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)...
February 3, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Selling in Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares, which trade on those two mainland China exchanges with limits on overseas ownership, drove prices on those two exchanges lower today with the Shanghai Composite down 7.72% and Shenzhen A shares down 8.41% at the close. This...
February 1, 2020 | Daily JAM |
...the big event of the week to take place at the very beginning of the week when the Shanghai Stock Exchange reopens for trading after being closed for a week for the New Year's holiday. Mainland Chinese investors have been left on the sidelines unable to trade...
November 12, 2019 | Daily JAM, JD, Stock Alerts |
Last time I owned Alibaba (BABA) e-commerce competitor JD.Com (JD) I got a 25% short-term pop. I think it's time to go back to that trade again. JD.Com sold $29.17 billion in goods during the recently completed Singles' Day shopping frenzy. That was a new record for...
September 12, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
October 1 is National Day in China. That's always a big deal as the country celebrates the founding of the People's Republic. But it's an even bigger deal this year since this October 1 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding. Speculators know that in the run up to...
June 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, TCEHY |
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April 3, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, ZNH |
I can't find any news that explains why shares of China Southern Airlines (ZNH) are up 12% today. The entire Chinese market is higher on positive news on the U.S.-China trade talks, but that's been good for gains like 0.56% on JD.Com (JD) and 0.85% on CTRP...
March 7, 2019 | CTRP, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Yesterday I posted that I would sell Ctrip International.com out of my Jubak Picks portfolio at the first sign that the stock's upward momentum had broken. Well, the New York traded ADS for Ctrip closed down 5.42% today. I think that counts as a break and I'm selling...
March 6, 2019 | CTRP, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Way, way back on March 1 I wondered when it would be time to trim some China positions. The Shanghai market as a whole was up more than 14% in the last month. Sure, a potential U.S.-China trade deal offered the chance of a rally on the news, but Wall Street was...
