July 26, 2021 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
Today, I’m going to begin to give you specific picks so you can start to fill out the three buckets I recommended in Part 1 of this Special Report. Filling the long-term bucket is probably the most fun–who doesn’t like imagining the wealth that will roll in from finding the next Nvidia (NVDA) or from investing in the current Nvidia. The short-term bucket is the most challenging since it requires you to confront the current paucity of assets throwing off yields of even 2% head on.But let’s start there since the other buckets hang off the short-term bucket.
February 18, 2021 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
10-year Treasury yield hits 1.30% even as stocks drop with rates hitting peak from before the March 2020 pandemic panic
November 14, 2020 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
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. Stocks, by...
April 5, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Bear Markets are extreme events. Which means they do weird things to asset correlations. And if you think that's too much inside baseball (you remember baseball, right) for you, think about how in a bear market you're counting on finding safety from a general market...
March 6, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
By now I assume you know that today was another brutal day for U.S. stocks (although markets moved up significantly in the last hour.) The Standard & Poor's 500 closed down another 1.71% and the Dow Jones Industrials dropped 0.98%. The NASDAQ Composite was lower...
February 26, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Wall Street bankers didn't offer a single new corporate bond for sale today. Zero. And today was the third straight day without any new bond offerings in New York. In Europe today was the first day this year without a deal. Asian offerings have slowed to a trickle....
July 27, 2019 | Daily JAM |
... an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve at its July 31 meeting. That market sure expects the Fed to reduce rates. The CME FedWatch Tool placed the odds of an interest rate cut at 100% on Friday. That means that the market has priced in a drop in interest...
June 2, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Stock Alerts, VGIT, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Today I sold the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) out of my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio. And today I'm replacing it in that portfolio with the Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury ETF (VGIT). Now obviously a Treasury bond ETF isn't in the same asset class as an...
April 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
Something happened at the end of March that we all need to pay attention to. By this point in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, we're immune to wonder at the existence of government bonds with negative yields. Why would anyone in their right minds pay a...
March 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
It's all my fault. I go away for two days to tour colleges with my daughter, and global bond markets soar as everybody in the world decides to seek safety simultaneously. Today's pause has very little to do with my return to my desk. The rise in bond prices has been...
February 11, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
Investors and traders looking to hedge against the risk that U.S. stocks will take a tumble (or worse) are rushing to buy bonds. Let week another $490 million flowed in the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT.) That brought the inflow for 2019 to date as of...
January 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
Here's one more macro trend to add to your list next to China trade war, Fed interest rates, and government shutdown. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department will maintain its sales of Treasuries at record levels near $1 trillion in new issuance for a second year in a...
