October 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks, TSM |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) reported earnings of 90 cents per American depositary receipt today on sales of  $12.14 billion for the company's September quarter. Net income climbed 36% year over year. Analysts had expected the company to earn 81 cents an...
October 14, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility, VXRT |
Shares of Vaxart (VXRT) closed down 10.04% today, October 14, giving back all of its 8.8% gain from Tuesday. The shares finished the October 14 session at $6.90. Yesterday, the company, which is working on a coronavirus vaccine in pill form, reported that hamsters who...
October 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, TWLO, Volatility |
This is something of a catch up post. On October 5 I added Twilio (TWLO) to my Jubak Picks and Volatility portfolios. I announced that buy in a post on October 2 and then again in my Special Report: "Your Investing Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market Months" I...
October 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, SCCO |
In my just completed Special Report: "Your Investment Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market Months" I wrote that I'd look to add some coronavirus recovery stocks to my portfolio during weakness in the November time period--looking looking toward better economic...
October 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, GDX, GOLD, Volatility |
In my Special Report "Your Investment Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market Months" I wrote "I'm pessimistic about the month before the election and for the lame duck months after it. I think there's a chance either in the United States or in Europe of some...
October 2, 2020 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks, TWLO |
Twilio (TWLO), which makes cloud-based software, climbed 13% today after analysts raised price-target after Thursday's investors day event. (For example Morgan Stanley raised its price garget for Twilio to $270 from $240. I would note the stock closed at $290 today,...
September 29, 2020 | Daily JAM, KCAC, Mid Term, Special Reports, Volatility |
Yikes. Does this market have enough volatility for you? And I think that volatility will only get worse over the next two to six months, I can't remember a market with so much potential to move up or down in big relatively short-term volatility as this one. Just as...
September 24, 2020 | ALB, Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, SQM, Top 50 Stocks |
On Wednesday, September 23, shares of Albemarle (ALB) and SQM (SQM), the two dominant lithium producers in the world, fell 11.56% and 11.82%, respectively, on an announcement at Tesla's (TSLA) Battery Day that the electric car maker would start its own lithium mining...
September 23, 2020 | ALB, Daily JAM, GOLD |
At 1 p.m. New York time the Standard & Poor's 500 was down 0.25%. At the close it was lower by 2.37% The pick up in selling was led by big tech stocks. Amazon (AMZN), for example was down 1.57% at 1 p.m. and 2.32% at the close. Microsoft was down 1.22% but...
September 23, 2020 | Daily JAM, ILMN, Jubak Picks, Stock Alerts, Top 50 Stocks |
With the Standard & Poor's 500 falling 2.37% at the close and the NASDAQ 100 down 3.16% for the day, shares of Illumina (ILMN) climbed 1.67%. Yesterday and today the selling of Illumina looks to have exhausted itself. The stock traded at $400.74 as recently as...
September 18, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, TCEHY, Top 50 Stocks |
The Trump administration will ban China’s TikTok and WeChat from mobile app stores beginning this Sunday, September 20. The White House will  also take other actions to restrict the use of WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging service owned by Tencent Holdings (TCEHY)....
September 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, ILMN, Jubak Picks, Top 50 Stocks |
Shares of Illumina (ILMN) dropped 8.44% today, September 16, on reports by both Reuters and Bloomberg that the genetic sequencing marketing leader is in talks to acquire Grail, a still private startup focused on blood tests for the early detection of cancer. I think...