Back to top

Image: Bigstock

Zacks Market Edge Highlights: Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet, Baidu and Alibaba

Read MoreHide Full Article

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – May 15, 2019 – Zacks Market Edge is a podcast hosted weekly by cks Stock Strategist Tracey Ryniec. Every week, Tracey will be joined by guests to discuss the hottest investing topics in stocks, bonds and ETFs and how it impacts your life. To listen to the podcast, click here:

Please use the Soundcloud link from this URL for the PR. Thanks:  https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/413995/investing-strategies-for-the-trade-war)

Investing Strategies for the Trade War

Welcome to Episode #177 of the Zacks Market Edge Podcast.

Every week, host and Zacks stock strategist, Tracey Ryniec, will be joined by guests to discuss the hottest investing topics in stocks, bonds and ETFs and how it impacts your life.

In this episode, Tracey is joined by Zacks Chief Equity Strategist, John Blank, to discuss the escalation of the trade tensions between the United States and China.

Now that the United States has instituted the 25% tariffs, and China has retaliated with tariffs of their own, what are the implications for the global economy for the rest of this year?

Is a recession looming?

John’s answer might surprise you.

Wall Street: “Sell Now, Buy Back in Later”

For stock investors, however, it’s a tough environment.

Wall Street hates uncertainty. For now, Wall Street is selling and going to the sidelines. But at some point, the sentiment will change.

Investors will want to get back in.

Where do you hide out in the meantime?

Strategies for Stock Investing During a Trade War

There’s something to be said for having your business banned in China: you’re not impacted by trade tensions.

American social media and Internet stocks, with no direct business in China, might be a place to hide out. Those would be names like Facebook Twitter and Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) .  

Additionally, investors could go the opposite route and buy Chinese stocks with no direct business in the United States, like Chinese Internet giant Baidu (BIDU - Free Report) .

But what about the big international stocks like Alibaba (BABA - Free Report) ? There’s a lot of uncertainty as to what a trade war might do to its business if the Chinese economy slows.

What other industries should you be buying, or avoiding, over the next few months?

Find out on this week’s podcast.

[In full disclosure, the author of this article owns shares of FB and GOOGL in her personal portfolio.]

Breakout Biotech Stocks with Triple-Digit Profit Potential

The biotech sector is projected to surge beyond $775 billion by 2024 as scientists develop treatments for thousands of diseases. They’re also finding ways to edit the human genome to literally erase our vulnerability to these diseases.

Zacks has just released Century of Biology: 7 Biotech Stocks to Buy Right Now to help investors profit from 7 stocks poised for outperformance. Our recent biotech recommendations have produced gains of +98%+119% and +164% in as little as 1 month. The stocks in this report could perform even better.

See these 7 breakthrough stocks now>>

Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/zacksresearch

Join us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Zacks-Investment-Research/57553657748?ref=ts

Zacks Investment Research is under common control with affiliated entities (including a broker-dealer and an investment adviser), which may engage in transactions involving the foregoing securities for the clients of such affiliates.

Media Contact

Zacks Investment Research

800-767-3771 ext. 9339

support@zacks.com

https://www.zacks.com/performance

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.


See More Zacks Research for These Tickers


Normally $25 each - click below to receive one report FREE:


Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) - free report >>

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) - free report >>

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) - free report >>

Published in