July 20, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
This morning shares of Amazon (AMZN) burst higher out of the box, gaining 5.98% as of noon New York time. The catalyst, it appears, was a new target price from Goldman Sachs of $3800 a share, up from the previous target of $3000. The shares had closed at $2961.97 on...
July 18, 2020 | Daily JAM, Short Term, You Might Have Missed |
...exciting times. And while that's fun (to some people, I hear) on a roller coaster, it's not going to be fun this week as investors try to figure out how to play three big news trends. First (because it's simpler and not because it's necessarily most important)...
July 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Friday 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. Netflix...
July 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today what I'm calling "re-opening dependent" stock fell again. At least in the early going. Toward the end of session--like yesterday--these stocks and stocks in general rallied. Which in and of itself tells us something important about this market. First, the 2 p.m....
April 25, 2020 | Daily JAM |
... earnings drama. The week features reports from Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Facebook (FB), Microsoft (MSFT), ExxonMobil (XOM) General Electric (GE), Caterpillar (CAT), Ford (F), Tesla (TSLA), Starbucks (SBUX), McDonald's (MCD), Pfizer, and Gilead...
March 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, Mid Term, Morning Briefing |
Remember way back a couple of weeks ago. In February the consensus was that the slowdown in revenue and earnings from the coronavirus pandemic would last for the first quarter of 2020. Corporate guidance reflected that view with companies such as Nvidia (NVDA) telling...
February 26, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
This is exactly the pattern that financial markets are afraid of:Â Another company announcing the it would miss the revenue and earnings guidance that it had issued just weeks ago because of the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. In this case it's Microsoft (MSFT), a...
February 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, MSFT, Stock Alerts |
When I revised my Dividend Portfolio back on November 11, 2019, the idea was to add a few stocks that paid very low dividend yields now but that showed a likelihood of raising dividends substantially in the coming years. That way, you'd be buying future higher yields...
January 29, 2020 | Daily JAM |
The Standard & Poor's 500 finished the day down a scant 0.09%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.04%. The NASDAQ Composite was ahead 006$% and the Russell 2000 small cap index dropped 0.55%. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF ended the day higher by...
January 25, 2020 | Daily JAM |
... earning, earnings and more earnings, especially from the big technology companies in the NASDAQ 100. 26 companies in the index are scheduled to report results for the December quarter next week. Including reports from three of the four biggest U.S. companies....
November 13, 2019 | Stock Alerts, Volatility, XLNX |
On November 6 I added chip maker Xilinx (XLNX) to my Volatility Portfolio as one last FOMO pick to go with Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) and Cirrus Logic (CRUS). The stock closed that day at $93.77. It closed essentially unchanged at $93.29 today. My argument for the...
November 12, 2019 | CMI, CMWAY, Daily JAM, DLR, IEF, ITW, KMI, MRK, MSFT, OKE, PAC, PFXF, Special Reports, VZ, WBK |
Just to put all the changes in my Dividend Portfolio in one list after my Special Report 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert Here are the sells: Bank of America (BAC) as of November 1 ING Group (ING) as of November 1 Tapestry (TPR) as of November 1 Westpac...