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EUR/USD Bullish Bounce Faces Resistance Before ECB Rate Decision

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

EUR/USD 4 hour The EUR/USD is facing an interest rate decision later today by the European Central Bank (ECB), which could cause strong price movement and volatility. From a wave perspective, price could be finishing a wave 1 (blue) and ready for a retracement back to the Fibonacci levels of wave 2 (blue). These Fib […]

4 Stocks Destined For Disaster

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

As a venture capital analyst — one who’s even helped raise capital myself — I’m agitated but not shocked by the news coming out of Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN). The company only IPO’d a few short months ago — back in June. Yet we just learned that the fledgling meal kit-maker will lay off 6% […]

Passive Investors Beware Of Lopsidedness

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

A curious trend has emerged within one of the world’s major equity benchmarks: the S&P 500. As passive or index investors should be well aware, their portfolios will change over time as the index changes. So it’s arguably a key development that the S&P 500 has become increasingly lopsided. The chart comes from the latest […]

The Difference Between Keynesian Kaleido-Static Reasoning And Mainstream Methodology

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

by Philip Pilkington In order to give an adequate definition of what has been called Keynesian kaleido-statics it is first relevant to define it against that out of which it grew. Keynes’ work, as has been noted many times, grew out of the work of Alfred Marshall. Keynes, in a very real sense, should be […]

Energy ETFs Head To Head: XLE Vs. VDE

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The energy sector is garnering a lot of investor attention lately. With increasing geopolitical tensions, talks of further OPEC cuts and decreasing production, oil prices are having a good time. Reason Behind the Appeal OPEC is scheduled to meet on Nov 30, 2017 to decide on the future of oil production cuts. The markets believe […]

All Eyes On ECB

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The euro firmed against the dollar on Thursday as traders await the European Central Bank’s plans for curbing its bond-buying program which is expected to be released later on Thursday. As of 12:40 p.m. HK/SIN, the euro was up 0.11 percent to $1.1824. The euro also posted gains against the pound and the Swiss franc […]

You May Not Be Glad About This 7.5% Yield

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

I’m a fan of business development companies (BDCs) that invest in private businesses and typically pay big dividends to shareholders. Gladstone Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: GAIN) is a BDC that offers a 7.5% yield and pays shareholders monthly. Gladstone recently increased its dividend to $0.065 per share. It will also pay a special $0.06 per share dividend […]

Euro Eyes ECB Policy Update, Bias Favors Weakness

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

All eyes are on the ECB monetary policy announcement in European hours. President Mario Draghi and company are widely expected to “taper” the size of monthly QE asset purchases while extending the program beyond 2017. Baseline expectations envision halving the current pace of uptake from €60 to €30 billion and pushing the expiration date out by nine […]

The Federal Reserve Strikes Again!

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

With a concerned look on his face, my friend John said, “A special assessment would be close to $5,000 per home.” My wife Jo and I live in a Del Webb community in the Phoenix suburbs. Our community is responsible for maintaining our own roads. Here is the conversation that followed: John – “Most roads […]

Daimler One-Ups Elon Again; Reveals Electric Semi-Truck Weeks Before Tesla

Oct 26, 2017 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Weeks before Tesla was supposed to shock the world by revealing their battery-powered semi-truck, Mercedes has once again one-upped the Silicon Valley darling by beating them to the punch. As Bloomberg points out, earlier Daimler revealed their E-Fuso Vision One prototype, an electric semi-truck that can carry 11 tons of cargo some 220 miles before having to […]