Can Amazon earnings on July 30 turn the tide in this market?
Amazon (AMZN) reports second quarter earnings after the close of trading on July 30 next week. (I got the reporting date wrong  by a week in an earlier version of this post.) Wall Street is expecting impressive growth in online sales revenue. But after yesterdays...
Inflection point for stocks approaches
Today what I'm calling "re-opening dependent" stock fell again. At least in the early going. Toward the end of session--like yesterday--these stocks and stocks in general rallied. Which in and of itself tells us something important about this market. First, the 2 p.m....
Apple says it will close 30 more stores
I'm using Apple (AAPL) as one indicator for the state of the re-opening economy. Apple's decision today to re-close 30 more of its stores in seven states, including Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah, is a sign...
A promising trading strategy for upcoming earnings season
I'd like to see this pattern season for a few more days--until next week I'd say--but I think I see a promising trading strategy for the second quarter earnings season that begins, in my mind at least, with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) before the market open on Tuesday, July...
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...Jim’s Stock Alerts
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