November 9, 2019 | 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. Here's the...
November 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Today, Monday November 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its first new all-time high since July. The Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ Composite also saw new highs. Stocks gave up some of their gains into the close but the Dow still finished up 0.39% for...
October 24, 2019 | AMZN, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
You know what an "Amazon quarter" feels like right? Lots of revenue growth but no earnings as capital spending eats profits? Well, that's sort of what the company delivered today. But not quite. And the not quite is important. Usually an Amazon quarter is...
October 23, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Shares of Texas Instruments (TXN) closed down 7.48% today after the company reported that third-quarter earning felt $1.49 a share from $1.58 a share in the third quarter of 2018. Revenue dropped 11% year over year. On the other hand, shares of Apple continued to move...
October 22, 2019 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Morning Briefing |
Today the Standard & Poor's 500 matched a 12-week high and made yet another assault on a new all-time record. Better than expected earnings have been the market driver. Some 81% of the S&P 500 companies that have reported for the quarter so far have beat...
October 19, 2019 | AMZN, Daily JAM, MSFT |
...a "showdown" between Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) in the cloud space as the two companies report earnings only a day apart (on Wednesday October 23 for Microsoft and Thursday October 24 for Amazon.) Microsoft's cloud effort--Azure--is growing faster than...
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...
July 21, 2019 | Daily JAM |
... tech earnings and more tech earnings. With no distraction from Fed speak--since the Federal Reserve went into its usual quiet period Saturday ahead of its July 31 meeting. The first few days of the week are quiet. And then earnings go into high gear. All of that...
July 2, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
The forecast from earnings observers such as FactSet is that second quarter earnings will show a 2.5% drop from last year. So what does the average, reasonably smart CEO do? He or she goes to the Wall Street playbook and cuts guidance so that when earnings are...
July 1, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Join me on my search for the elusive catalyst that could take U.S. stocks higher from what is already an all-time high. Quiet, though, catalysts can be very shy. Peaking through the bushes surrounding the water hole, I can see signs of company earnings. The big banks,...
May 17, 2019 | CSCO, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
Yesterday, May 16, earnings from Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Wal-Mart (CSCO) before the open powered U.S. stocks higher to start the day. So what did Cisco say? (I reported on Wal-Mart in a post yesterday that you'll find in your email today.) Cisco reported earnings per...
May 16, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, WMT |
Today, May 16, earnings from Wall-Mart (WMT) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) before the open powered U.S. stocks higher to start the day. So what did Wal-Mart say? (I'll report on Cisco in another post.) Before the markets opened in New York, Wal-Mart reported first quarter...
