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4 Dividend-Yielding Oil Stocks To Buy As Prices Rise

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Oil prices recovered on Friday after a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and forecasts from leading financial institutions indicated that prices may have bottomed out. This follows a steady recovery in oil prices from their late January lows. Since then, oil prices have rallied nearly 45% to hover around the $40 mark. […]

Retirement FinTech Gets Another Suitor – Goldman Sachs

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

No sooner had I written “Financial Technology and the Fiduciary Rule,” an invitation to the Future of Finance 2016 appeared in my in-box with the call-out that “Technology is about to revolutionise financial services.” (Note the British spelling for this Oxford conference.) Based on session titles, attendees will hear about topics such as how technology can: Be […]

SP 500 And NDX Futures Daily Charts – Little Conviction In ZombieLand

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Stocks drifted higher during much of this very low volume, sleepy day. They gave up the best of their gains into the close. This is a market that is ‘marking time’ for a catalyst, perhaps the FOMC meeting on Wednesday the 16th. There is little expectation that the Fed will do anything at this meeting, […]

Still Slowing In China

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Industrial production for the combined January/February period in China fell to just 5.4%, matching the lowest growth rate of the past fourteen years. Only the January/February 2002 IP rate was lower, but that was a single data point giving way to the rising financialization of the late eurodollar period. In 2016, these decelerations are commonplace, […]

The Cooper Companies Holds Annual Meeting Of Stockholders

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

PLEASANTON, Calif., March 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At its annual meeting held on Monday, March 14, 2016 in Pleasanton, California, the stockholders of The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO) elected seven directors, ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s auditors for fiscal 2016 and approved the amendment and restatement of the 2007 Long-Term […]

Questions For The Valeant Conference Call

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Valeant (VRX) is planning to have a conference call before Tuesday’s open to “discuss preliminary fourth quarter 2015 financial results and update 2016 financial guidance”. It is “preliminary” because numbers have not been audited yet. I expect an audit statement to be coming. I have never had a major problem with Valeant’s GAAP numbers (which […]

Market Starting To Price In Hikes – Very Slowly

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

In the wake of an allegedly “welcome” increase in inflation, the market is starting to price in increasing odds of rate hikes – not many, and not fast, but there are very noticeable changes. The Fed starts a two-day meeting tomorrow. Its interest rate decision comes Wednesday. Despite the talk of a hike tomorrow, the […]

Ride On The Solid Growth Potential Of These 5 Stocks

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

If the first two and a half months is any indication to go by, the equity markets in 2016 will continue to be plagued by headwinds similar to those that hurt stock performance last year. These include oil price volatility, the bearish Chinese stock market, Fed’s tug-of-war with interest rates and the strengthening of the […]

Modeling Economic Success Of Poland And Failure In Russia And Ukraine. The 2015 Model Revision

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

In 2005, I developed and presented at the Fourth Annual EEFS Conference (Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal 19-22 May 2005) a paper “Modelling the transition from a socialist to capitalist economic system” (Slide Share). An extended and updated version was published in the JAES in 2009. My model predicts the measured evolution of […]

New Answers On DB, GM, Private Equity Stocks, And More

Mar 14, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

I’ve decided to make this Q&A a regular feature Last week the S&P 500 leaped nearly 2% and the Dow closed above 17000 for the second week in a row. I sent you an alert over the weekend explaining that this is really a bear market rally and we shouldn’t expect these highs to last. […]