Watch my new YouTube Video: Why the Fed is bluffing on interest rates
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My eighty-first YouTube video “Why the Fed is bluffing on interest rates” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s...
Li-Cycle Holdings gets pounded today on really good news
Li-Cycle Holdings LICY), a recycler of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to supply LG Chem, Korea’s largest diversified chemical company and LG Energy Solution, a leader in the market for lithium-ion batteries...
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Watch my new YouTube video: Trend of the Week 10-Year Treasury Notes are Tracking Volatility
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My eightieth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Ten-Year Treasury Notes are Tracking Volatility” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my...
China seen as adding stimulus to its economy in early 2022
Economists predict that China will add significant stimulus to its economy early in 2022. That’s just speculation at this point but it makes very solid sense given: 1. The likely slowdown in China’s economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2021. 2. A...
Enter my free Sweepstakes and win a year’s subscription to my $199 JubakAM.com investment site
Yep, it’s Sweepstakes time! Nothing to buy! Free to enter! And I’m giving away 3 subscriptions in a random drawing on December 17. All you have to do is enter (for free) using this link: JubakAM Sweepstakes So here’s the deal: I’ll pick three entries at random to win...
Watch my new YouTube video: QuickPick Shimano Update
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-ninth YouTube video “QuickPick Shimano Update” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
CPI inflation ran at 6.8% annual rate in November–exactly what economists had projected so stocks moved higher
Stocks rose today, December 10, as a huge jump in CPI inflation exactly matched economists’ projections. As they say on the basketball court, “No surprise; no foul.” The Consumer Price Index (CPI) climbed at a 6.8% annual rate in November....
Ford Motor moves strongly higher on news of huge pre-orders for electric F-150 Lightning pickup
Ford Motor (F) CEO Jim Farley said yesterday, December 9, that pre-orders for the soon-to-launch F-150 Lightning pickup truck are so great that it had to stop taking reservations. “We are completely oversubscribed with our battery electric vehicles, Lightning...
Watch my new YouTube video: Look Out for Earnings Season
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-eighth YouTube video “Look Out for Earnings Season” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
CVS Health raises dividend and 2022 revenue guidance
CVS Health (CVS) will raise its annual dividend by 10% to $2.20 from $2.00 effective with the dividend payout scheduled for February 1. The company has also authorized a $10 billion share buyback program. The company also raised guidance for the full 2021 year to...
Market holds reasonably steady ahead of tomorrow’s CPI report expected to show 6.8% annual inflation rate
Tomorrow’s inflation report–the Consumer Price Index (CPI) flavor–has the potential to end the recent uptick in stocks and send prices back down and volatility back up. Right now economists surveyed by Bloomberg are expecting a year over year...
Post-Pandemic-Stimulus “excess” savings look set to disappear for low income consumers in early 2022–that’s not a plus for U.S. economic growth
Lags are one of the toughest things to get right in figuring out how the economy operates and where it’s headed. For the last half of 2021 as the big Pandemic stimulus cash flows first fell and then dried up completely, economists have been looking for signs of...
Remember that volatility creates volatility–time to look to some tax loss selling (like Nektar)
With the VIX “fear index” falling back closer to “normal” levels–it dropped to 21.89 yesterday from 31.12 on December 1–it sure feels like the extreme volatility of the end of November and early December is on the ebb. The move to...
Congress reaches a deal on plan to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. default
Republicans and Democrats have agreed on a plan to raise the government’s debt ceiling–it’s not simple or elegant and it has the reminds me of one of those Rube Goldberg machines that use a bowling ball to feed the dog. But, I’ll take it to avoid a...
Back to the races: S&P 500 up 2.08% this morning as Omicron fears abate
Here we go again. It’s not that we really have any more information about the Omicron Variant–we certainly don’t know what its effects will be on global economic acuity–but just as fears that the Covid-19 variant would send the world back into...
Watch my new YouTube video–Trend of the Week: EVs Aren’t Only Cars
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-seventh YouTube video “Trend of the Week: EVs Aren’t Only Cars” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video....
Adding Bristol-Myers Squibb to my Jubak Picks Portfolio tomorrow
As I noted in my posts over the weekend, I think that along with all the general volatility and the rotation away from high moment and higher price-to-earnings ratio technology stocks, the last week or so saw a rotation into “safe” haven stocks such as...
China’s stocks gain as People’s Bank cuts bank reserve requirements
It’s the People’s Bank to the rescue. Today, December 7, the People’s Bank of China announced that it would reduce the reserve requirement for most banks in China by 05 percentage points on December 15. The move has the effect of releasing 1.2...
Watch my new YouTube video: 4 Picks for the Omicron Wave
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-fifth YouTube video “4 Picks for the Omicron Wave” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s...
Be careful out there: This is one insanely volatile market both on the up and down sides
Want to know exactly how volatile the stock market is right now? Yesterday investors and traders got news that the first case of the Omicron Variant had been recorded in California. On that, and some “We’ll tighten sooner than expected” remarks from...
A stock isn’t a buy just because it’s cheaper than it was–Lessons from Disney on when to buy on the dip
After a huge rally like we’re had this year, it’s easy to fall into one of the most common buy on the dip traps. Just because a stock is cheaper than it was, it’s not necessarily a bargain. There’s nothing that says a stock has to return to its...
Watch my new YouTube video: Quick Pick Wells Fargo
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-fourth YouTube video “Quick Pick Wells Fargo” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
Danaher is Pick #6 for end of the year momentum and raising target price in Jubak Picks
It’s hard today, November 30, to find any stock with the kind of momentum that I’m looking for in the last month of 2021. Apple (AAPL) looks like a good possibility, which is why I made it Pick #5 in my Market Melt Up Special Report on my subscription site...
Why is Apple green today when everything else is red?
Even as losses accelerate for almost all stocks as we head into the close today–the Standard & Poor’s 500, which was down 1.31% at 2:30 In New York had moved to a loss of 1.74% as of 3:30–shares of Apple (AAPL) continue to hang onto the green....
Federal Reserve’s Powell stops calling inflation “transitory” and stocks tank–except for Apple
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell retired the word “transitory” to describe stubbornly high inflation in testimony today in front of the Senate Banking Committee. And, Powell continued, the Fed might accelerate the pace at which it is winding down its purchase of...
Watch my new YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Bank Stocks”
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-third YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Bank Stocks” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s the...
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet,Adobe, Applied Materials and other big techs rally hard–rest of stocks not so much
Today, Monday November 29, it’s a tale of two bounces from Friday’s big sell off. Technology stocks and especially big technology stocks are up big. At the close in New York Applied Materials was up 5.53%. Adobe (ADBE) was ahead 3.83%. Nvidia (NVDA) was...
Selling Zebra Technologies out of Jubak Picks tomorrow
When I bought Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) back on June 28, 2021, I thought the stock was moderately over-valued. But that, like many over-valued stocks with momentum, it would move higher. I set a target price then of $596 a share. Well, moderately over-valued has...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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