January 15, 2021 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, XOM |
Shares of ExxonMobil (XOM) closed down 4.81% today on a Wall Street Journal report that the Securities & Exchange Commission was investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that the company overvalued assets in the Permian Basin oil shale geology. The whistleblower complaint alleges that during a 2019 internal assessment workers were forced to use unrealistic assumptions about how quickly wells could be drilled to reach a higher valuation.
January 5, 2021 | Daily JAM |
Today, January 5, Saudi Arabia shocked OPEC+ with a voluntary 1-million-barrel-per-day output cut. The announcement came after OPEC and Russia agreed to allow a 75,000 barrels a day increase in total production from Russia and Kazakhstan in February and March. On the news U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed 5.00% to $50 a barrel and international benchmark Brent gained 5.05% to $53.67 a barrel.
October 25, 2020 | Daily JAM |
...huge numbers of earnings reports in the coming week with 93 on Monday, 178 on Tuesday, 319 on Wednesday, 397 on Thursday, and 81 on Friday. Let me pick out a few that have extra significance. On Tuesday Microsoft (MSFT), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Caterpillar...
October 18, 2020 | Daily JAM |
... OPEC's Monday meeting to roil oil markets. Even if the meeting doesn't make any decision on supply. (Likely at the cartel's December 1 meeting of oil ministers. Tomorrow's meeting is of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, chaired by Saudi Arabian Energy...
February 24, 2020 | Daily JAM |
Way back one Special Report ago and before the coronavirus outbreak, I asked you as part of my Special Report When to sell, What to sell, for 10 nominations of stocks that where I'd give you my sell/hold opinion. The nominating process resulted in 12 stocks rather...
October 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
The oil supermajors--ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX),Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), Total (TOT) and BP (BP)--are expected to show a 42% year over year average plummet in third quarter earnings when they report earnings this week. That's an even bigger slump than the 18%...
March 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, XOM, You Might Have Missed |
I'm part way through the annual rebalancing of my Dividend Portfolio (with other portfolios to follow.) The initial stage of that process requires a close look at which of the stocks in the portfolio I'd like to keep for another year (based on their prospects for the...
January 27, 2018 | Daily JAM |
So much news. And so much that has the potential to move the financial markets. Let’s start on the economic side, ok? Monday we get reports on personal income and inflation. And on the earnings side? Lots and lots of reports that could change the tone of this market. The biggest are Microsoft, (MSFT), PayPal (PYPL) and Facebook (FB) on Wednesday January 31 and then Alphabet (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) on Thursday, February 1.
February 20, 2017 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, XOM |
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January 19, 2017 | Daily JAM, Short Term, XOM |
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January 11, 2017 | CMI, Daily JAM, KMI, OKS, WES, XOM |
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December 1, 2016 | CHK, Daily JAM, LNG, Mid Term, PXD, RSPP, SDRL, STO, XOM |
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