May 26, 2020 | Daily JAM, MPNGF, Stock Alerts |
As of 1 p.m. New York time today Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) shares were up 17.52% after the company reported better than forecast sales of 16.8 billion yuan ($2.4 billion) for the quarter that ended on Mach 31. The company reported a lower than projected loss of 1.58...
May 17, 2020 | Daily JAM |
...China fireworks. We ended last week with the Commerce Department slapping new restrictions on the sale of any chip made with U.S. semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China's Huawei Technologies. (Which means that Taiwan Semiconductor Manuacturing's plans to...
May 12, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Think of it as a first step toward a policy move and not as an actual plan for action. In its quarterly monetary policy report released Sunday, the People’s Bank of China said it will resort to “more powerful” policies to counter unprecedented economic challenges from...
April 19, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, MPNGF, Volatility |
I'm buying Meituan Dianping (MPNGF) on prospects for a China rally and on a gradual return of consumer confidence in China. The company, backed by Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), said that its food delivery business began to recover in March, when shuttered restaurants...
April 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Short Term, WST |
In my recent post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do something...
February 26, 2020 | Daily JAM |
It was less obvious today when there were other splashes of green among global stocks. But on Monday and Tuesday, the trend was readily apparent since so few stocks moved up on those days and so much of the market was colored a bright red. Oddly enough some China...