December 24, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Congress dispersed for Christmas. President Donald Trump headed to Florida. And there’s still no telling whether President Trump will, as he’s suggested via Twitter, whether he will veto the huge coronavirus relief/government spending bill.
July 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, JD, MPNGF, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
The Chinese economy returned to growth in the second quarter with gross domestic product climbing 3.2% in the quarter from the June quarter of 2019. That was a recovery from the 6.8% drop in GDP in the first quarter and the results beat projections for 2.4% growth....
July 14, 2020 | Daily JAM, JD, Volatility |
Of course, China's government isn't exactly giving away money. But Beijing has embarked on one of its periodic efforts to talk stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen and Hong Kong higher and then higher some more. On Monday July 6 the CSI 300 Index, which tracks the 300...
July 6, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Chinese stocks are burning up the track--and that has led the way to a shift toward "risk on" assets across global markts. Today alone the Shanghai Composite Index was up 5.71% as of noon New York Time. This continued as streak that has seen the CSI 300 Index gain 14%...
May 26, 2020 | Daily JAM, MPNGF, Stock Alerts |
As of 1 p.m. New York time today Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) shares were up 17.52% after the company reported better than forecast sales of 16.8 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) for the quarter that ended on Mach 31. The company reported a lower than projected loss of 1.58...
May 12, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Think of it as a first step toward a policy move and not as an actual plan for action. In its quarterly monetary policy report released Sunday, the People’s Bank of China said it will resort to “more powerful” policies to counter unprecedented economic challenges from...
April 19, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, MPNGF, Volatility |
I'm buying Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) on prospects for a China rally and on a gradual return of consumer confidence in China. The company, backed by Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), said that its food delivery business began to recover in March, when shuttered restaurants...
April 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Short Term, WST |
In my recent post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do something...
April 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
China's gross domestic product contracted by 6.8% from a year ago in the first quarter. Economists had projected a 6.0% drop. The decline was the worst since the government began releasing quarterly GDP numbers in 1992. Other numbers in today's data dump were equally...
April 2, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Stock Alerts |
This morning the board of Luckin Coffee (LK), the fastest growing coffee brand in the world, announced that it had told the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission that it had initiated an internal investigation into the possibility that former COO, Jian Liu had...
February 26, 2020 | Daily JAM |
It was less obvious today when there were other splashes of green among global stocks. But on Monday and Tuesday, the trend was readily apparent since so few stocks moved up on those days and so much of the market was colored a bright red. Oddly enough some China...
February 4, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
As of 1 p.m. in New York the Standard & Poor's 500 was up 1.61% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.59%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed 1.94% and the Russell 2000 small cap index had gained 1.68%. Overseas the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM)...
