May 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, HBI, Special Reports |
It'a gotten so that I shudder whenever a stock in my Dividend Portfolio gets near the day for the company to announce the dividend payout for the upcoming quarter. Too often, lately, the news has been grim: General Motors (GM) suspended its dividend for the second...
April 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buy the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that different...
April 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Special Reports |
Part 1: The ups and downs of the Bear In digging into the historical record of Bear Markets--again--I've come to the conclusion that what you can say about a bear market with any hope of a degree of accuracy very much depends on your time scale. In the longest time...
March 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
The definition of a bear market is rather simple: It's a drop of 20% or more from the market high. By this standard we've recently moved into a bear market on all the major U.S. stock indexes--and indeed on all the major overseas indexes with the exception, for the...
February 12, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Special Reports |
Pickings look rather slim for investors over the next decade, according to the results of Morningstar's annual survey of financial market forecasts. Certainly much slimmer than the extremely strong returns for U.S. stocks for the last decade. During that period the...
January 30, 2020 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
I'm going to have to do more than 10 stocks since there was some very tight bunching at the top. This will mean that it might take me the weekend to get everything researched and posted but I'll move on this as quickly as possible. To recap: As a bonus to my last...
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...
December 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports, You Might Have Missed |
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November 12, 2019 | CMI, CMWAY, Daily JAM, DLR, IEF, ITW, KMI, MRK, MSFT, OKE, PAC, PFXF, Special Reports, VZ, WBK |
Just to put all the changes in my Dividend Portfolio in one list after my Special Report 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert Here are the sells: Bank of America (BAC) as of November 1 ING Group (ING) as of November 1 Tapestry (TPR) as of November 1 Westpac...
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....
October 18, 2019 | Daily JAM, PANW, Special Reports, TWLO, VMW |
I've recently made two tech picks for the shorter-term. I think that over the next four weeks or so both Cirrus Logic (CRUS) and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) will beat Apple (AAPL) and an Apple-driven technology sector rally. But what about the longer term for technology...
September 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Long Term, Special Reports |
This past week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 17 and 18, the Federal Reserve injected $128 billion into the short-term money market in an effort to control a liquidity crunch that threatens the Fed's ability to set short-term interest rates. On Thursday, it put...