by Clinton Lee | Dec 16, 2020 | Bauman Daily, Global Economy, Global Trade, international stocks, Investing
“There aren’t enough new cars,” read the title of a recent Bloomberg report. Auto factories haven’t been able to keep up with the rebound in consumer demand. It’s a sentiment other manufacturing industries are echoing as well. That’s because of a double-whammy impact....
by Ted Bauman | Oct 6, 2020 | Bauman Daily, Global Economy, Investing, Stocks
Warren Buffett is known for his pithy guidelines to playing the stock market. One of his best-known — though hardly original — is “buy low, sell high.” But how do you know when the market is “low” or “high?” The Oracle of Omaha has an answer to this one, too....
by Ted Bauman | Aug 25, 2020 | Bauman Daily, Global Economy, Investing, Investment Opportunities, Stocks
Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true. Chinese President Xi Jinping may want to keep that in mind. Xi has engineered a sharp reversal of the policies of his predecessor, Deng Xiaoping, who sought to strengthen China by modernizing it. Deng’s approach was...
by Angela Jirau | May 18, 2020 | Bauman Daily, Global Economy, Investment Opportunities, Technology
Anyone still optimistic about U.S.-China relations got a rude awakening on Friday morning. First, there was the news that Washington will ban China’s flagship tech firm Huawei Technologies Co. from buying critical U.S. products. But there was an even more important...