Adding yen exposure to Jubak Picks and Volatility Portfolios
On December 27 I switched to the Invesco Currency Shares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) from the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA) in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio (on my subscription sites JugglingWithKnives.com and JubakAM.com) in an effort to get more yen exposure...
Apple cuts revenue forecast, drops 7.6% in after-hours trading
Will Apple’s (AAPL) warning spook stocks tomorrow, Thursday, January 3, to a degree that bad economic news out of China didn’t today? After the close in New York Apple CEO Tim Cook dramatically lowered the company’s estimates for sales in the...
Why predicting a bottom for this bear is so hard: More lessons from the charts
Once stocks have wound up in the jaws of a bear market, the most pressing question is when/where will it end? Which is tough to predict because we have a relatively small data set to project from–we’ve only had 12 bear markets (using the 20% drop from a...
Pulling the plug on any significant end of the year rally: Selling small cap Russell 2000 ETF
Going into December, I thought there was enough chance of a strong end of the year rally/ January effect rally to make taking a risk on small company stocks a reasonable call. Even though the entire market looked shaky in the longer term. (That is in 2019.) With the...
My second global warming pick is Jubak Picks member Xylem
Xylem (XYL) One of the “ironies” (for lack of a better word) of Global Warming is that it will put lots of water where many people don’t want it, and it will leave many regions that have enough water now thirsty, and it will threaten to turn many existing supplies of...
Buying Pfizer for my Dividend Portfolio
I’m going to take advantage of the selling in the market in general and in the drug sector in particular–on news of the asbestos liability at Johnson & Johnson and fears of the death of Obamacare (AKA the Affordable Care Act)–to buy Pfizer (PFE) in my Dividend...
Selling Citigroup out of my Dividend Portfolio
I’ve done a decent job in 2018 of staying away from the plunging financial sector–except in my Dividend Portfolio. There, sucked (or “suckered” if you prefer) by high dividend yields and the prospects of rising net interest margins as the Federal Reserve raised...
Adding Vulcan Materials, first Global Warming pick, to 50 Stocks Portfolio
Today I made Vulcan Materials (VMC) my first pick in my Special Report: Is Your Portfolio Ready for Global Warming and I’m also adding the shares to my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio. As the most recent hurricanes have confirm, the Southeastern United States is...
Pioneer authorizes huge increase in buyback program in note of confidence on cash flow
We all know that companies can authorize stock buybacks and never carry them out, but, nonetheless the big new buyback program authorized by Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) is a significant sign that of the company’s confidence in its cash flow. (As well as an...
Oil gains on Trump-Xi “success, Russia-Saudi “deal,” and actual production cuts from Alberta
As of 2:30 p.m. New York time U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate was up 3.04% to $52.48 a barrel. International benchmark Brent crude gained 2.84% to break back above $60 a barrel at $61.15. Part of the reason for the gain is a general sigh of relief that the...
Incyte knocking on the door of a new upward trend after today’s 6% pop
Reports of results from the December 1-4 meeting of the American Society of Hematology continue to move biotech stocks. Today it was Incyte’s (INCY) turn. The company announced positive results for a Phase 2 trial evaluating Incyte’s Jakafi in combination...
Jubak Picks member Salesforce beats on earnings, raises guidance for 2019 and 2020
Salesforce (CRM) started today to the upside based on last night’s earnings beat of 11 cents a share. Salesforce shares were up 4.57% as of noon New York time today. And then came the market-wide bounce after Fed chair Jerome Powell’s speech suggesting...
Ionis Pharmaceuticals showing strong recovery on research pipeline, tweaking price target higher
It’s been a wild 2018 for Jubak Picks portfolio stock Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS.) Right now, though, the shares are on an upward trend. That’s likely to continue with the company looking at a strong research presentation at the December 1-4 meeting of...
Mixed news in Alibaba’s new Singles’ Day sales record
The 10th annual Singles’ Day sales frenzy on November 11 resulted in a new record at China’s Alibaba (BABA) for one-day sales of $213.5 billion yuan ($30.7 billion.) This year merchandise sales for the world’s largest off-line and on-line shopping...
