China stocks rallying on government stimulus plans–I’m buying iShares China FXI
Just because we’ve seen this page from the play book before and just because I’m skeptical about the long-term effects of this policy doesn’t mean I don’t want to own the China rally now. On Monday March 24, I added the iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI) to my Perfect...
Even the best retail stocks aren’t beating fears of a slowdown: I’m selling Walmart and Costco
When the avalanche is roaring down the hill, it really doesn’t matter if you’re wearing the best-rated snow boots. With fears of an economic slowdown punishing the market today, I think it’s more than time to sell my Jubak Picks positions in Walmart (WMT) and Costco...
Two sells before the tariffs start–more to come, I suspect
Stocks moved down slightly on Friday–with the Standard & Poor’s 500 off 0.50% and the NASDAQ Composite down 0.28%–as investors started to revise their belief that President Donald Trump wasn’t really serious about raising tariffs. And they’re down...
Adding Berkshire Hathaway as Pick #9 in my Special Report “10 New Stock Ideas for an Old Rally”
Today I added Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) as Pick #9 in my Special Report “10 New Stock Ideas for an Old Rally” on my JubakAM.com subscription site. Here’s what I wrote in that Special Report. Pick #9: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B). Warren Buffett now has Berkshire...
On my subscription site I made Copa my 5th pick in my Special Report “10 picks for a Yield Draught”
On my subscription site JubakAM.com, I added Copa Holdings (CPA), an airline stock paying 6.9% to my Special Report. Here’s what I wrote Yield Drought Pick #5: Copa Holdings (CPA). Seems unlikely I know–an airline stock paying a forward dividend of 6.90%....
On my subscription site I made Verizon Pick #6 in my Special Report: “3 Strategies and 10 Picks for Juicy Returns in a Yield Drought”
Yesterday on my subscription site, JubakAM.Com, I made Verizon the sixth pick in my Special Report “3 Strategies and 1O Picks for a Yield Drought.” Here’s what I wrote. (Verizon is a member of my Dividend Portfolio.) Yield Drought Pick #6: Verizon (VZ). Let’s be...
Is a guidance cut from Texas Instruments another sign of a top?
Here’s the indicator that I’m watching and my strategy for staying in the market or deciding to step aside. Looking at the aggregate forecast for earnings for the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500, I think it’s reasonable to think that third quarter...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing beats on earnings and raises forecast
Shares of global chipmaking powerhouse Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) rose 9.79% today to hit a record high after the chipmaker topped quarterly estimates and raised its target for 2024 revenue growth. The company—-the main chip manufacturer for Nvidia...
Apple’s Meh! iPhone 16 update begins to bite pre-orders and stock
Apple (AAPL) shares were down 2.78% today, Monday September 16, as pre-order sales to the iPhone 16 showed lower than expected demand for the new phones after a lackluster update that included fewer AI features than competitive smartphones. Pre-order sales, which...
Weak Chinese economy takes toll on copper demand, prices–wait to buy SCCO
China’s copper imports in August dropped by 12.3% from the previous year, preliminary official Chinese customs data showed on Tuesday, September 10. It’s yet another sign that the slowdown in Chinese economy is rippling out into the global economy. Copper...
This market has an AI problem–AI companies aren’t making money
Remember the good old days–say, 2023–when all you had to do was slap AI in the name of a company and the stock would soar? I kept waiting for AI Burgers made from AI cows, or AI Shoes, which used AI machine learning algorithms to tell you what size shoe...
Buy/Sell/Hold: Sell Tesla
Right now Tesla (TSLA) is a case study in how sentiment on a stock changes, how long it takes sentiment to change (and recover), and the stages of sentiment change. Your understanding of this process should be your guide to whether you want to own Tesla stock and...
Buy/Sell/Hold Apple: Sell
Apple (AAPL) shares are down 12% for 2024 to date as of March 5. But I don’t think Apple’s troubles are over. And it will take some pretty fast talking at the June WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) to reverse the downtrend in the shares. Absent a...
