June 22, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend |
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday 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 have to...
June 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term |
I wonder if the Trump White House ever feels like it's playing Whac-A-Mole. Certainly as soon as the administration talks one tariff crisis back from the edge, another seems to pop up somewhere else in the globe. Now it's India. India has announced retaliatory tariffs...
June 19, 2019 | AAPL, Daily JAM |
President Donald Trump has argued that slapping higher tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States would bring jobs back to this country--if China didn't agree to a new trade deal--as companies moved factories in order to avoid the higher tariffs. According...
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 18, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Apparently U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will talk at next week's meeting of the Group of 20 in Osaka Japan. President Trump tweeted his morning: "Had a very good telephone conversation with President Xi of China. We will be having an...
June 14, 2019 | Daily JAM, Friday Trick or Trend, Mid Term |
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. I think there...
June 13, 2019 | AAPL, Daily JAM, Mid Term, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
Today Broadcom (AVGO) cut its annual sales forecast, saying that the U.S.-China trade war will wipe out the rebound in orders that it had predicted for the second half of 2019. Revenue at the chipmaker for fiscal 2019 will be $22.5 billion instead of the $24.5 billion...
June 11, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
The market doesn't go up every day so it's important not to over-react to minor weakness. As of the close today New York time the Standard & Poor's 500 index was off a slight 0.03%; the Dow Jones Industrial Average had slipped 0.05%. The NASDAQ Composite was down...
June 10, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
President Donald Trump continues to claim that there are unannounced side agreements to the deal between the United States and Mexico that ended, for the moment, the threat of escalating U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports. In one of those side agreements, according to...
June 6, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Tomorrow, Friday, June 7, brings the May jobs report. Right now economists surveyed by Bloomberg are looking for the economy to add a robust 175,000 jobs with unemployment holding steady at 3.6% (as 49-year low) and average hourly wages growing at a very positive 3.2%...
June 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said today that the Fed will do whatever it takes to keep the U.S.economy chugging higher--including a near-term cut in interest rates if needed to offset the negative effects of President Donald Trump's trade and tariff wars. I see...
June 3, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term |
Going into Monday, June 3, the consensus on Wall Street was that if the Institute for Supply Management's Purchasing Managers Index for manufacturing fell more than expected, U.S. stocks would follow in a rout. A lower than expected reading on the index would amplify...
