January 17, 2021 | Daily JAM |
…earnings season to heat up after the big banks kicked off reporting on Friday. Tuesday brings more bank earnings from Bank of America (BAC) on Tuesday and Morgan Stanley (MS) on Wednesday before we move to big players in other sectors including Procter & Gamble (PG), Intel (INTC), and Netflix (NFLX).
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...
March 27, 2020 | Daily JAM |
The U.S. oil and natural gas industry idled 40 more drilling rigs this week. That brings the U.S. total to 59 rigs idled in the last two weeks, almost 9% of the rig total. Worse yet, more than half of the idled rigs were in the Permian basin of West Texas. That...
August 20, 2019 | Daily JAM |
I've finally finished my complete list of sells in Step #2 of getting ready for the Next Big One. I've added them all to the complete Special Report that you can find in the Special Reports section of the site but I thought I'd also make them more accessible by...
August 15, 2019 | Daily JAM, DG, HDB, ITUB, Mid Term, WMT |
Today night I added Step #2 to my Special Report 5 Is Your Portfolio Ready for the Next Big? The post below is a cut and paste of the material I added to the Special Report. I'm posting it separately here to make it a bit more accessible. (In the full Special Report...
August 6, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
Is a Recession coming? I don't mean "someday." Someday the sun will go nova but I don't need to price that in to my investment strategy. But a Recession in 2020 or 2021? That's something to take into account. And to prepare for to the degree possible. Or a Credit...
April 23, 2018 | Daily JAM, FANG, HP, PXD, SLB, STO, YPF |
Oil futures in New York settled at their highest since December 2014. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed 0.35% to close at $68.88 a barrel. International benchmark Brent crude rose 0.88% to $74.71 a barrel. The gains were unusual in that the U.S. dollar strengthened today. But the markets had news of another missile attack on Saudi Arabia–again unsuccessful–by Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Houthis are backed by Iran and Yemen has become a proxy war for power in the Middle East between Iran and Saudi Arabia (and by extension, Russia and the United States.)
September 29, 2017 | Daily JAM, SLB, Stock Alerts |
Schlumberger's (SLB) next quarterly earnings report on October 20 will be a major test of the company's new business model. I hold the shares in my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio. For me the quarter will provide an early indication of how much volatility this new...
December 1, 2016 | CHK, Daily JAM, LNG, Mid Term, PXD, RSPP, SDRL, STO, XOM |
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October 17, 2015 | Stock Alerts |
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October 12, 2015 | Daily JAM |
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September 28, 2015 | Daily JAM, DHR, Stock Alerts, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
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