November 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, You Might Have Missed |
Is this as good as it gets? That’s an important question today as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes up 1.54% to 30,045.84, the first close above 30,000 ever. Other indexes were just as strong. The Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 1.62% by the close. The NASDAQ Composite was up 1.31% and the NASDAQ 100 was ahead 1.46% at the end of the session. The Russell 2000 small cap index ended the day ahead 1.78%. It’s not hard to see why stocks and investors are so ebullient: There’s just so much good news.
November 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
... well, we pretty much know what to expect for the coming week from the market's moves in the past week. We're likely to see a continuation of the battle between fear--that the surge in coronavirus infections will lead to another wave of shutdowns that will stagger...
November 10, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
If you remember, my "calendar" listed a short-term post-election rally to be followed by a downward ... 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...
November 9, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Pfizer (PFE) announced today that preliminary data show that the coronavirus vaccine that i... 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 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
... the dollar. The dollar continued to fall last week. The dollar spot index (DXY) of the dollar against a basket of other major trading currencies is now down 4.32% for the year (as of the close on November 6.) More recently, the dollar is down 5.3% since June 29....
October 31, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
... who knows? We do know that Tuesday is election day. But beyond that? We also know that the financial markets will react not just to the outcome of the election--victory for Donald Trump or Joe Biden--but also to the nature of the election process. Markets are...
October 30, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, You Might Have Missed |
The Standard & Poor's 500 closed down 1.21% today and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.59%. The NASDAQ Composite was lower by 2.45% and the NASDAQ 100 fell 2.54%. The Russell 2000 small cap index tumbled by 1.96%. The rising tide of new coronavirus...
October 29, 2020 | Daily JAM, RWM, Short Term, Volatility |
Yesterday, October 28, I posted that I would put off buying more downside protection against volatility in this nervous market for one more day. The plunge in stocks on Wednesday made downside protection more expensive--fear increases the demand for downside...
October 29, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
As of the close today, October 29, the Standard & Poor's 500 was up "just" 1.17%. (The NASDAQ Composite had gained 1.64% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average had picked up 0.52%) I say "just" because after yesterday's 3.53% drop in the index that move today is a...
October 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
New claims for unemployment in regular state programs fell to 787,000 last week. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had been expecting 875,000 for the week ended October 17. The total showed a drop of 55,000 from the revised figure of 842,000 for the prior week. The...
October 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
From the Washington Post today: "Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) put Senate GOP antipathy to a deal costing between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion in stark terms. “The dimensions of what they’re talking about today, I don’t think there are 13 Republicans for it. That’s my...
October 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term, VALE, Volatility |
Brazil's iron ore giant Vale (VALE) Â reported on Monday, October 19, that it produced more iron ore than expected in the third quarter due to record volumes from newer mines in northern Brazil. This comes just ahead of a seasonal slowdown in demand from China. The...
