worlds, unleashing what many are calling the next Industrial Revolution. The potential is so great, a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report predicts that, within the next 10 … [Read more...]
This is How to Collect Special Dividends
Bank shares used to be a reliable source of dividends, but following the global financial crisis, the Fed and other bank regulators put the brakes on the payout ratio of America’s biggest banks. Today, the payout ratio on America’s big banks has a soft limit at 30%. To get around the 30% payout limit of regulators, the big banks are now considering paying special dividends. The Wall Street Journal has the story. Two of the nation’s most prominent bankers on Tuesday hinted at higher dividends in the future, especially if bank stocks keep rising. This is mostly welcome news for investors, … [Read more...]
Can You Guess This Big Secret about the Internet of Things?
Today the Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting a vast array of new devices to the web, and produces mountains of data that designers, manufacturers and consumers can use to improve their products’ experience. But the big secret about the IoT isn’t how devices can communicate with people—it’s how they can now communicate with one another. A great example of this inter-device communication is the ability of new Audi vehicles to communicate with traffic lights in Las Vegas, telling them how much longer the driver will need to wait at the intersection before proceeding. Vehicle to … [Read more...]
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