May 24, 2023 @ 1:03 pm | Breaking News |
We all know that a continued standoff on the debt ceiling would be bad for the U.S. economy and financial markets. But even a deal along current lines is going to cost jobs–lots of jobs–and take a bite out of economic growth, according to Bloomberg...
May 24, 2023 @ 12:57 pm | Breaking News |
This reporting from the Washington Post this morning makes me very pessimistic about any debt ceiling deal until after the first checks DON’T go out on June 1 or whenever. “During a closed meeting Tuesday morning at a GOP hangout a block from the U.S....
May 22, 2023 @ 7:31 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventy-sixth YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Gold with a Copper Kicker Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years:...
May 22, 2023 @ 7:08 pm | Breaking News |
Last week Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that the Fed could hold off on another interest rate increase at its June 14 meeting. That comment wz one reason that the CME FedWath tool showed the odds of no increase at the meeting jumping to 82.6% on Friday, May...
May 17, 2023 @ 6:11 pm | Breaking News |
Target (TGT) easily beat Wall Street earnings projections for the company’s fiscal first quarter with a report yesterday May 16 after the close with a report of $2.05 a share. Analysts were looking for $1.80 a share. Earnings were down, however, 6.2%...
May 17, 2023 @ 6:08 pm | Breaking News |
The typical pattern is for households to run up credit card balances for holiday shopping and then for consumers to pay down credit card balances in the first quarter. That’s what happens in a healthy economy where consumers are living within their means and...
May 17, 2023 @ 6:03 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventy-third YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Credit Squeeze Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free...
May 11, 2023 @ 10:20 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventy-second YouTube Video: Quick Pick Albemarle Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free download for...
May 11, 2023 @ 10:09 pm | Breaking News |
The Producer Price Index rose 0.25% in April from March and at a 2.3% rate year-over-year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, May 11. This index measures prices at the wholesale level–changes at that level eventually show up in the prices that...
May 10, 2023 @ 11:01 pm | Breaking News |
CPI inflation ticked lower in April with the all-items (headline) inflation rate nudging down to a year-over-year 4.9%. The core rate, which excludes food and energy prices, also slipped lower to a year-over-year 5.5% from a 5.6% rate in March. On a month-to-month...
May 10, 2023 @ 10:54 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventy-first YouTube Video: Lots of Volatility But It’s Not Tradeable. Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5...
May 9, 2023 @ 10:50 pm | Breaking News |
There’s always the question of exactly how smart the smart money is, but I find these moves from big Wall Street names interesting as I look for any signs of cracks in the current consensus looking for a quick pivot to interest rate cuts from the Federal...
May 9, 2023 @ 10:46 pm | Breaking News |
Tomorrow, May 10, brings the key CPI inflation report for April. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg are projecting that headline inflation will rise at a 5% year-over-year rate. That would match the 5% headline rate for the Consumer Price Index in March. The headline...
May 8, 2023 @ 10:38 pm | Breaking News |
The next potential BIG volatility day comes on Tuesday, May 9, when President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will hold talks on raising the debt ceiling to avert a U.S. default. I don’t expect a breakthrough of any...
May 8, 2023 @ 10:34 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventieth YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Where Is All That Oil Cash Going to Go? Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next...
May 8, 2023 @ 10:26 pm | Breaking News |
Every once in a while, Yahoo changes “something” on its feed of stock prices. No notification. No clue what to do if the change breaks something on a user’s site. Well, that’s where I found myself and this site again on Friday. We know there...
May 2, 2023 @ 10:38 pm | Breaking News |
This isn’t exactly what the stock market wanted to hear ahead of the Wednesday, May 3, meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee on interest rates. Before the open of the New York Stock Exchange, the Labor Department’s March Job Openings...
May 2, 2023 @ 10:31 pm | Breaking News, MMM |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-seventh YouTube video: Trend of the Week The Pain is Spreading Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free...
April 28, 2023 @ 10:42 pm | Breaking News |
The headline Personal Consumption Expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure, climbed at 4.2% in the year through March. That was a big drop from the 5.1% year-over-year rate in February. (Although, I’d note, economists were...
April 26, 2023 @ 12:54 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-fifth YouTube video: Central Banks to Take Away $1 Trillion in Cash Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years:...
April 26, 2023 @ 12:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT |
Back on March 24, I added shares of Microsoft (MSFT) to my Volatility Portfolio on my subscription JubakAM.com site on the thinking that in a quarter when earnings were projected to be down for the Standard & Poor’s 500 as a whole, reliable technology...
April 24, 2023 @ 11:10 pm | Breaking News |
Important observation out of Morningstar on Friday. While the Morningstar U.S. Market Index is up 15.4% from its bear-market low on October 14, the market is only 1.4% higher than it was at the end of November. AND in recent months, the stock market has been moving in...
April 24, 2023 @ 11:04 pm | Breaking News, ISRG, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Last week Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) surprised everybody, including, apparently, management. Intuitive Surgical’s first-quarter revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $1.7 billion. (Wall Street was expecting $1.6 billion.) Surgical procedures performed using the...
April 24, 2023 @ 10:58 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth YouTube video: Trend of the Week Consumers Are Falling Behind on Their Debt Payments Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing...
April 20, 2023 @ 10:53 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NEM |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-third YouTube video: Quick Pick Newmont Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years: Free download for...
April 20, 2023 @ 10:46 pm | Breaking News, Jim's Extras |
Tesla’s (TSLA) first-quarter earnings, reported yesterday April 19, after the market close, met expectations. But first-quarter automotive gross profit margins came in worse than expected. Tesla reported a profit of 85 cents a share, meeting expectations, on...
April 18, 2023 @ 10:55 pm | Breaking News |
The exact date that the federal government could run out of accounting gimmicks and actually default on the national debt is open to debate. Could be June or July or as late as December or even sometime in 2024. The estimates are all over the block. Which is one...
April 18, 2023 @ 10:50 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixty-first YouTube video: Trend of the Week Banks–It Can Still Get Worse Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5...
April 16, 2023 @ 10:30 pm | Breaking News |
I expect the earnings season story to continue to be dominated by banks. But whereas last week, Friday specifically, was all about big banks, this coming week will be dominated by earnings reports from regional and smaller banks. The very kind of banks that are the...
April 12, 2023 @ 11:25 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifty-ninth YouTube video: Trend of the Week Houston, We Have a Trend Problem Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5...