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Apple stocks (AAPL) broke Ichimoku cloud for the primary bearish market condition with 109.97 level as the next bearish target. "This past October 26, Dialog Semiconductor (which derives a large portion of revenues from Apple AAPL -0.89%) reported results in Germany before the opening bell that were worse than anticipated and then went on to lower guidance for the December quarter.""That day shares of Apple opened down about 1% before ending the day lower by 3.2% as investors ...
The Federal Reserve Explained In 7 Minutes Chair Janet Yellen grabbed everyone’s attention this year when she implied that the Federal Reserve, aka the Fed, may raise interest rates for the first time in six years. The markets have been responding ever since, once again proving that the Fed holds a lot of the cards when it comes to the U.S. economy. But what exactly is the Fed? And how did it become so powerful? ...
It has been a month of tragedy and upheaval in Paris as a result of the terrorist attacks that killed 129 people throughout the city. What are the main points of the “Paris Outcome”? There are three elements, say London-based analysts E3G: The Paris Agreement: An enduring, legally binding treaty on climate action which contains emission reduction commitments from 187 countries starting in 2020. It will ...
McDonald's will not spin off its real estate through a real estate investment trust, the company said on Tuesday at its annual investor meeting. McDonald’s, which already has a heavily-franchised model, also announced on Tuesday that it aims to be 93% franchised by 2018, up from a previous target of 90%. In the long run, it wants to become 95% franchised. Additionally, it’s raising its dividend by 5% to 89 cents per share and upping its ...
Most of us have read classic value investing books such as the "The Intelligent Investor" by Ben Graham and "The Most Important Thing," by Howard Marks. We've enjoyed reading those classics and learned tremendously from them. Also bumped into a few unconventional books, however, that I think are worthwhile to read. Some of them are not necessarily directly value investing-related, but they certainly helped me in terms of better thinking as an investor. Here is the list and a brief summary of why ...