July 8, 2021 | Daily JAM, Short Term, You Might Have Missed |
I’ve read all the headlines explaining today’s drop in stocks, and yesterday’s and the day before. The chaos at OPEC and in oil prices. Fears that the economic recovery is slowing. Thoughts that inflation isn’t a worry and that instead we should fret about deflation. There is some truth to all these explanations. But I don’t see much of the way in news to support a major change in market trend and sentiment. And when I see a big, fast move like that of the last three days or so without much in the way of news to change investors’ view of the world, my thoughts turn to computers and program trades
June 11, 2020 | Daily JAM |
I don't know who started the rout today, human beings or machines. But conditions were ripe for selling from both sources. On the human side, investors were looking at gains of 50% or more in the last month in stocks that had been crushed by the coronavirus recession....
November 5, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Special Reports |
Scary market, huh? Completely unpredictable it seems, right? Up on Tuesday October 30 with the Standard & Poor's ahead 1.57% at the close and the technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite ahead 1.58%. Quite a turn about from the previous day when the S&P 500 finished...
November 3, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Special Reports |
Scary market, huh? Completely unpredictable it seems, right? Up on Tuesday October 30 with the Standard & Poor's ahead 1.57% at the close and the technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite ahead 1.58%. Quite a turn about from the previous day when the S&P 500 finished...
