August 4, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
The weak dollar of the past few months has been a boon to emerging market assets. It has made the dollar-denominated interest payments that many companies in these economies need to make cheaper in local currency terms. It has helped support financial assets in...
August 3, 2020 | Daily JAM, GLD, GOLD |
Spot gold hit an all-time high today to close at $1991.40 an ounce. In July gold rose 11%, the most since 2012. And now even investors and traders who never own gold are looking at the metal and say, "Should I buy? Will it rally some more?" In my opinion it's late to...
June 25, 2020 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
A while back I sold the Invesco Currency Shares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) out of my Perfect Five ETF Portfolio because I was looking for more diversification in that limited five ETF portfolio. (I replaced it with the iShares Large Cap China ETF (FXI) on April 20, 2020....
March 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, Perfect Five-ETFs |
The Japanese yen soared 2% Monday after the Federal Reserve announced that it would cut interest rates and add $700 billion to its balance sheet by buying Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. The dollar is down 0.66% today against the DXY Spot Index, a basket of...
January 21, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
News that a mysterious respiratory virus in China has infected medical workers, a sign that the virus has entered a new phase wherein it spreads from person to person, rocked Asian financial markets today. The death toll has climbed to six and China today raised the...
December 28, 2019 | Daily JAM |
...a short week of trading (duh!) without much going on (not even on the impeachment news front). But going into the new year, I'd advise watching the U.S. dollar. With optimism rising that the U.S. and China will at least reach a trade truce and that global trade...
December 16, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
This morning it doesn't matter that the Part 1 U.S.-China trade agreement isn't signed and that we don't have more than the bare, vague outlines of the deal. This morning it doesn't matter that the smashing Conservative Party victory in the United Kingdom elections...
November 13, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Given a chance to say that the Federal Reserve will keep its interest rate policy on hold through 2020, Fed chair Jerome Powell refused to take the bait at this morning's testimony in front of the congressional Joint Economic Committee.  “We see the current stance of...
October 15, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Good earnings news from big U.S. banks drove U.S. stocks higher today. As of 3 p.m. New York time, the Standard & Poor's 500 was up 1.10% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.03%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed .28% and the Russell 2000 small cap...
October 14, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
China now says it wants to hold more talks this month to hammer out the details of the U.S.-China mini-deal announced by President Donald Trump on Friday before Chinese President  Xi Jinping will sign it, both Bloomberg and the Washington Post are reporting today....
October 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Today the Trump administration put eight of China's technology giants on a blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Muslim minorities. And China signaled that it would retaliate over the blacklist. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters...
September 24, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Stocks were down this morning with the Standard & Poor's 500 falling 1.01% as of 1 p.m. New York time and bonds were up with Treasury prices climbing to send the yield on the 10-year Treasury down 8 basis points to 1.64%. The move down wasn't the result of a...