July 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, SIX |
U.S. stocks broke strongly higher today as Moderna (RNA) disclosed results from an initial safety trial. Investors also got a report on the ITV.com website that new findings from the vaccine candidate being developed at the University of Oxford could be published as...
June 26, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter |
I think anyone who tells you they "know" where stocks are going next week is either smoking something (and I'd like some, please) or is looking to sell you something. In the last two weeks we've seen a market that was totally willing to look past all the evidence that...
May 6, 2020 | Daily JAM, SIX, Volatility |
Think of Six Flags (SIX) as Disney (DIS) without the movie studio, streaming service, and cable and TV assets. In other words, the company is just theme parks. 25 of them with 22 in the United States. Right now the company says that the parks are closed through...
April 8, 2020 | Daily JAM, DIS, Stock Alerts |
You know that Disney (DIS) is really serious about the likelihood of continued social distancing measures disrupting movie going for months when it delays the release date of Black Widow, once intended as the tentpole of its summer schedule. Black Widow has been...
June 24, 2019 | Daily JAM, PE, Stock Alerts |
Today I'm adding Parsley Energy (PE) January 17, 2020 Call Options with a strike of $20 (PE200117C00020000) to my Volatility Portfolio. I'm jumping the line a bit here in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Last 6 Months of 2019 in buying these options today....
June 18, 2019 | CTVA, Daily JAM, Special Reports, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
This isn't  time for investing as usual. As whacky as the first half of 2019 has been--the Federal Reserve embraces interest rate cuts, the U.S. and China descend further into a trade war, the U.S. economy turns in better than 3% growth but fears for a slowdown in...
June 17, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, PE, Stock Alerts |
Again. I'm adding the January 17, 2020 Call Options with a strike at $35 on Nektar Theraeutics (NKTR) to my Volatility Portfolio on JubakAM.com and JugglingWithKnives.com. (Ticker on these options is NKTR200117C00035000.) The underlying shares closed at $33.70, up...
June 3, 2019 | AMZN, Daily JAM, FB, GOOG, Mid Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Both Congress and government regulators are taking aim at big tech. The House Judiciary Committee is planning an investigation into whether digital platform companies are using their market power to harm competition. The Federal Trade Commission is taking the lead in...
April 5, 2019 | BA, Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
By mid-April Boeing (BA) will cut production of its 737 plans to 42 a month from the current 52-a month pace. Before the crash of a 737 Max operated by Lion Air and one operated by Ethiopia Airlines, Boeing had planned to increase production of the 737 by 10% by...
April 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) won't miss Wall Street earnings projections when it reports its first quarter financial results on May 9--because the company won't report any earnings. The consensus projection now has the company reporting a loss of 76 cents a share on...
January 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, VIX, Volatility |
Over the weekend in my Trick or Trend post I noted that S&P 500 volatility was experiencing a very unusual inversion--where the markets were projecting more risk in the next week than for longer periods like a month or two. And, I posited, that inversion wasn't...
January 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend, Mid Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Sunday 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. You've...
