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Trick or trend: Emerging markets don’t like the jump in U.S. Treasury yields

Trick or trend: Emerging markets don’t like the jump in U.S. Treasury yields

March 7, 2021 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend | 0 comments

Cash flows for emerging market stocks turned negative in the last week of February, according to the Institute for International Finance. Cash flows for emerging market debt turned negative last week. The data show daily outflows of $290 million in the last week. That compares to daily inflows of about $325 million in February.

Saturday Night Quarterback says (on a Sunday), For the week ahead watch…

Saturday Night Quarterback says (on a Sunday), For the week ahead watch…

November 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term | 8 comments

... the dollar. The dollar continued to fall last week. The dollar spot index (DXY) of the dollar against a basket of other major trading currencies is now down 4.32% for the year (as of the close on November 6.) More recently, the dollar is down 5.3% since June 29....
Saturday Night Quarterback says (on a Sunday), For the week ahead watch…

Trick or trend: Will the weak dollar ever turn higher?

August 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend | 0 comments

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. Of course,...
Trick or trend: Emerging markets don’t like the jump in U.S. Treasury yields

If the dollar gets stronger, it won’t be good news for emerging market assets

August 4, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing | 0 comments

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...
China’s exports get hit by coronavirus disruption in the rest of the global economy

China’s exports get hit by coronavirus disruption in the rest of the global economy

March 27, 2020 | Daily JAM | 0 comments

We won't know until March 31 when he purchasing managers' indexes for China are released but it looks like China will see its first quarterly contraction of its economy in decades and the weakest year since 1976. The problem is that just as Chinese factories are going...
Selling emerging markets short ETF EUM out of my Volatility Portfolio

Selling emerging markets short ETF EUM out of my Volatility Portfolio

December 18, 2019 | Daily JAM, EUM, Stock Alerts, Volatility | 11 comments

I don't know whether you've been able to hear it over all the other market noise--All the shouting on Brexit, for example--but there is a distinct and increasingly loud call from Wall Street that 2020 is the year to get back into emerging market assets. I don't happen...
Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…

Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…

December 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Saturday Night Quarterback | 0 comments

... central bank week. The Federal Reserve announces changes to U.S. benchmark interest rates on Wednesday, December 11. The central bank is expected to keep rates at current levels. The European Central Bank meets a day later, on Thursday, December 12. It too is...
People’s Bank adds $126 billion in liquidity to Chinese economy

People’s Bank adds $126 billion in liquidity to Chinese economy

September 6, 2019 | Daily JAM, Volatility, You Might Have Missed | 0 comments

With China's economy expected to slow further in September after poor results in July and August, the People's Bank of China cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves to the lowest level since 2007.  The required reserve ratio for all banks will be...
Step #3 Adding more risk hedges in my Special Report on getting ready for the next Big One

Step #3 Adding more risk hedges in my Special Report on getting ready for the next Big One

August 30, 2019 | Daily JAM, EUM, Volatility | 30 comments

As I wrote in my August 26 post "Risk and uncertainty soared on Friday--and not for the reasons you might first think" I think that Friday's retaliatory tariffs from China and then the Trump administration's retaliation to the retaliation--plus rhetoric from President...
Selling Emerging Markets ETF out of my ETF Portfolio on Monday

Selling Emerging Markets ETF out of my ETF Portfolio on Monday

June 2, 2019 | Daily JAM, EEM, Perfect Five-ETFs, Stock Alerts | 1 comment

In an ideal world, I would have finished my Special Report on the Crisis in Global Capitalism On my subscription JubakAM.com site by now so I could place this sell--and the coming buy of a Treasury ETF--in the context of that crisis. But this isn't an ideal world....
Selling emerging markets short ETF EUM out of my Volatility Portfolio

Adding more Utilities, cutting Emerging Markets in ETF Portfolio

December 26, 2018 | Daily JAM, EEM, Perfect Five-ETFs, XLU | 8 comments

Now that the Federal Reserve has decided to slow the pace of its interest rate increases in 2019--perhaps ultimately all the way to one or none--I think it's time to up the utilities exposure in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio. Especially since in this market I'm looking...
Overnight S&P 500 futures show markets cheering Trump-Xi results

Overnight S&P 500 futures show markets cheering Trump-Xi results

December 2, 2018 | Daily JAM, Short Term | 5 comments

Just about everything was up in the overnight market. Asian stocks climbed. So did the Australia dollar and the Chinese yuan. And, importantly for U.S. investors, the S&P 500 index futures gained 1.5% in overnight trading. Emerging market currencies were all...
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