Small move in S&P 500 disguises continued turmoil in big technology shares
Three stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 were up for every two that were down as the index turned in a day with very little movement--a gain of 0.05% at the close on September 11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead a bit more at 0.48% That lack of...Tech bounces off 50-day moving average
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Market passes baton back to Fed’s Powell Put for today’s rally
On Monday the Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ Composite hit new all-time highs on what I'm calling the Vaccine Put, the hope that we'll see the announcement of an approved coronavirus vaccine by early in 2021 or maybe even the end of 2020 or perhaps before...
Special Report: Meeting Your Retirement Challenge: Complete Part 3 A–Strategies and Picks
Part 3A: Strategies and Picks for the less risky end of a retirement portfolio Part 3 of my Special Report : "Meeting Your Retirement Challenge," which will focus on 5 concrete steps that you can take in your retirement portfolio. In this, Part 3A, I'm going to begin...
Trick or trend: Will the weak dollar ever turn higher?
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,...
Officially, U.S. government debt passes total U.S. GDP
In January, the Congressional Budget Office forecast that total U.S. government debt would hit 100% of GDP around 2030. At that point U.S. debt stood at about $17 trillion or roughly 80% of GDP. So much for that forecast. As of the end of June, U.S. government debt...
Barrick Gold raises dividend 14%
Shares of Barrick Gold (GOLD) are up 11.10% today to $29.99 as of 1:30 p.m. New York time on Monday, August 17. The continued climb in Barrick Gold shares comes on the strength of an ongoing rally in gold prices and news that broke on Friday that Warren Buffett's...
Trick or trend: Whither gold? As of June 30 Warren Buffett was a buyer
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.Granted it's...
Notes You Need for August 5: GOLD, WMT, AMZN, CMI, INTC, PXD, Quicken Loans IPO
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don't justify a full post. I've decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I'm calling Notes...
Gold and silver take another step toward excess
We've been here before. With gold and silver we're at that stage in a huge rally where Wall Street analysts rush to increase their target prices in order to keep ahead of the market and where the number of posts urging investors to get in now--And here's...
Gold hits a record: Now what?
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...Download Jim’s eBook for Free