Buy, sell, hold: Buy Novo Nordisk NVO
Back on February 20, I posted a YouTube video recommending a buy of Novo Nordisk (NVO). In the video, “Buy GLP-1,” I said that the stock, along with Eli Lilly (LLY) was riding the momentum of increased sales of GLP-1 drugs, originally developed to treat...
Get ready for the Nvidia circus
Can you hear the barkers yelling to the crowd? It’s Wall Street analysts rushing to raise their target prices for Nvidia (NVDA) ahead of next week’s quarterly earnings report. On February 21, after the close, Nvidia is expected to report earnings of $4.18 share, up...
BYD climbs over Tesla to become No. 1 in electric car deliveries in the fourth quarter
This change at the top of the electric car market was widely expected. The only debate was whether it take place in the last quarter of 2023 or early in 2024. Now, we know. With both Tesla (TSLA) and BYD (BYDDF) reporting fourth quarter delivery numbers in the last...
Your 10 Best Stocks for a Core Portfolio–and the “Why” for each pick
I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...My 10 Stocks for the AI Gold Rush–Why these picks?
Artificial intelligence really is a paradigm-breaking, transformative technology. Right now, investors are so enthusiastic about the sector, especially the obvious leader Nvidia (NVDA), that we’re looking at a potential bubble that will collapse with much...
Tesla margins worse than expected and stock tumbles today
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...
The best way to get a 5% yield–my choices and their pluses and minuses
Remember the good ol’ days when Treasuries paid 0% or so and you had to give a bank your toaster to open an account, paying 0.01%? Right now you can find a CD paying 5%–and it doesn’t require locking up your money until the sun goes super-nova...
Adding BHP to my Dividend Portfolio
You have to do a fair amount of work in rearranging the dividend numbers for BHP (BHP) to understand why this diversified commodities producer made my list of safe dividend stocks paying 6% or more. (Subscribers to my paid JubakAM .com site got the whole list of 5.)...
It’s a short week but with lots of potential worry and volatility
What’s on tap for this week? Volatility, volatility, volatility. Even though it’s a short Thanksgiving market week. Worry over the cryptocurrency meltdown of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. According to a Saturday bankruptcy filing in Delaware, FTX owes...
Fed talks; stocks retreat
Is the Federal Reserve now in the business of talking down stock prices whenever investors get too optimistic about interest rates? It sure looked like it today. Today, Wednesday, November 15, New York Fed President John Williams ended the day’s rally when he...
This should be enough to keep the rally going for another day: Netflix beats on earnings, new subscribers
After the close today, Octob er 18, Netflix (NFLX) reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street projections and added far more subscribers than analysts had expected. After falling 1.73% in the regular session, the stock added 14.02% in after-hours...
Hello 3,800 my old friend, the S&P 500 has come to visit with you again–we still don’t have a trend yet
At the moment 3,800 on the Standard & Poor’s 500 is the place the market wants to be. Tumble toward 3,600 and the June low, and the market rallies as it did on Monday. Threaten to dip much below that 3,800 level as the market did today and stocks move back...
Adding General Motors to my Jubak Picks Portfolio today
Yesterday I added General Motors to my 10 Perfect Stock Picks Special Report on my subscription JubakAm.com site. (If you want to subscribe, you probably got a 20% off offer in your email today.) Here’s what I wrote in that Special Report on the buy. My #4 Pick...
Costco demonstrates strength in a very tough environment; keeping it as a portfolio pick
Shares of Costco Wholesale (COST) closed up 2.98% on September 26. The advance against the grain of a generally down market comes after the company announced a beat on both revenue and earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, September 22. The company...
CPI headline inflation likely to dip in Tuesday report–market will cheer; Fed will shrug
All attention on Tuesday morning’s report of Consumer Price Index inflation for August. It is likely to drive stocks higher in a continuation of Friday’s advance. But the report will not change the Federal Reserve’s mind about increasing interest...
CME FedWatch odds of 75 basis points at September 21 meeting rise to 90%–after that the picture gets murky.
According to the CME Fed Watch Tool, which calculates the odds of a Fed move in interest rates by looking at prices in the Fed Funds Futures market, the odds of a 75 basis point interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve at its September 21 meeting have climbed to...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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