November 30, 2018 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Friday this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. Gold futures...
November 30, 2018 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
Take your pick. Either story shows the deep stress in China's banking system at a time when China's economy is already slowing. Story 1: After trying to regulate the Peer to Peer lending industry, Beijing has decided to shut down most of the $176 billion market,...
November 30, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
It's only an advisory group with no decision-making power, but the recommendation from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Economic Commission Board is the first step in changing production policy at OPEC & Friends. Today the group told OPEC oil...
November 29, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
China's purchasing managers index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector continued to slump in November, overnight data showed. The index dropped to 50, the level that marks the divide between expansion (above 50) and contraction (below 50.) The new export orders...
November 29, 2018 | Daily JAM |
Released Thursday afternoon, the minutes from the November 7-8 Federal Reserve meeting confirmed the on-going debate at the U.S. central bank about how close benchmark interest rates are to neutral, the level that neither stimulates nor depresses economic activity. It...
November 29, 2018 | Daily JAM |
Investors in U.S. stocks couldn't figure out how to position themselves ahead of the Saturday meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping so finally stocks didn't move much at all on the day. The Standard & Poor's 500, which opened the day at 2727.97,...
November 29, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Yesterday, Wednesday November 28, U.S. stocks saw a huge bounce with the Standard & Poor's 500 climbing 2.3% on a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman "suggesting" that the Fed might slow the speed and limit the number of interest rate increases in 2019. Today,...
November 28, 2018 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Salesforce (CRM) started today to the upside based on last night's earnings beat of 11 cents a share. Salesforce shares were up 4.57% as of noon New York time today. And then came the market-wide bounce after Fed chair Jerome Powell's speech suggesting that the...
November 28, 2018 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
Sometimes the market hears what it wants to hear and then storms higher (or lower) on what is little more than a hint. In the short run that doesn't much matter since the oftentimes huge gains are real and investors can and do take them to the bank. In the somewhat...
November 28, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
The ink is barely dry on the October 9 World Economic Update from the International Monetary Fund, which warned of the dangers of slowing global growth ahead. But the IMF is at it again. The fund has downgraded its forecast from the already downgraded October forecast...
November 27, 2018 | Daily JAM, IONS |
It's been a wild 2018 for Jubak Picks portfolio stock Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS.) Right now, though, the shares are on an upward trend. That's likely to continue with the company looking at a strong research presentation at the December 1-4 meeting of the American...
November 27, 2018 | Daily JAM, Short Term, Special Reports, WST |
Two robins don't make a spring. And two bounces--even when one of them is a really big bounce like that of Wednesday November 28--don't make a January Effect Rally in  small company stocks. But it sure looks to me like the sector is setting up for a typical January...