September 24, 2024 @ 6:12 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO |
There was a whiff of panic to the big moves by the People’s Bank today. China’s central bank cut a key short-term interest rate and announced plans to reduce the reserve ratio, the amount of money banks must hold in reserve, to the lowest level since at least 2018....
September 12, 2024 @ 5:03 pm | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, 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...
September 14, 2023 @ 5:51 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO |
The People’s Bank of China cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve for the second time this year. The move is an effort to boost flagging economic growth in China. The bank could have cut its benchmark interest rate in pursuit of the same goal. But...
June 14, 2023 @ 12:32 pm | ADBE, ALB, AMAT, Breaking News, CMI, Dividend Income Portfolio, GOOG, JCI, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT, NVDA, SCCO, ZBH |
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,...
June 14, 2023 @ 12:25 pm | ADBE, ALB, AMAT, Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell, CMI, Dividend Income Portfolio, GOOG, JCI, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MSFT, SCCO, ZBH |
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,...
January 17, 2022 @ 9:54 pm | ALB, Breaking News, FQVLF, SCCO, SQM |
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....
September 20, 2021 @ 7:30 pm | ALB, Breaking News |
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...
September 15, 2021 @ 10:54 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-seventh YouTube video “Time to Worry About China Too” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
August 17, 2021 @ 6:58 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
On Monday the Chinese government reported that the country’s economy slowed more than expected in July. Retail sales were crimped by tough new virus restrictions introduced toward the end of the month to contain fresh outbreaks. Retail sales rose by 8.5% near...
August 16, 2021 @ 7:04 pm | Breaking News |
The Chinese government reported today that the country’s economy slowed more than expected in July. Retail sales were crimped by tough new virus restrictions introduced toward the end of the month to contain fresh outbreaks. Retail sales rose by 8.5% near over...
July 19, 2021 @ 7:06 pm | Breaking News |
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 &...
July 6, 2021 @ 7:28 pm | Breaking News |
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its affiliated oil producers (OPEC+) abandoned their Monday meeting after days of tense talks failed to result in an agreement on a tentative deal to increase production, and even over how to measure production....
June 24, 2021 @ 6:52 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
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,...
June 21, 2021 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News |
To continue from my last post: Second, I think it’s just as important to recognize that even though the market is very slow and very reluctant to abandon a profitable long-tern macro story, it is very comfortable and indeed very adept at recognizing shorter term...
June 21, 2021 @ 7:21 pm | Breaking News |
Remember way back at the beginning of last week? That is before the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that more of the members of its Open Market Committee were thinking about raising interest rates sooner than previously expected. Re-opening stocks, value stocks,...
May 12, 2021 @ 10:24 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, IFNNY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, SCCO, USB |
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twenty-third YouTube video “Five Stocks for an Inflation Scare” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
May 11, 2021 @ 7:11 pm | Breaking News, DE, SCCO |
Sure looks like a market struggling with rotations between growth and value stocks. One day the growth stocks sell off on fears of higher interest rates and rising inflation or something–and because after such a strong rally in the style growth stocks are very...
April 1, 2021 @ 7:34 pm | AMAT, AMZN, ASML, Breaking News, FCX, FQVLF, GOOG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO |
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...
March 5, 2021 @ 6:56 pm | Breaking News |
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...
February 23, 2021 @ 11:15 am | Breaking News, Buy Hold Sell |
Yesterday tech tumbled but utilities, commodities like copper and even gold, and many “vaccine recovery” plays gained. Today almost everything is down. Which to me is a sign that this now 6-day downturn is getting closer to an end. Right now, as of 1:30...
February 19, 2021 @ 7:28 pm | Breaking News |
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...
January 28, 2021 @ 6:54 pm | AG, Breaking News, DIS, FQVLF, GDX, GOLD, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, MGM, SCCO |
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...
January 5, 2021 @ 5:49 pm | Breaking News, Buy, FCX, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
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...
November 30, 2020 @ 10:30 pm | Breaking News, FCX, SCCO, ZNH |
China’s official Purchasing Managers Index for Manufacturing rose to 52.1 in November. The was up from 51.4 in October. And beat the 51.5 median estimate from economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The index for the non-manufacturing sector climbed to 56.4 in...
October 13, 2020 @ 6:27 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, SCCO |
In my just completed Special Report: “Your Investment Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market Months” on my JubakAM.Com site I wrote that I’d look to add some coronavirus recovery stocks to my portfolio during weakness in the November time...
June 11, 2019 @ 7:30 pm | ALB, Breaking News, FQVLF, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO, SQM, Volatility |
I think the strong move in commodities stocks today has more to do with continued weakness in the U.S. dollar than it does with any renewed faith in growth in the global economy. After all the U.S.-China trade war doesn’t look any more settled today than it did...
April 8, 2019 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News, FQVLF, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO, Volatility |
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...
December 20, 2017 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News, Buy, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO |
Way back on August 17 I finished off a bullish story on the copper sector with the promise of some stock picks. My apologies: I left that string dangling. But today I’m using the third of my 12 Stock Picks of Christmas to add Southern Copper (SCCO) to my...