July 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
There's a consensus on Wall Street that the roll out of 5G wireless technology will be a hugely disruptive event. 5G is the successor to 4G (well, like, Duh) the current standard for network technology introduced commercially in 2009. 5G could end up being 100 times...
June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, DIS, Special Reports |
The Standard & Poor's 500 closed at a new all-time high on June 20 at 2954.18. It's easy in today's market to find stocks trading at astronomical price to earnings ratios. Amazon (AMZN) sell for 79.90 times trailing twelve-month earnings per share. Netflix (NFLX)...
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 5, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Special Reports |
Finally, Part 1 The Crisis in Global Demand, from my Special Report: The Crisis in Global Capitalism and 5 Ways to Position Your Portfolio. On May 29, U.S. stocks took another step lower with the Standard & Poor's 500 closing down 0.69% at 2783. News reports on...
April 16, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
When I set out to research and write my recent Special Report Five Sector Facing Disruption That Could Crush Your Portfolio I wanted to focus on the "destruction" side of the process of "creative destruction" that makes up economic growth in our capitalist system. The...
April 13, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Each bit of news by itself argues for the disruption of the oil and natural gas sector. Together the two stories add up to a decade that will turn the sector topsy turvy. First, the story you've probably most familiar with since it produced such a big splash in the...
April 11, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
As Monty Python's Flying Circus so memorably admonished, Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition. But investors should expect disruption. Thanks to the missionary work of Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, Wall Street, capital markets, and investors all know...
March 29, 2019 | Daily JAM, FANG, HP, PXD |
Once upon a time investors and traders wanted to own the shares of U.S. oil shale producers and shares of the oil service companies that sold them equipment and services. U.S. oil production from oil shales--especially the low-cost Permian Basin--was soaring. Oil...
March 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term, Special Reports |
That famous futures trader Marc Antony famously said "Beware the Ides of April." Okay, the guy had a mixed performance record. Short Brutus but long Cleopatra. But his advice about April 2019 is good. The Ides of April fall on the 13th of the month. And what promises...
March 14, 2019 | Daily JAM, DLR, Stock Alerts |
For Digital Realty Trust (DLR), a REIT that owns 198 data centers in 32 metropolitan areas with 2,300 customers, the case for stable earnings growth--one of my criteria for stocks to own during the earnings recession that's looming for 2019--is pretty solid. The...
February 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, WMT |
Today February 27 I'm adding Wal-Mart (WMT) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio and making it the sixth pick in my Special Report: 10 stocks for an earning recession. Only 25% of Wal-Mart's revenue currently come from outside the United States--a plus in view of my projection...
February 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, DHR, Stock Alerts |
I had some doubts about adding Danaher (DHR) to my Special Report: 10 picks for an earnings recession. Did the stock have enough of a catalyst to carry it upward during the slowdown in earnings predicted for at least the first three quarters of 2019? Yes, the company...