August 14, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
As of noon today New York time, the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are both down 2.42%. The NASDAQ Composite is lower by 2.78%. The Russell 2000 small cap index has tumbled 2.66%. And the iShare MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) has...
July 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center said there is a “significant risk” that the U.S. will breach its debt limit in September unless Congress acts. The last time the independent think tank projected possible U.S. default the group pointed to October or November. The...
June 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
The financial markets are getting ahead of themselves in a bad case of rate cut fever, Fed chair Jerome Powell, and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard both said today. This is a message that I've been waiting to hear as the financial markets moved to price in not a...
May 13, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Adding to Monday's market sell off or maybe causing Monday's market sell off or maybe just a result of the Monday sell off, the yield curve on U.S Treasuries inverted again on May 13. The yield on the 3-month Treasury bill at 2.38% ended the day higher than the yield...
November 28, 2018 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
The ink is barely dry on the October 9 World Economic Update from the International Monetary Fund, which warned of the dangers of slowing global growth ahead. But the IMF is at it again. The fund has downgraded its forecast from the already downgraded October forecast...
September 26, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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