June 6, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Tomorrow, Friday, June 7, brings the May jobs report. Right now economists surveyed by Bloomberg are looking for the economy to add a robust 175,000 jobs with unemployment holding steady at 3.6% (as 49-year low) and average hourly wages growing at a very positive 3.2%...
June 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, IFNNY, Stock Alerts |
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June 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Special Reports |
Finally, Part 1 The Crisis in Global Demand, from my Special Report: The Crisis in Global Capitalism and 5 Ways to Position Your Portfolio. On May 29, U.S. stocks took another step lower with the Standard & Poor's 500 closing down 0.69% at 2783. Â News reports on...
June 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said today that the Fed will do whatever it takes to keep the U.S.economy chugging higher--including a near-term cut in interest rates if needed to offset the negative effects of President Donald Trump's trade and tariff wars. I see...
June 3, 2019 | AMZN, Daily JAM, FB, GOOG, Mid Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Both Congress and government regulators are taking aim at big tech. The House Judiciary Committee is planning an investigation into whether digital platform companies are using their market power to harm competition. The Federal Trade Commission is taking the lead in...
June 3, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Going into Monday, June 3, the consensus on Wall Street was that if the Institute for Supply Management's Purchasing Managers Index for manufacturing fell more than expected, U.S. stocks would follow in a rout. A lower than expected reading on the index would amplify...
June 2, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Stock Alerts, VGIT, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Today I sold the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) out of my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio. And today I'm replacing it in that portfolio with the Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury ETF (VGIT). Now obviously a Treasury bond ETF isn't in the same asset class as an...
June 2, 2019 | Daily JAM, EEM, Perfect Five-ETFs, Stock Alerts |
In an ideal world, I would have finished my Special Report on the Crisis in Global Capitalism On my subscription JubakAM.com site by now so I could place this sell--and the coming buy of a Treasury ETF--in the context of that crisis. But this isn't an ideal world....
June 1, 2019 | Daily JAM |
... market direction to depend on Wall Street's ability to hold onto denial in the accelerating global tariff war coming from the White House. On Friday, U.S. stock markets did a relatively good job at containing the damage. Sure, the talking heads said, the 5%--and...