Yesterday, for the first time ever, a Chinese head of state—Xi Jinping—spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He delivered the opening address. Ironically perhaps, the leader of the largest communist country in the world spoke in defense of globalization and free trade. Of course,… Read More

Online education understandably gets a bad rap, making most people thinking of high pressure enrollment tactics, diploma bills and government intervention. You can’t really blame people for thinking that way: University of Phoenix, the largest player in online education, has been the subject of multiple investigations and Corinthian Colleges was… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 20.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.0% Average Holding Period: 306 days Cyber security was in national focus this week as President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference since his election largely revolved around the topic. Accusations that the Russians had meddled… Read More

Less than ten days before inauguration, the president-elect held his first press conference since the summer. First and foremost on his mind: cyber security. Of course, the accusations that Russian hackers interfered in the U.S. election offers some explanation why cyber security was a key topic in today’s conference, but… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days Today we saw the first government job report for the New Year. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report showed that nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 156,000… Read More

This afternoon the U.S. Federal Reserve released the minutes from its mid-December Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, during which the policymakers raised the benchmark federal funds rate for the first time in a year, by one quarter of one percent. The minutes show that Fed officials… Read More

Web.com (NSDQ: WEB) has made a big gain over the past month, following a successful Investor Day presentation.In our December issue, Jim Pearce named the company has one of our top picks for 2016 as it refocuses on the higher end of the web development and hosting market. It’s also… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 21.2% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 17.1% Average Holding Period: 300 days In the final trading day of 2016, the S&P 500 finished the year at 2238.83 and logged its third-consecutive daily loss. After setting a record closing-high… Read More

2017 fast approaches. Prospective tax cuts and possible infrastructure spending will likely face us, along with important developments in the cyber space. We believe that it will be no problem to deal with the upside. The downside risks, on the other hand, can be life changers. Many investors out there… Read More