China – The Bad Boys of the CCP
China has had a pretty tough time of it recently, in terms of market performance. We think that this might provide for some opportunities to buy at prices that are more fair value than recent.
Fund Review: Jennison
Jennison, perhaps unsurprisingly, has had a super year with its tech heavy allocations. Ecommerce, payment systems and cloud computing have led it to its top tier ranking at Citywire.
Stock Research: Broadband Access to Rural Areas
With continued support for US infrastructure spending and increasing demand for broadband access in rural areas, this stock is poised to experience growth in 2021.
Trade Idea: Autonomous Driving
Large buyers of options accentuate the breakout in this stock today. As an emerging leader in AI for autonomous driving, the company has a longer term appeal for ESG and technology focused investors.
Friday Investment Talk: Dividends vs Growth Stocks, USD Weakness in 2021
Investors focused on dividends have completely missed the opportunities in growth stocks during the last 10 years. Will the USD fall in 2021, giving rise to non-US assets?
Seasonal Strategy Update: Election Years
Seasonality is problematic this year, likely due to the elections and politics around another COVID stimulus package. Still, time and history work for the strategy.
FRIDAY INVESTMENT TALK: COVID Property Trends, Abenomics and the EU, and the US Tech Sell Off
A Narrow Market in August
US stock markets continue to see an extreme concentration of interest in a small number of stocks. Does this signal an imminent sell off or will market participation broaden?
Friday Investment Talk: FAAMG, COVID Vaccines, Market Update
Concentration in the largest companies continues to increase. The top 5 US companies are now larger than all of Europe’s markets combined. Covid vaccinations are comining this fall. Which companies could gain and will people accept the new vaccine?
FRIDAY INVESTMENT TALK: Future Technologies, Russia, Growth to Value, AAII Sentiment, MELI
Again looking at the hot tech sector, the potential value to growth rotation, Russia as a value and dividend play, and some contrarian bullish indictaors for stocks while bonds are simply stretched very far. Mercado Libre (MELI) stock reports next week and BAML is out with a nice target price for the bulls.