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TAP TIMES March 2022
Volume 13, Number 3
Test, Assembly & Packaging TIMES
Semiconductor stocks: Buy low, sell high!
ne week a stock is
hot; the next it’s not.
That, dear reader, is
the nature of the glob-
al securities markets.
When buying stocks
— especially those in
the semiconductor
indus-try — the best
O and perhaps the only
valid advice is “Buy t
low, sell high.” The author of that tru-
ism is unknown, but he (or she) was What stock will be the next Amazon or that rises from a few dol-
lars a share into the stratosphere? The charts know! (Pixabay)
obviously a stock market genius. International Harvester. He also had par-
tial or total control of 21 railroads, from
Ron Iscoff, Editor which he derived his robber baron sobri-
Crusty John Pier- quet .
pont Morgan was
the founder of The Market? “It will fluctuate”
the J.P. Morgan & When Morgan was asked what the stock
Co. empire, which market would do, he is said to have re-
after nearly 1,200 sponded, “It will fluctuate.”
acquistions and
amalgamations If Morgan, who died in 1913, were alive
became JP Morgan today in the Semiconductor Age, he might
Chase. He knew a have replied, “It will fluctuate wildly and
thing or two about unexplainably!”
stocks.
That brings us to today. Everybody wants
Gilded Age icon to pick the next NVIDIA, the next Apple
Morgan was a or the next Amazon before it becomes a
J.P. Morgan, titan of the Gilded banker, financier, multi-billion dollar company.
Age, with his son J.P. Morgan Jr. broker and robber
baron in America’s Gilded Age. If your father had bought 100 shares of an
imaging company known as Haloid in April
In addition to the J.P. Morgan empire, he next page
founded U.S. Steel, General Electric and Advertisement
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