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

President Trump wasted no time in increasing the potential for healthcare disruption on his first day in office. Within a few hours of being inaugurated he signed an executive order that gives the heads of federal agencies whose jurisdictions are related to Obamacare what sounds like carte blanche to reshape… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Earlier today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. In his inaugural address, President Trump stuck to his usual plain,… Read More

These benefits also say a lot about a firm’s readiness for primetime. Read More