November 27, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Along with the rest of the United States, I'm on the road today headed to grandma's house over the hills and through the woods for Thanksgiving. Hope you get to be thankful with all those you love. (And travel safely.) I'll be back posting after the holiday weekend...
November 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, LNG, Volatility |
The second quarter of the year is, historically, the weakest quarter for global demand for natural gas. That's not a good forecast since the global glut of natural gas has already gotten so large that U.S. exporters of liquified natural gas have no place to send it....
November 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, SYNA |
When Synaptics (SYNA) traded at $40 I though the shares were undervalued. At $60 I think they're close to full value. My target price on the stock is $64 and the shares closed at $58.51 today, up 2.94% on the day. Tomorrow I'm going to take advantage of the current...
November 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today both the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the NASDAQ Composite Index hit all time highs. As of 3:40 p.m. New York time on Monday, November 25, the S&P 500 was up 0.67% and the NASDAQn Composite had gained 1.26%. There are two main drivers for the market...
November 24, 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. Over the last...
November 24, 2019 | Daily JAM |
... a quiet, holiday shortened week on U.S. markets--with the possible exception of China news. The Thanksgiving calendar, which puts the start of the Federal Reserve's quiet season ahead of the December 11 meeting of the bank's Open Market Committee on Saturday...
November 22, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Morning Briefing |
In spite of all the delays and all the contradictory claims I remain convinced that a Part 1 trade agreement between the U.S. and China will get signed. Maybe not in the remainder of 2019 but certainly within the early part of 2020. A wider agreement to settle issues...
November 21, 2019 | AAPL, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
It sure doesn't hurt when your two biggest potential competitors miss the deadlines for holiday sales. Microsoft (MSFT) has delayed the launch of its Surface Earbuds to the spring of 2020, missing the 2019 holiday shopping season. Google (aka Alphabet) has been...
November 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Interesting column by Matt Levine on Bloomberg Opinion today. In the piece "Schwab Broke Ameritrade to Buy It" he points out that the acquisition bid from Charles Schawb (SCHW) today to buy TD Ameritrade (AMTD) for a reported $26 billion comes after Schwab's...
November 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, DIS |
Netflix (NFLX) customers couldn't log in to their accounts for about two hours on Thursday morning. Downdetector.com recorded more than 1,000 complaints in the first hour. This follow on a much more serious service disruption suffered during the launch of Disney's...
November 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Morning Briefing |
You're aware, I hope, of the idea that there's an implicit Federal Reserve put that undergirds a stock market trading near record highs. The idea is that Fed chair Jerome Powell, would move to cut interest rates to support stocks if the market looked like it was about...
November 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Volatility |
The Energy Information Administration reported today that U.S. oil inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma hub fell by 2.3 million barrels. That was the biggest draw down in inventory at Cushing in three months. Supplies at the Cushing Hub reflect production in the U.S....