Please watch my new YouTube video: Trend of the Week A New Commodity Super Cycle
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My eighty-ninth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: A new commodity super cycle” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video....
People’s Bank supports markets (and Evergrande) a little bit
I’d call the policy being followed by the People’s Bank in the China Evergrande crisis “Try to support the markets but see how little we can get away with.” Today China’s central bank supplied liquidity (About $18 billion worth) to the...
Will a 5% drop bring out the buy on the dippers? Not, I’d argue, until the People’s Bank makes a move
The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell another 1.70% today and it’s now down 3.94% from the September 2 high. As the index dropped last week (again) and over the weekend, lots of Wall Street money managers said Hey, stocks were over-valued and news from...
Stocks extend growth fears, selling today–how far does this go?
Today, Monday, July 19, stocks accelerated their retreat from the end of last week on fears that a fourth wave of the pandemic, fueled by the Delta variant, will crush hopes that the economy is headed back to normal. As of the close New York the Standard &...
Wednesday copper price played a little catch up with copper stocks
Copper stocks have been moving steadily higher recently in anticipation of a turn in the eight week downward trend in the price of copper itself. Now the price of copper is showing some of the upward movement that the rally in copper stocks anticipated. For example,...
Apparently everybody decided today that tomorrow’s March jobs report will show accelerating economic growth
With the financial markets closed tomorrow for Good Friday, traders and investors jumped in to buy today ahead of what is expected to be a jobs report tomorrow morning showing unemployment dropping to 6.0% (by the official measure) from 6.2% in February. The Standard...
So why did stocks reverse their morning plunge and finish with a strong up day?
Maybe it was just investors and traders having second thoughts about selling stocks on a day when the economy delivered a surprisingly strong jobs report for February. After all, isn’t stronger economic growth a good thing for company revenue and earnings? Maybe...
A wild day for stock gains–although you wouldn’t know it from the indexes
At the close today the Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.19%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended dead even. The NASDAQ Composite “soared” 0.07%. It wasn’t until you looked at the Russell 2000 small cap index that you saw any signs of...
Market sees fourth quarter GDP slowdown as good news
U.S. GDP growth slowed in the fourth quarter, gaining just 1% from the third quarter. For the full year the U.S. economy contracted by 3.5%. That makes 2020 the first time that the economy has contracted for a full year since 2009 and the Great Recession. At the...
Adding copper miner Freeport to Jubak Picks Portfolio tomorrow
Commodities have soared on prospects for a post-coronavirus vaccine economic recovery. And copper is one of the best commodities to own in order to in the recovery of the global economy–and especially the growth in the Chinese economy–as the coronavirus...
Selling First Quantum Minerals today in bear market rally
I still like my long-term thesis for copper miner First Quantum Minerals (FQVLF)–that copper prices will rise with a pick up in global economic growth and that when growth resumes the world will be looking at a shortage of copper. First Quantum has a lot of new...
Copper meeting bullish on projected supply deficit
The big Cesco copper conference in Santiago, Chile, has been remarkably bullish considering worries about global economic growth and the Chinese economy. That’s because there looks like a significant gap in the development of new supplies in 2019 and 2020 that...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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