November 6, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
It now looks likely that President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping may not be able to sign that Part 1 trade deal until December. The two sides still haven't set a date or a place. The Chinese have ruled out the first two U.S. suggestions of Iowa and Alaska and...
November 5, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Contrary to recent evidence, stocks don't go up everyday. And today U.S. stocks took a very minor rest with the Standard & Poor's 500 actually falling 0.12% and the NASDAQ Composite essentially flat with a gain of 0.02%. But I think the trend is still definitely...
November 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Morning Briefing |
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury climbed another 10 basis points today to 1.85%. The yield is now up 32 basis points in the last month, although it is still down 135 basis points in a year. That leaves the yield on the 10-year Treasury 40 basis points above its...
November 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, Long Term |
With my thoughts on why rebalancing has been so difficult in the market of the last 12 months. To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one...
November 4, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Friday last wound up being a travel day for me--and in my efforts to get the Income Investing Special Report posted before I headed off to Dallas I posted the wrong version of the report. And when I went in to correct the error I discovered that I'd lost parts of the...
November 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Today, Monday November 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its first new all-time high since July. The Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ Composite also saw new highs. Stocks gave up some of their gains into the close but the Dow still finished up 0.39% for...
November 1, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
How dry is the current low yield desert Awfully dry. And likely to get drier. Which raises this question: How can income investors find higher returns? Providing three answers to that is the subject of this special report. Let's start with the dryness of the desert....