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Investors are worried because Gary Cohn, who is a Wall Street veteran, was opposed to the tariffs

President Donald Trump usually do the things he promise to do. He had long talked about tariffs, and earlier this week he said; “I have no choice.” His economic advisor Gary Cohn didn`t like that and announced retirement.

Mr Trump shocked the market last week with his decision to impose 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminium. Investors are worried because Gary Cohn, who is a Wall Street veteran, was opposed to the tariffs.

 

 

Gary Cohn is a former Goldman Sachs president and free trade advocate. He is the man who helped Mr Trump and his team at the White House to deliver historic tax cuts and reforms, but he clashed with Trump`s protectionist advisors on the issue of tariffs.

White House officially said that President Donald Trump will announce more details on the tariff proposal on Thursday this week.

In addition, there could be conversation this week around more trade actions.

European Union said they will target $3,5 billion of goods like motorcycles, T-shirts, whisky and jeans imported from the United States. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the trade bloc would “not sit idly” if Trump goes ahead with his tariffs.

President Trump warned the US would apply a tax on European cars if the bloc wants to increase tariffs on American companies. A statement the European automakers didn`t like at all.

The Volksvagen emissions scandal (Emissionsgate/dieselgate) began in September 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automakers Volkswagen Group.

Volkswagen pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges in a brazen scheme to get around US pollution rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles by using software to suppress emissions of nitrogen oxide during tests.

Assistant US attorney John Neal said it was a “calculated offence,” not a «monetary lapse of judgement».

In my recent articles, I have talked about Europe`s treatment of American companies. A bad treatment that has been going on for decades.

In 2001, the European Commission accused Microsoft of having illegally extended its dominans in operating systems for PC`s into adjacent markets, for tying Windows to programs that play music and videos.

The European Commission said Microsoft was too dominant in the market in 2001. They said the same about Google in 2016, claiming that Google was too dominant in the internet search market. Last year, they attacked the biggest company in the world: Apple.

Nucors CEO told CNBC last week that the presidents proposal was about treating Europe “exactly as they treat us.” So, who is the real elephant in the room?

President Trump has many times said that Europe are treating USA bad, and this has been going on for a long time now. It is clear to see that there has been a silent war going on, but Mr Trump is the one to do something with that.

The war between Europe and USA is not a secret anymore. This trade war is a zero sum game, and there is no winner. This is how the market was before the start of World War II. Now, the history seems to repeat itself. This can be very ugly.

In 2015, Russia marked 70 years since the victory over the Nazis with a spectacular parade in Moscow. Many Western leaders missed the event. USA is the one who stopped World War II.
<p align="LEFT"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Everybody in Greece are talking about Nazi-Europe. They know the history from WWII. Nazi Germany invaded Greece to assist its ally, Fascist Italy, which had been at war with Greece (Greco-Italien War) for about a year. </span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">The occupation ruined Greek economy. The Nazi occupation led to rampant inflation, and 200,000,000-drachma banknote were issued in 1944. They can
t do the same today, because they do not have its own currency. They have Euro.

What the Nazi`s did to Greece is a long list of crimes against humanity, and the truth cannot be hidden.

The Nazi`s burned down every house and dynamited the church in retaliation, but the Greeks were the first Europeans who won a victory against fascism.

The biggest party in Italy, The Five Star Movement, is Euroskeptic. So, are the Brexit voters. EU need to change its strategy very fast, because EU is very important but not the ugly part of it.

European Commisssion doubts justification for Trump tariffs. It is done under section 232, which refers to National security. European Commission cannot see how the allies is a threath to International Security in the United States.

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Broadcom can be the third largest chipmaker in the world

Samsung and Intel are big chip makers, but Broadcom can start to join the club of the best chip makers and end up being the third largest chipmaker in the world. But firsts they need to do one thing: acquire Qualcomm.

Broadcom is planning to buy Qualcomm for about $103 billion if the deal succeeds, and that will be the largest acquisition in tech history. Qualcomm are best known for the default system on a chip called SoC and cellular modem vendor in most smartphones.

Qualcomm is famous for its near minopoly on the high-end smart phone SoC market with its «Snapdragon» line of chips.

Snapdragon semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android and Windows Phone devices. They are also used for netbooks, in cars, wearable devices and other devices.

Snapdragon is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for mobile devices. The Snapdragon central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, and a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a wireless modem, and other software and hardware to support a smartphone`s global positioning system (GPS), camera, gesture recognition and video.

Samsung and Apple does not use Qualcomm`s operating system which means they are both competing with Qualcomm. Samsung have its own Exynos line system and Apple makes it sown SoC system for its iPhone and iPad.

But in the U.S, Samsung use Qualcomm chips only for this market and Apple has packaged a separate Qualcomm chip with the iPhone, but the company recently had the audacity to use an Intel modem in some iPhone models.

Broadcomm and Qualcomm combined will be big and that can make the prices go up. Google can do something with that. They want to improve its own Android, VR and AR and have sent a list of requests to other chip makers for future SoC designs. They also want to build its own processors.

According to Reuters, Broadcom Ltd made an unsolicited $103 billion bid for Qualcomm Inc on Monday.

Qualcomm`s share price skyrocketed before the dot-com-bubble. It reached nearly $90 but have never recovered. The stock has declined in two years from 2014 to 2016 and now it is trading at $62 on Monday.

It is another story for Broadcom. The stock has gone straight up since April 2016. On Monday, the stock reached an all-time high at $277.

 

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Google will launch its brand new phone Pixel 2 within a few weeks

It is a big day for Tim Cook and Apple today. The most expensive iPhone you`ve ever bought will be launched and that is happening ten years after its first release of their iPhone. That was then in 2007, but now it is 2017 and iPhone 8.

