Market Scorecard After the initial shock from Trump's anti-trade talk on Monday evening, the markets recovered as the day went on to finish the session in the green. Most books on negotiating say that your first offer needs to be a low one, and then work from there. Remember Trump and Xi are meeting … Continue reading Why Diversify
Market Scorecard I was thinking this morning about a time earlier this year where it got boring writing about new record highs each day. We are now at the other end of the spectrum, where most days are down days. Our local market is down around 13% this year, but it could be worse, … Continue reading JNJ goes Woke
Market Scorecard Did you see that Japan and the EU, have just signed the biggest trade deal ever! Japan, EU Sign Trade Deal to Eliminate Nearly All Tariffs; the deal covers nearly a third of the global economy and over 600 million people. A big win for free trade proponents. As the US alienates … Continue reading Netflix and Hold
Market Scorecard Focus over the last two days has been on the airstrikes in Syria. One side says all their missiles hit their targets, the other says most of the missiles were shot down. Rule number one in politics, choose the 'truth' that best suits you. More pressing for markets is China giving dates … Continue reading Healthy Numbers From JNJ
To market to market to buy a fat pig. Phew, we survived super earnings Thursday. Given their huge growth rates, coupled with high expectations, tech stocks are always the most exciting earning events. It has been known to happen where a tech stock, particularly those belonging to 'FANG', can rocket 20% or slump 20% … Continue reading Swipechain
To market to market to buy a fat pig. Earnings galore coming from the US. What a time to be alive! Not because companies are releasing earnings, they do that every quarter. But because the earnings coming through are looking fantastic. Alphabet (Google) grew sales by 24% off a massive base. This equated to … Continue reading This Elephant can Dance
"He (Robert Johnson) went into business with a fellow called Seabury, back in 1873, selling medicated plasters. In other words, the precursor to the bandaid. In a few short years they were a global business, Robert promptly went to the World Fair in Philadelphia in 1876, where a large gathering of doctors (the biggest in … Continue reading Big Johnson
"The business more importantly over time has taken control over production during the last few years, everything from tomato paste to fries to muffins to cheese. All big inputs where they can control the quality of the products, and more importantly, for the franchise owners not to get worried about the product delivery and stock. … Continue reading Dine for the Bottom Line
"On Tuesday the company released first quarter numbers for 2017. Sales increased by 1.6% to $18.8bn, $9.4bn of that was in the US, $3.9bn in Europe, $3.1bn in Asia and Africa and $1.4bn in the Western Hemisphere excluding the US. This is a pretty decent sales mix. I always get encouraged when US companies still … Continue reading Healthy Numbers
"JNJ suggests that this will add 35 to 40 cents EPS immediately. And it will "use" a lot of external US cash, this company is in Switzerland. The expectations are for growth rates to be 1.5 to 2 percent above the long term consensus. I think that this is good for JNJ, which is the … Continue reading JNJ Handling the Pressure
