November 10, 2020 | Daily JAM |
There's really, really good news in Pfizer's announcement that the coronavirus vaccine it has been developing has turned out to be 90% effective. And that's true even if it turns out that some other company's vaccine becomes the preferred preventative for the...
October 16, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, PFE, Stock Alerts |
In a public letter Pfizer (PFE) CEO Albert Bourla wrote that the company hopes to have initial data from its Phase 3 clinical trail of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of October and that it will wait until the third week in November to file an emergency use...
September 12, 2020 | 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. As...
September 8, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Clinical trials of a covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca (AZN) and the University of Oxford have been put on hold pending a review of a “potentially unexplained illness,” the company said in a statement today. “This is a routine action which has to happen...
July 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
With 160 coronavirus vaccine candidates under development around the world, it's not surprising that we would get reports on three successful, if very early, trials today. The coronavirus vaccine that Oxford University is developing with AstraZeneca (AZN) showed...
June 12, 2020 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need |
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...
May 18, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
As of 1 p.m. New York time today, May 18, the Standard & Poor's 500 is up 3.17% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is higher by 3.60%. The NASDAQ Composite has climbed 2.47% and the Russell 2000 small cap index is ahead 5.29%. The iShares Emerging Markets ETF...