But Apple wont be long in heaven before I introduce another new phone on the market. Googles new release of their new phone called Google Pixel 2. Google Pixel and Pixel XL were both launched in October last year, so Pixel 2 will be launched next month, October 2017.

 

 

It isnt the most innovative product I have seen so far, but what I have seen is only leaked cases. The Pixel line is new and its building on the new defunct Nexus range. Apples new phone will be expensive, but you shouldnt expect Pixel 2 to be any cheaper than the old one.

The old one from Google started at about $650, so it was already expensive.

Rumors tells us that the new Google phone will be a curved screen with a 5,6 inch 18:9 display and a 2,560 x 1,312 resolution. With its use of AMOLED it will be very similar to Samsung Galaxy S8. Further more, it is rumored it will be a Snapdragon 835 chipset for all three Pixel 2 handsets.

The competition in the phone market increase and search giant not only face big competition from Apple but also from Xiaomi and Huawei. The last one remains Chinas top smart phone brand and Xiaomis sales are still climbing.

Xiaomi shipped 15 million phones during the quarter to rank fourth in China. That`s a 60% rise from Q1 2017. Huawei shipped 23 million ahead of brother-sister companies Oppo (21 million) and Vivo (16 million). Apple completed the top 5, having been leapfrogged by Xiaomi.

Xiaomi is the opposite of Apple with its price-conscious consumers. CEO Lei Jun hailed Xiaomi`s resurgence this year, calling it this most recent quarter «a major inflection point in our growth.»

«After two years of internal recalibration Xiaomi is once again embarking on a rapid growth trajectory,» Lei Jun told the press. He added that the company is aiming to reach 100 million phone sales in 2018.

Competition from Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Huawei are placing them all in the price-conscious to mid-range devices category. They are more likely to succeed in Asia than Google and Apple in the West.

 

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Apple have a cash hoard of $250 billion and enough software know-how to build great self-driving car technology

Apple is a big company with a market cap of $783,07 billion, and most of its success is coming from its flagship iPhone. CEO Tim Cook in May noted a «pause» in iPhone sales but Apple is expected to come out with a new and expensive iPhone in a few months.

It will be a super premium tenth-anniversary iPhone costing $1,000 or more, but that will not help the sales of their iPhone at the moment. In addition, the pause could also be delayed. Maybe into a new fiscal year.

 

 

What is an electric car actually? It is a smart phone with four wheels, because there aren`t much difference from an electric car and a smart phone. And who can enter the auto industry better than Apple?

Apple have everything they need to design a brand new electric car. They have more than enough much-needed software know-how and the company is already working with car companies on CarPlay. They have $150 billion of net cash and $50 billion of free cash flows annually.

Apple compete with Google and Microsoft and it will be very disruptive when they all enters the car industry with its brand new electric cars.

Whats funny to see is that these companies are not car companies but rather software companies. It speaks for itself. Apple is a strong brand with many fans worldwide, and Apple Car can take a large share in the auto market.

Tim Cook said in June this year that Apple has autonomous car ambitions. Apple is working to build self-driving car technology, referring to the endeavor as “the mother of all AI projects”.

But it seems like Google are leading. In December, Google launched Waymo, wich is “a new way forward in mobility.” So far, they have more than 2 million miles of public-roadway testing for its vehicles.

What will happen if Apple buy Tesla? They could quickly become a leader, but Elon Musk laughs off the idea of Apple buying Tesla. But earlier this year, Musk said “Never say never to Apple buying Tesla”.

Apple have a cash hoard of more than $250 billion, and that is giving them the opportunity to spend some of it for acquisitions or buybacks.

We know that Elon Musk earlier this year had a meeting with acquisitions chief at Apple and news regarding this case would be a bomb in the stock market.

Apple Inc is expected to report earnings on Tuesday August 01 after market close. Earnings forecast for the quarter is $1,57 versus $1,42 for the same quarter last year.

 

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iPhone is now 10 years old and on January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled a product that changed the world

iPhone is now 10 years old. On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled a product that changed the world. A few months later, on June 29, 2007 iPhone made its way into stores. Apple have changed dramatically since then.

Since the first generation iPhone first began selling on June 29, 2007, Apples market Cap has grown from $104,3 Billion to $760 Billion. Growing from the 26<sup>th</sup> largest company on the S&amp;P 500 to the 1<sup>st</sup>. Shares of Apple have soared 744% since the iPhones debut.

 

 

Apple has sold just over 1,2 Billion iPhones in the last 10 years.

Earlier this week the European Commission fined Google a $2,7 Billion, claiming it denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. They also claimed that Google denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefit of innovation.

What Europe should do is stop complaining and start to innovate. If there was a better search engine out there they will have competed with Google. The same can be said about the smart phone market too.

I acquired my first mobile phone in 1992 and it was a Ericsson which is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

The company had a 35% market share in the 2G/3G/4G mobile network infrastructure market in 2012. They were ruling the smart phone market in the early 90`s, but something happened.

Nokia from Finland came into the market and ruled the world with their new smart phones from 1998 to 2012. That`s 14 years on top. Not bad for a company founded by Knut Fredrik Idestam in 1865.

Keep in mind that both are European companies, but something happened.

Steve Jobs changed the world 10 years ago, on June 29, 2007. He launched Apple`s iPhone which is celebrating a 10 year anniversary. In 2007, iPhone 2G were launched with a 16GB storage and 8-hour battery.

Ten years later, iPhone 7 Plus were launched with a 256GB storage and 21-hours battery. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said on April 29, 2007, that “There`s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No Chance.”

For how long will Apple continue to stay on top?

 

 

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