Saturday Night Quarterback (Part 1) says, For the week ahead expect…
...a big bang from Apple’s (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, June 22, even though the event will go virtual this year. The conference is Apple's big reveal on devices and operating systems to the independent developers who write the programs and apps...
Trick or trend: The re-opening economy hits a speedbump or three
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. If you're...
Apple re-shuts some U.S. stores on rise in coronavirus in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and South Carolina
Nothing sums up the uncertainty of the re-opening economy and the continued coronavirus pandemic than news today that Apple (AAPL) is temporarily again shutting some of its U.S. retail stores. The 11 closed stores are in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and South...
Apple’s delay in iPhone launch to hit Broadcom, other suppliers
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told analysts today, June 4, that the next iPhone will be launched later than usual and that chip suppliers like Broadcom (AVGO) will see the customary bump in revenue from Apple (AAPL) one quarter later than usual. The CEO told analysts that...
The U.S.-China trade war looks to move beyond words–and again it involves Huawei Technologies
China is ready to put U.S. technology companies such as Apple, (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), and Qualcomm (QCOM) on its "unreliable entity list." That would likely result in investigations and economic restrictions on those U.S. companies, according to the Global...
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
... earnings drama. The week features reports from Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Facebook (FB), Microsoft (MSFT), ExxonMobil (XOM) General Electric (GE), Caterpillar (CAT), Ford (F), Tesla (TSLA), Starbucks (SBUX), McDonald's (MCD), Pfizer, and Gilead...
Markets have a case of the earnings season “nerves” today
As of 1 p.m. New York time the Standard & Poor's 500 is down 1.88% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off 2.14%. The NASDSQ Composite is lower by 0.79% and the Russell 2000 small cap index has tumbled 2.80%. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) has...Putting on those Apple puts in today’s rally
One reason I decided to wait yesterday to put on those Apple (AAPL) September 18 puts (AAPL200918P00250000) in my Volatility Portfolio until today was a hope that the extremely wide bid/ask spread of Monday would narrow so that the put options wouldn't be as...
Microsoft warns that coronavirus will cause miss in guidance in March quarter
This is exactly the pattern that financial markets are afraid of: Another company announcing the it would miss the revenue and earnings guidance that it had issued just weeks ago because of the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. In this case it's Microsoft (MSFT), a...
They shoot momentum stocks don’t they?
The last two days of a plunging stock market on fears that the outbreak of coronavirus will last longer and spread farther than previously imagined have taken a huge chunk out of some momentum stocks. Just today shares of Nvidia (NVDA) fell another 4.11%, Twilio...
Trick or trend: Is Wall Street starting to worry about its $100 million financial tipping point in the coronavirus outbreak?
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