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U.S. manufacturing sector contracts for fifth straight month
Economists who had stayed too long at the egg nog and were predicting a rebound in U.S. manufacturing in December got coal in their stockings today (I promise to stop the Christmas references this week) when the Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers...
The first of four not so easy pieces for rebalancing any portfolio but specifically my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio
In an ideal world, every stock market trend--up, down, sideways--would begin on January 1 and end on December 31. That would make an annual rebalancing of any portfolio as easy as falling off a madly spinning log in a Canadian logging festival. Most market trends...U.S. consumers deliver the sugar plums for holiday shopping
Amazon (AMZN) reported today, December 26, that the holiday shopping season broke records for the company this year. Among other high-lights five million new customers started Prime free trials or paid memberships globally, and the number of items delivered with...
Special Report: 12 Bargain Stock Picks NOW: Picks #1-#12
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Does Fed, market complacency make you nervous?
“The U.S. economy is the star economy these days,” Fed chair Jerome Powell told the House Budget Committee today, November 14. “There is no reason to think that I could see that the probability of a recession is at all elevated at this time.” “Our forecast is, and our...
Today I’ve posted the finally completed and corrected Special Report: 3 ways to higher income in a low yield desert
Sorry this took so long but the complete Special Report with all three strategy recommendations is finally up. You can find it in the Special Reports section of the JubakAssetManagement.com site. To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including,...
Markets climb on Chinese statements promising tariff roll backs on signing of Part 1 deal
Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Geo Feng set off a rally in financial markets today by saying, “In the past two weeks, top negotiators had serious, constructive discussions and agreed to remove the additional tariffs in phases as progress is made on the agreement.”...
Oil earnings expected to disappoint starting with BP tomorrow and then continuing with ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday
The oil supermajors--ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX),Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), Total (TOT) and BP (BP)--are expected to show a 42% year over year average plummet in third quarter earnings when they report earnings this week. That's an even bigger slump than the 18%...
Microsoft’s earnings beat last night sets up Amazon and Apple earnings to come
Last night, October 23, after the market close, Microsoft (MSFT) reported earnings and revenue beats for its fiscal first quarter. Revenue climbed 14% year over year, beating Wall Street forecasts by $860 million. Earnings of $1.38 a share exceeded Wall Street...
PMI Services disappoints; stocks recover on Fed cut speculation
The Institute for Supply Management's Purchasing Managers Index for Services fell to 52.6 for September, according to reports this morning, October 3. That was a drop from August's 56.4 and below the 55.0 that economists surveyed by Bloomberg had projected. That left...
Are the foundations of this market looking a little ragged?
If you were an investor during the dotcom bubble of 1999 that turned into the dotcom bust of 2000 and then into an extended and painful bear market, then you now what we're seeing now isn't a comparable level of distress in the underpinnings of the financial markets....Jim’s Stock Alerts
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