June 19, 2022 @ 2:52 pm | Breaking News |
Friday, June 17, was a modestly up day for most of the indexes. The Standard & Poor’s 500, for example, gained 0.22% and the NASDAQ was up a stronger 1.43%. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.13% on the day.) But you’d never know that the...
November 19, 2021 @ 7:48 pm | Breaking News |
On November 15 in my post on what’s priced in and what’s not, I noted that an upsurge in Covid infections this winter wasn’t priced in. And that evidence of a new wave from Europe where infection rates have headed higher in what might be a preview...
August 17, 2021 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News |
Retail sales dropped 1.1% in July, the Commerce Department reported today, August 17. Sales of furniture, sporting goods, building materials, cars and auto parts were all down strongly in the month. Sales at non-store retailers, which include e-commerce sales, dropped...
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 &...
April 22, 2021 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News |
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twentieth YouTube video “6 picks for next week’s earnings flood” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video....
March 8, 2021 @ 7:44 pm | Breaking News |
Two indexes will tell you what you need to know about today’s stock market action. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, driven by cyclicals, vaccine recovery stocks, and consumer stocks rose to an intraday record high. After a slight retreat at the end of the...
October 27, 2020 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News |
What I like to see–if I’m on the long side of stocks–after a drop like yesterday when the Standard & Poor’s fell 1.86% for its biggest loss in a month and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up 2.29%–is a bounce that speaks to...
September 11, 2020 @ 7:13 pm | Breaking News |
Three stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 were up for every two that were down as the index turned in a day with very little movement–a gain of 0.05% at the close on September 11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead a bit more at 0.48% That...
September 9, 2020 @ 7:33 pm | Breaking News |
They’re back. Tech stocks were back big this morning as the NASDAQ bounced off of its 50-day moving average. As of noon New York time, the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 2.16% and the NASDAQ Composite was ahead 2.69%. The Technology Select Sector SPDR...
September 4, 2020 @ 7:09 pm | Breaking News |
The Standard & Poor’s 500 almost got to break-even late in the day today (at 3:28 p.m. New York time) but stocks couldn’t hold the line. Still the 0.81% loss at the close for the index as much better than the 2.99% loss at 10:45 this morning. That was...
August 26, 2020 @ 7:44 pm | Breaking News |
On Monday the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the NASDAQ Composite hit new all-time highs on what I’m calling the Vaccine Put, the hope that we’ll see the announcement of an approved coronavirus vaccine by early in 2021 or maybe even the end of 2020...
July 20, 2020 @ 7:02 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
This morning shares of Amazon (AMZN) burst higher out of the box, gaining 5.98% as of noon New York time. The catalyst, it appears, was a new target price from Goldman Sachs of $3800 a share, up from the previous target of $3000. The shares had closed at $2961.97 on...
July 15, 2020 @ 7:16 pm | Breaking News |
U.S. stocks broke strongly higher today as Moderna (RNA) disclosed results from an initial safety trial. Investors also got a report on the ITV.com website that new findings from the vaccine candidate being developed at the University of Oxford could be published as...