June 18, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term |
It wasn't a day for big moves in U.S. stocks. The Standard & Poor's 500 closed ahead 0.06% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished off 0.15%, for example. Nobody wants to get every far ahead of the trend--whichever direction it's pointing to. So, for...
May 18, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
As of 1 p.m. New York time today, May 18, the Standard & Poor's 500 is up 3.17% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is higher by 3.60%. The NASDAQ Composite has climbed 2.47% and the Russell 2000 small cap index is ahead 5.29%. The iShares Emerging Markets ETF...
May 4, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Warm spring weather did battle with pleas for social distancing and continued use of face masks. Guess which won? Which has already led some recently re-oped parks to shut down again. A popular park in Miami Beach, Fla., shut down Monday, five days after it reopened,...
April 1, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Not much mystery to today's selling. Investors and traders were trimming positions--or more--ahead of tomorrow's report on initial claims for unemployment. Last week brought a record 3.28 million new claims for unemployment as the coronavirus and "shelter in place"...
March 28, 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. Did you...
March 21, 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. The ink...