One Man's Opinion Let’s see if STBB is for you. You’re basically bullish on the stock market, and you have a nice chunk of cash handy that you hate to see withering away in your bank, earning squat. You are going out of the country on an extended business trip, and you have no time to futz with your portfolio. Well, you and I are in the same boat. So I decided to share my most recent STBB short-term portfolio concept with followers to my reinvigorated Young’s World Money Forecast, first launched in 1978. Young’s World Money Forecast never died. It simply went on a 40-year … [Read more...]
Equifax Breach: How Did it Happen? What Does it Mean?
When a company's business is solely devoted to collecting your most valuable information, you would hope that its security is up to the challenge of a world full of criminal hackers looking to exploit your data for their gain. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with Equifax. The company allowed months to go by before plugging a known hole in its security. The WSJ reports: On March 8, researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. reported an online security flaw that allowed hackers to break into servers around the internet. Cisco urged users to upgrade their systems immediately with a newly issued … [Read more...]
This is One of the Most Conservative Stocks in the World
Nestle is adding to its coffee business with an acquisition of the high-end coffee roaster and retailer Blue Bottle Coffee. The Wall Street Journal reported on it here. The acquisition is a small one for Nestle, but it is a savvy move to remain competitive and relevant in the food business. Change is afoot in the packaged foods industry. Brands that have dominated the industry for decades are under assault. Changing consumer tastes and shifting media consumption patterns are eroding the competitive position of branded packaged foods companies. Nestle’s Strategy for a New Environment As … [Read more...]
What Will it Take to Win Amazon’s HQ2?
In the Wall Street Journal, Li Yuan tells readers of the lengths the Chinese city of Wuhan took to attract Xiaomi, a tech hardware manufacturer. Wuhan offered tax breaks, rebates, financing, R&D funding and more to Xiaomi to win its new facilities. Cities looking to attract Amazon's new headquarters will surely be forced to roll out such lavish incentives. The new facility will offer 50,000 jobs to the community that ultimately hosts it. Yuan writes that those incentives may also bring leaders under fire for criticism: Wuhan’s zeal illustrates the resources and political will that … [Read more...]
Apple’s iPhone: Food for Thought
Is there an Apple without the iPhone? With the bulk of sales coming from iPhones, Apple is dependent on the smartphones to keep growing. The new iPhone X is an attempt to keep the momentum by offering a more advanced phone at a higher price point. This is new territory for Apple, but necessary to fend off threats from Samsung and other competitors. Tripp Mickle reports at the WSJ: Rivals such as Samsung have matched or leapfrogged ahead of Apple’s smartphone features, introducing larger displays using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology and water resistance before Apple did. … [Read more...]
Did You Miss the Boat on the British Pound?
The pound is rallying today on news of a more hawkish Bank of England and comments from the European Union President that there won’t be a hard Brexit for England. Young Research turned bullish on the pound in the spring. The pound is up a few percentage points since then, but with a supportive technical backdrop and strength in the euro upside potential remains. … [Read more...]
How Will Autonomous Cars Deal With Aggressive Drivers?
One of the biggest questions facing companies developing self-driving cars is what to do about living drivers who don't obey the rules. How does a car, pre-programmed to follow all the rules, negotiate with a driver who is breaking them? Ford is working around such problems by adding signals and communications to its vehicles to negotiate such encounters. The Washington Post reports: Andy Schaudt is an invisible man. He is wearing a “seat suit” to make it look like his Ford Transit Connect van is driving itself. His bespectacled face is obscured by a fake headrest hood. His torso is … [Read more...]
Benny’s to Close Stores
A cornerstone of New England retail, Benny's, is going out of business. After serving New England shoppers since the 1920s, the Bromberg family has decided it's time to close up shop. Emily Clark reports in the Patriot Ledger on the death of yet another brick and mortar retail institution: On Friday, the company announced that it will close all 31 of its stores in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. At the Benny’s in Raynham, shoppers crowded the aisles the day after the announcement. Customer George Cayton said the news for him was personal. He worked at the store when he was a … [Read more...]
These 9 Dow Stocks are Offering You a Bribe, Take It
There are 9 Dow stocks currently paying 3% or more. (See which stocks I'm talking about in my new "Dow Lab") Not one of these top 2017 cash flow winners for shareholders is in the top 12 Dow stock price performers for the year. What we are looking at in 2017 is a "follow the leader" momentum based market move completely untethered from the long term anchor of dependable cash flow for shareholders. I cannot think of a more dangerous signal for serious money. As of Sept 2017, all investors should be concentrating on companies that bribe today’s stockholders with a yield of more than 3% … [Read more...]
Amazon Will Join the Tech Headquarters Arms Race
In the arms race to have the largest, most ostentatious tech headquarters of all, Jeff Bezos wants in. With Apple's Spaceship nearly up and running, and Google working in its moon-base-like dome called Charleston East, and the workforce of Facebook settling in nicely to their Menlo Park garden-roofed campus, Amazon wants to get in on the new headquarters action. James Mackintosh writes that the roll out of new headquarters is the latest warning sign for investors. He explains that high capital spending is usually a sign of pending under-performance. The list of warning signals for … [Read more...]
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