June 30, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Sunday 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. As we wait...
June 29, 2019 | Daily JAM |
...a rally in U.S. financial markets as the markets got what they were hoping for out of the talks today between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at the G20 conference. There are major differences in what the two countries are saying about what was...
June 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Volatility |
Today, June 28, I added Corteva (CTVA), one of the three stocks to emerge from the merger, reorganization, and then breakup of Dow and DuPont, to my Volatility Portfolio. Â . On Monday, Â I'll be adding another from that breakup to my Volatility Portfolio. This time...
June 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, STZ |
On June 26 I added Constellation Brands (STZ), my No. 2 pick in my 5 Best Value Picks Special Report to my Volatility Portfolio. Today, June 28, Constellation Brands closed 4.73% higher on final first quarter earnings. Revenue grew 2.4% year over year. (The company's...
June 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
The core Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, picked up in May by 0.2% from April. That took the annual inflation rate to 1.6%. That was just above the median estimate from economists surveyed by Bloomberg and...
June 27, 2019 | CTVA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Last night I added seed and agricultural chemicals company Corteva (CTVA) to my 10 Best Picks for the Rest of 2019 Special Report. Tomorrow June 28, I'll add it to my Volatility Portfolio. Confusion is your friend when you're looking for a stock that the market has...
June 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, PANW, Stock Alerts, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Today I made Palo Alto Networks (PANW) the sixth pick in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Rest of 2019. Tomorrow, June 28, I'll add these shares to my Jubak Picks Portfolio and my Volatility Portfolio with a target price of $260. The stock closed at $204.89...
June 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Morning Briefing, VGIT, VGSH |
Today with the yield on the 10-year Treasury down to 2.02%, a drop of 2 basis points, two Wall Street heavy weights are predicting that we haven't seen a bottom in yield yet. Not by a long shot. Goldman Sachs today cut its forecast for the year-end yield on the...
June 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need |
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don't justify a full post. I've decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I'm calling Notes...
June 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, PE, PXD |
U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude is now up 10% for the week following on a 2.44% jump in price to $59.24 a barrel today. International benchmark Brent crude gained 1.94% to $66.31 a barrel. Continued tensions between the United States and Iran, of course,...
June 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
So what  does the United States want out of the Saturday talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping? In a Wednesday interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo Trump thoroughly confused expectations. The market consensus had been...
June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, DIS, Special Reports |
The Standard & Poor's 500 closed at a new all-time high on June 20 at 2954.18. It's easy in today's market to find stocks trading at astronomical price to earnings ratios. Amazon (AMZN) sell for 79.90 times trailing twelve-month earnings per share. Netflix (NFLX)...