Markets are looking up thanks to some positive headlines on the trade front, but our call of the day says investors need to be prepared for anything that...
Markets continue to hang on every word of Beijing-U.S. trade developments, with a report the U.S. and China have agreed to cancel tariffs on each other in phases setting up a bullish Thursday for stocks.
“How does one construct a portfolio for that? You basically want to own companies as if things hit the fan,” he said. That is, high quality companies with “significant competitive advantage, high recurrence of revenue, very little debt,” and whose business isn’t tied to the economy’s health. Katsenelson periodically writes opinion for MarketWatch. His latest views on Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and electric carmaker Tesla can be read here.
Shares of Baidu BIDU, -0.64% are climbing after the Chinese technology group beat revenue forecasts. Roku ROKU, +1.06% shares are slumping after news of a sharply higher loss for the maker of video-streaming hardware. WW International, formerly Weight Watchers WW, -14.82%
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