June 10, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
President Donald Trump continues to claim that there are unannounced side agreements to the deal between the United States and Mexico that ended, for the moment, the threat of escalating U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports. In one of those side agreements, according to...
June 1, 2019 | Daily JAM |
... market direction to depend on Wall Street's ability to hold onto denial in the accelerating global tariff war coming from the White House. On Friday, U.S. stock markets did a relatively good job at containing the damage. Sure, the talking heads said, the 5%--and...
May 31, 2019 | Daily JAM, Long Term, Morning Briefing |
It's only 5%, Wall Street is saying today in what clearly sounds like an effort to convince itself when investors really know better. That unconvincing "happy talk" is why the Standard & Poor's 500 index was down only 1.24% at the close today, May 31. (I say...