June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
If there was ever a set up for a pause, this week is it. Last week, on June 20, the Standard & Poor's 500 hit an all time high. This week there's a lot of pending news to make investors nervous at this level of price in the market. It's time for caution--and maybe...
June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Let's hope this ends better than it usually does. On June 20, the day that the U.S. Standard & Poor's 500 hit a new all-time high, EPFR Global Data reported that equity mutual funds and ETFs had seen $14.3 billion in net inflows for the week that ended on June 19....
June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
The financial markets are getting ahead of themselves in a bad case of rate cut fever, Fed chair Jerome Powell, and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard both said today. This is a message that I've been waiting to hear as the financial markets moved to price in not a...
June 24, 2019 | Daily JAM, PE, Stock Alerts |
Today I'm adding Parsley Energy (PE) January 17, 2020 Call Options with a strike of $20 (PE200117C00020000) to my Volatility Portfolio. I'm jumping the line a bit here in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Last 6 Months of 2019 in buying these options today....
June 24, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
You can measure exactly how worried the oil sector is about more attacks in the Persian Gulf by trading the insurance premiums for oil tankers in the region. War risk premiums for a standard oil cargo from the Persian Gulf and the tanker hauling it can now cost...
June 23, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
... nervousness. With the Federal Reserve locked in, seemingly, on an interest rate cut in July, and then strongly inclined to cut rates again in September, no one really wants to step out of this market. We're talking major stimulus for the economy and a major boost...
June 22, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday 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. You have to...
June 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, TCEHY |
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June 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Stock Alerts |
It hasn't taken much--fears of war with Iran, a trade war with China, and signals of at least 50 basis points in interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve--but gold has finally broken out of its 5-year trading range. Gold shot higher on June 20, testing the March...
June 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
I wonder if the Trump White House ever feels like it's playing Whac-A-Mole. Certainly as soon as the administration talks one tariff crisis back from the edge, another seems to pop up somewhere else in the globe. Now it's India. India has announced retaliatory tariffs...
June 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, VGSH, Volatility |
Last night I made Vanguard Short Term Treasury ETF (VGSH) the No. 2 pick in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Next 6 Months of 2019. Today I'm adding it to my Jubak Picks Portfolio. I'm calling this my Judy Shelton Pick. I'll explain what that means in a moment....
June 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
U.S. crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed 5.23% to $56.57 a barrel as of 2:30 p.m. New York time today June 20. International benchmark Brent crude rose 4.03% to $64.31 a barrel. A U.S. drone was shot down by Iran in Iranian territory according to Iran or...