50 Best Stocks Portfolio pick Pioneer Natural Resources gives back a bit of its post earnings pop
On Monday, after the close of the New York market, Permian Basin oil shale power Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) reported third quarter earnings of $2.07 a share, 39 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus projection. Revenue climbed 112.2% year over year to...
Buying shares of small caps ETF for my Jubak Picks Portfolio today
In my Special Report “How to Protect Our Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio” (available to subscribers to my JubakAM.com site) I made the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) my third Portfolio Protection Pick. Today I’m adding it to my Jubak Picks...
How could Apple be so stupid?
Let’s see. You’re a company running into serious global headwinds in a maturing (or mature market) that are raising huge doubts about your ability to increase unit sales quarter to quarter for your core product. You: a) Grimly admit that unit sales are...
Buy Salesforce My Newest Big Thing Stock for Jubak Picks Portfolio
My apologies that I didn’t get this post up last night but I had a short, strange, and very scary attack of vertigo at the end of my working day and missed that deadline. Everything seems to be fine today so here’s the post. When I added Salesforce.com...
Facebook rises after-hours as disappointing growth not as bad as bears expected
It really, really helps if lots of traders and investors hate your stock going into earnings. Then you can, as Facebook (FB) did today, announce quarterly results that fall short on revenue ($13.73 billion versus consensus projections for $13.8 billion), and daily...
Autoliv shares move up as future outweighs past
Before the market open today, Autoliv (ALV) delivered disappointing earnings for the third quarter. But the stock still climbed on news that China is considering cutting the tax on car purchases to 5% from 10% in an effort to stimulate the country’s auto market...
I’m selling GE out of my Dividend Portfolio ahead of tomorrow’s earnings report
General Electric (GE) is scheduled to finally report third quarter earnings tomorrow. Wall Street is looking for earnings per share of 20 cents for the quarter on revenue of $29.94 billion. I’m expecting that new CEO Lawrence Culp, the former CEO of Jubak Picks...
Amazon falls after hours on disappointing guidance
Shares of Amazon (AMZN) climbed 7.09%, 117.97 points, in the regular session today on hopes for a good earnings report after the market close. The company delivered an earnings beat for the current quarter, reporting earnings of $5.75 a share, $2.66 better than the...
Incyte news continues to rebuild credibility of pipeline
Shares of Incyte (INCY) climbed 2.51% today on the announcement of positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial, GEOMETRY mono-1, evaluating MET inhibitor capmatinib in 94 adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The company presented the data at...PayPal pops on earnings report
PayPal Holdings (PYPL) closed up 9.42% today to $84.78 on third quarter earnings, announced after the close yesterday, that beat Wall Street projections. Analysts had expected 54 cents a share against a report of 58 cents a share. Revenue of $3.68 billion beat the...
Oil sells off as Hurricane Michael goes from “rumor” to “fact”
Today’s drop in oil prices looks to me to be a classic buy on the rumor sell on the fact trade. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate dropped 2.81% today to $72.85. International benchmark Brent crude fell 2.68% to $82.72 a barrel. Yesterday oil moved up as...
Oil moves higher today on Hurricane Michael, IEA supply warning
U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 0.7% today to close at $74.81 a barrel. International benchmark Brent crude rose 1.23% to $84.94 a barrel. The International Energy Agency warned of what it termed a “risky situation; the oil markets are...
Why Nektar is extremely oversold right now
The longs and the shorts continue to battle over Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR.) Right now the shorts have the best of that fight. No contest. The shares of this biotech fell another 1.24% today to close at $51.71. A little more than a month ago they were at $68.49. But I...
Lions Gate Entertainment climbs again on Tuesday, October 2
Investors and traders are sure acting like they believe the Hollywood studio will be an acquisition target–soon–by one of the companies engaged in the heated battle to gain traction in the market for streaming media. The speculation right now points to...
Buying Naspers in my Jubak Picks Portfolio
As I wrote in my Special Report: “10 Picks for the Emerging Markets Bounce,” (on my subscription JubakAm.com site) I’m adding Naspers (NPSNY) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio. It’s unlikely that you know much about this South African Internet...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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