Daily JAM
January 24, 2021 | Daily JAM |
This week brings fourth quarter earnings reports from Microsoft (MSFT) on Tuesday, and Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) on Wednesday to add fuel to the Big Tech rally. The NASDAQ 100, the home of big tech stocks, climbed 4.4% last week. Apple is expected to report record fourth quarter earnings. And that will certainly help technology stocks in general. But I’d also count the diversity of the companies reporting this week on the positive side of the ledger.
January 23, 2021 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Public health consequences aside, for the moment, as dire as they are, investors have to wonder if all the bad news on the coronavirus vaccination effort has started to erode the positive vaccine consensus that helped underpin the rally at the end of 2020 and into 2021.
January 22, 2021 | Daily JAM |
After barely dragging higher over the last month, big tech stocks turned red hot this week. And next week, when we get earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), APPLE (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) could be even hotter.
January 21, 2021 | Daily JAM, Videos |
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The seventh YouTube video “5 picks for after the pandemic” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video.
January 21, 2021 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Initial jobless claims in regular state unemployment programs declined–on an adjusted basis–by 26,000 to 900,000 for the week ended January 16, the Labor Department announced today, January 21. On an unadjusted basis, initial claims for unemployment dropped by more than 151,000 to 960,668. Continuing claims in state programs–the number of people receiving ongoing jobless benefits–decreased by 127,000 to 5.05 million in the week ended January 9. In the week ended January 2 there were 3.03 million continuing claims for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which provides federal extended jobless benefits for those who have exhausted their regular state benefits
January 20, 2021 | Daily JAM |
Gold futures on the COMEX for February delivery closed up 1.4% today, January 20, at $1866.50 an ounce. That’s the highest finished for the most active contract on the futures market since January 7. Silver for March delivery closed up 1.8% to $25.766 an ounce. All the talk about the need for a big stimulus program, bigger even than in response to the global financial crisis and the Great Recession, has sent some traders looking for inflation plays.
January 20, 2021 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the NASDAQ Composite all hit record highs. Likely cause? The peaceful inauguration of Joe Biden as President? Yesterday’s report of blow out gains in subscribers in the fourth quarter from Netflix (NFLX)? While the sigh of relief that the country wasn’t enveloped in another wave of violence at the 46th President took the oath of office certainly played a role, my vote on causation today goes to yesterday’s news from Netflix that the company added 8.5 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, far ahead of Wall Street projections for 6.03 million added subscribers. Netflix shares closed up 16.85% today.
January 19, 2021 | Daily JAM |
After the market close today, January 19, Netflix (NFLX) reported that it had added 8.51 million subscribers in the fourth quarter. Wall Street was expecting an add of 6.03 million. In after hours trading shares of Netflix gained 13.13%.
January 19, 2021 | Daily JAM |
When she was chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen’s words would often move stocks. Well, she was at it again today when in her Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary she told Congress to go big in coronavirus relief and economic aid. Stocks, which had been trading significantly lower in the morning hours abruptly reversed direction in the afternoon session. The Standard & Poor’s 500 had been down 0.33% at 11:18 a.m. New York time, but it closed up 0.81%.
January 19, 2021 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg were expecting that China would report 6.2% GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2020. Instead the government announced that China’s economy grew by 6.5% in the quarter. That pushed GDP growth for 2020 to 2.3% for the full 2020 year instead of the 2.1% forecast by economists.
January 17, 2021 | Daily JAM |
…earnings season to heat up after the big banks kicked off reporting on Friday. Tuesday brings more bank earnings from Bank of America (BAC) on Tuesday and Morgan Stanley (MS) on Wednesday before we move to big players in other sectors including Procter & Gamble (PG), Intel (INTC), and Netflix (NFLX).
January 15, 2021 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, XOM |
Shares of ExxonMobil (XOM) closed down 4.81% today on a Wall Street Journal report that the Securities & Exchange Commission was investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that the company overvalued assets in the Permian Basin oil shale geology. The whistleblower complaint alleges that during a 2019 internal assessment workers were forced to use unrealistic assumptions about how quickly wells could be drilled to reach a higher valuation.
