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Up-Down-Up-Down: Canadian Cannabis Volatility Continued Last Week

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Image sourceThe volatility continues! The 5 constituents in munKNEE’s Canadian Cannabis LPs Index were up 1.8% last week after having gone down the previous week, up 12,5% the week before that and down 3.9% the week before that. Below are the performances of the constituents in the Index last week, in descending order, and for the previous […]

Macro: Industrial Production

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Industrial production continues to show negative growth. This was perhaps the most important release of a busy week. It was atleast the one that had the greatest effect on GDPNow (unfortunately to the downside).Freepik This month is much about the auto industry. There have been some headlines about Americans broadly shunning EV’s and inventory building on […]

Weekly Commentary: A Wolf In Panda’s Clothing

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Good to see U.S./China tensions ease. It’s clearly in both countries’ interest. Especially with war raging in Gaza, President Biden could sure use a boost. And China’s faltering Bubble is in more desperate need of a boost than even the President’s poll numbers.FreepikThe Xi Jinping charm offensive was a thing of beauty. “Planet Earth is […]

Gold Weekly Forecast: Buying Intensifies As Dollar Tumbles

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The weekly gold forecast is bullish as the price surged by 2.5% last week. The US Dollar weakened, and US Treasury bond yields declined. The upcoming week lacks significant macroeconomic events, providing an opportunity to focus on the technical analysis of XAU/USD for potential trading opportunities.Freepik Ups and down last weekGold underwent a technical upside correction […]

Does The Fed Deserve Credit For The Disinflation?

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

On November 14, remarkably, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the CPI had been unchanged in October (whether seasonally adjusted or not). That is, the level of the CPI was unchanged, not the inflation rate, which was zero. Of course, single-month numbers are too volatile to draw much of a conclusion. Not every month will see the price […]

Heirloom Crops And Global Warming

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The biggest near-term threat to human civilization from global warming is loss of fresh water and arable land for crops. It turns out that nature has confronted the challenges of increased temperature, increased salinity, disease resistance and violent weather.FreepikRecently, as strain of maize called “Jimmy Red corn” has been resurrected from a population bottleneck in […]

WMA: Bitcoin Back To $36K And Altcoins Retreat Amid Market Contraction

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Pixabay This Week’s Summary The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $1,39 trillion. Bitcoin decreased by over 1.5% to reach around $36,000. Ethereum is down by nearly 5%, dropping under $2,000. XRP lost over 8% in value this week. Almost all altcoins are trading in the red, with some exceptions. The […]

Weekly Forex Forecast – EUR/USD, AUD/USD, Nasdaq 100, Cocoa Futures The Week Ahead: November 20 – November 24

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The difference between success and failure in Forex / CFD trading is highly likely to depend mostly upon which assets you choose to trade each week and in which direction, and not on the exact methods you might use to determine trade entries and exits.PixabaySo, when starting the week, it is a good idea to […]

Recap And Action Plan: Small Caps, Beans, Oil

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

FreepikSince we came back from vacation, I wrote 3 Daily’s.The first one was on the Economic Modern Family and how it opened its loving arms to the bulls.I was particularly keen on small caps or the Russell 2000 IWM.I wrote, “Beginning with IWM or Granddad Russell 2000, Monday began with a gap up over the […]

Carbon Capture Gaining Traction

Nov 19, 2023 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) faces daunting Math. Mike Cembalest, JPMorgan Asset Management’s Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, publishes a well-researched and insightful annual energy paper. In the 13th edition last March, he provided the sobering CCS math that sequestering just 15% of the US’s annual CO2 output would involving the same volume as all the […]