January 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
China has clamped travel restrictions on 40 million people on the eve of the Lunar New Year's holiday in an effort to contain an outbreak of a respiratory virus that has killed at least 39 people in the country. France has reported the first two cases in Europe U.S....
January 23, 2020 | Daily JAM |
On Tuesday after the close of trading Netflix (NFLX) smashed through fourth quarter projections by adding 8.76 million subscribers globally in the quarter. That easily beat analyst estimates for the quarter of 7.9 million new subscribers. For the quarter earnings came...
January 23, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
France and the United States have struck what the Trump administration and the French government are billing as a global framework for digital taxation that avoids a transatlantic trade war (according to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.) But like the Phase 1...
January 22, 2020 | AAPL, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
There's no official announcement from Apple yet, but iPhone assemblers including Hon Hai Precision Industry, Pegatron, and Wistron, are planning to begin producing a new lower-cost iPhone in February. Apple is expected to official announce the new phone in March....
January 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, ZNH |
Even as the death toll in China from the new coronavirus continues to rise, global financial markets are reacting like everything is under control. My way to track the market reaction is to follow shares of China Southern Airlines (ZNH), the largest airline in China...
January 21, 2020 | Daily JAM, PANW, SCHW, VEEV, WST |
In my most recent Special Report: When to sell: What to sell I recommended that any current rebalancing build up some cash. To implement that cash-building strategy, when you sell to rebalance a portfolio for 2020, buy fewer stocks than you sell so that the result is...
January 21, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
News that a mysterious respiratory virus in China has infected medical workers, a sign that the virus has entered a new phase wherein it spreads from person to person, rocked Asian financial markets today. The death toll has climbed to six and China today raised the...
January 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Let's be clear about one thing, shall we? I'm not calling for a sell off in 2020. The mere fact that U.S. stocks are trading at all time highs does not mean that the markets will collapse in 2020. A year like 2019, when the Standard & Poor's 500 returned 33% with...
January 18, 2020 | Daily JAM |
... a very important mid-week pivot from bank earnings reports to the beginning of earnings season for technology companies. Wednesday, January 22, brings fourth quarter earnings reports from Netflix (NFLX), an important stock for setting sentiment on momentum...
January 17, 2020 | Daily JAM |
If 2019 was (and it sure was) the year for putting money into U.S. stocks, will 2020 be the year for putting money to work outside the U.S. and especially in emerging market stocks? The answer from a large--and it seems increasing--number of Wall Street strategists is...
January 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
China's economy grew by 6.1% in 2019. That's down from 6.6% in 2018. But the 2019 figure meets the government's target, and December industrial output rose 6.9% year over year, ahead of the 5.9% forecast by economists. Retail sales climbed by 8% against a forecast of...
January 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, V |
Yesterday, the day of the announcement of the Part 1 trade deal between the United States and China, shares of Via (V) climbed 1.91%. MasterCard (MA) gained 1.16%. American Express rose 0.79%. On a day when the Standard & Poor's 500 fell 0.15% and the Dow Jones...