How does a company navigate this tariff mess? Apple gets tariff waivers on 10 Chinese parts but not on 5 others.
Today, Monday, September 30, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative denied Apple's (AAPL) request for relief from 25% tariffs on the optional wheels for the Mac Pro, a circuit board for managing input and output ports, power adapter, charging cable and a cooling...
Did Tuesday’s Apple event signal a shift to new and lower iPhone pricing model?
The new workhorse of the Apple iPhone lineup, the iPhone 11 starts at $699. That's down from the $749 price of the iPhone XR last year. The XR wound up accounting for about 50% iPhone unit sales. The iPhone XR remains in the lineup but the price goes to $599. That's a...
On Apple, Wall Street says, Wait ’til next year
The new products Apple (AAPL) introduced today aren't bad. The successors to the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max add more cameras, a faster chip (on the iPhone 11 successor to the XR), and longer battery life. It's just that none of these new features are...
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
...lots of speculation on what the Federal Reserve will do and say about interest rates next week on September 18. What has become the routine squeaking and squawking about the U.S.-China trade war/trade talks. More fun and games from London (where the legal opinion...
Apple sketches in September product launches–will they be enough?
Two big clouds of doubt hover over shares of Apple (AAPL). First, will the continuing U.S.-China trade war take another bite out of Apple's China revenue? And/Or disrupt Apple's China supply chain, saddling the company with higher tariffs on its made in China iPhones?...
Justice Department to step up antitrust scrutiny of Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple
According to the Wall Street Journal this afternoon, the Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition. "The new antitrust inquiry is the strongest signal yet of Attorney General...
In the shortish short term does anything matter for U.S. financial markets except for the Fed?
Think about it this way: The bulk of investors and traders believe that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at both the July 31 and September 18 central bank meetings. A significant minority believes that the Fed will deliver more than just two 25 basis point...
Apple contemplates moving some production from China–but not back to the United States
President Donald Trump has argued that slapping higher tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States would bring jobs back to this country--if China didn't agree to a new trade deal--as companies moved factories in order to avoid the higher tariffs. According...
FANG techs (plus more) fall on news of investigations
Both Congress and government regulators are taking aim at big tech. The House Judiciary Committee is planning an investigation into whether digital platform companies are using their market power to harm competition. The Federal Trade Commission is taking the lead in...
Down yesterday, up today–traders buy the chip stocks they sold yesterday on Huawei headlines
Stocks--especially chip stocks--have rallied strongly today on headlines saying that the Department of Commerce has granted a 90-day license for U.S. companies to do business with China's Huawei Technologies in order to service existing networks. This is especially...
Why did Apple settle with Qualcomm now? Can you say 5G?
Why did Apple settle a dispute that had dragged on for two years with Qualcomm now?How about because troubles at Intel threatened to leave Apple without the 5G modem chips it needed for a new 5G iPhone?
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