Germany’s Sunday legislative election of Social Democrat and former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier should not change the market horizon much. The left-of-center German president-elect, won 931 of the available 1,239 votes from the Bundestag lower house and representatives of its 16 federal states chiefly owing to the inability of the more conservative Christian Democrats to agree on a candidate of their own. Read More

Shares of USA Technologies (USAT) jumped 20% Thursday after it released its second quarter earnings report. The company booked a gain of 1 cent per share instead of an expected loss of the same magnitude, which triggered an immediate buying frenzy in the stock. Since then it has pulled… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Major U.S. stock indexes have again set new highs thanks to President Trump’s promise of a “phenomenal” tax plan, likely full of cuts for businesses and… Read More

President Trump’s executive orders so far, while politically controversial, don’t have a significant near-term economic impact. However, one political event we are monitoring closely across the Atlantic is the upcoming European elections. Read More

Teradyne (NYSE: TER), a leading maker of semiconductor testing equipment, is less known than other semiconductor sector stocks such as Intel and Texas Instruments. But because every electronic component made needs to be tested, Teradyne plays a central role in the chip sector.  Moreover, because demand for its testing products… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Job gains in the first month of 2017 were strong. The U.S. Department of Labor reported this morning that 227,000 were added to payrolls in January, easily trouncing economist… Read More

The Federal Open Market Committee concluded its first policy-setting meeting of 2017 today. Janet Yellen and her lieutenants voted to keep the benchmark federal funds rate at a target range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent. After the quarter-percentage point hike in December, and with uncertainty surrounding the new president’s… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days In his first week in office, President Trump has followed through with some of his most notable campaign pledges. One of the executive orders he signed, perhaps the one… Read More

Less than a week since Inauguration Day, President Trump has signed a number of executive orders. Perhaps the one so far with the longest potential ramifications is the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal still in negotiation phase that he inherited from Obama. The new president also plans to… Read More