Jun 23, 2017 | Investments, Wealth Management
The impact of Amazon buying Whole Foods on other food retailers such as Kroger, Walmart, Costco etc. has been dissected ad nauseam in news over the past week. But, this deal has stirred up secondary effects on other companies. Walmart is now telling its vendors that...
Jun 20, 2017 | Investments
As we enter the 8th year of the bull market, confidence in Wall Street is at an all time high. Market downturn is a distant memory. In academic circles, this optimism is called recency bias. Just as we expect Steph Curry to nail his next three pointer because he...
Jun 10, 2017 | Investments
The president’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement hardly impacted the stock indices this week. But, the uproar from the biggest names in technology — from Apple to Amazon, Google, Tesla among others — has only begun. Many believe that...
Jun 3, 2017 | Investments
Traditional lunch eateries are finding it hard to survive as increasingly consumers are eating out less, bringing leftovers or simply buying lunch “to go” and taking it back to their office desks. The one hour lunch breaks that fostered the quaint custom of office...
May 23, 2017 | Investments
With Q1 2017 corporate earnings season pretty much done, both earnings and revenue growth numbers have been impressive. Earnings per share (EPS) growth of 14.9% was the highest growth rate since Q3 2011. The revenue growth rate came in at 7.8 percent, marking the...
May 6, 2017 | Investments, Wealth Management
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is widely regarded as the barometer of blue chip stocks and becoming a part of the DJIA is a validation for any publicly listed company. But, Amazon, which has been public for nearly 20 years and has forced a number of...
