The Money Runner
Aljazeera America – Jobs – Apple vs. Samsung
http://youtu.be/uorYwtGDuPI David talks to Aljazeera host Morgan Kelly Radford on a range of issues including Jobs and the low labor participation rate. Morgan turns the tables and moves on to the battle between Apple & Samsung. David says this is Steve Job’s Holy War against Google.
Climbing the Wall – April 2014 Alpha Select Update
Alpha Select – April 2014 Update *Alpha Select – MTD (-0.11%) YTD +2.80% **S&P 500 – MTD +0.62% YTD +2.53% * Net of Fees ** Includes Dividends By David Nelson After starting off the month with a push to all-time highs markets quickly headed south and by mid-month were down close to 4%. Even confirmed […]
Gilead’s (GILD) $1000 Pill
By David Nelson, CFA Gilead (GILD) was ground zero for the Biotech sell-off. The sector is down about 25% from its highs made earlier in the year and now (GILD) may be where the sector makes its stand. Unlike Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA) and others that have been hit hard by the recent […]
Panic In Needle Park – Janet Yellen “The Dealer” to the Rescue
By David Nelson, CFA It’s been seven years since I referenced Al Pacino’s first movie “Panic in Needle Park.” In August of that year I wrote an article for Minyanville discussing the Fed’s injection of funds into the financial system. This was of course the early days of the mortgage crisis which later morphed into […]
Climbing the Wall of Worry – Alpha Select Update for March 2014
By David Nelson, CFA Investors certainly climbed the Wall of Worry this month shrugging off a Russian invasion, China’s Debt Bubble and a Fed Head who stumbled in her debut performance before the press. Despite these concerns markets sit just shy of all-time highs. My post over the weekend, The Worm Has Turned talked about the […]
The Magnificent Seven of Old Tech
By David Nelson, CFA In the last few days we’ve seen a massive rotation from the market’s biggest winners to what investors refer to as Old Tech. For those of you not in the markets long enough to remember the Magnificent Seven, there was a time when (AAPL), (INTC), (MSFT), (IBM), (ORCL), (CSCO), & (EMC) […]
Good News – Rates Going Higher!
By David Nelson, CFA Let me go right to the heart of it. If you’re invested in equities because you believe the Fed isn’t going to raise rates until 2016, then you should dump stocks right now. The normalization of interest rates has never been a question of IF but WHEN. In less than 24 […]
