Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
7 Low Price-To-Sales Stocks With Favorable Growth Dynamics
A stock’s price-to-sales ratio reflects how much investors are paying for each dollar of revenues generated by the company. If the price-to-sales ratio is 1, it means that investors are paying $1 for every $1 of revenues generated by the company. So, it goes without saying that a stock with a price-to-sales below 1 is […]
There’s Blood In The Water For Emerging Markets – Again
It’s falling apart for emerging markets again. Earlier this month, as the lira collapsed and emerging market equities fell into a bear market, it became abundantly clear that the dollar needed to take a pause in the interest of preventing an outright meltdown in developing economies. The key thing to understand about U.S. equities summiting […]
Alternatives To Money Markets
Robert Powell, editor of Retirement Daily, responds to one of his readers, who asks him for suggestions for safe and liquid options for earning more than the 1.5% money market rate for their cash savings. —– The safest and most liquid include money market funds and certificates of deposit. For his part, Chris Grande, a principal […]
Brazil Central Bank Intervenes As Real Crashes Near Record Lows
The bloodbath in Argentina and Turkey is evident in Brazil also where Bloomberg reports that the central bank just intervened for the first time since June 22. BCB reportedly intervened at 4.20 “to provide liquidity” adding that intervention intensity and frequency will depend on the market. The BCB also attempted to provide some confidence by reaffirming that monetary policy is […]
The Last Hurrah Before The Dark Years
This is it! The autumn of 2018 will be momentous in the world economy, markets and politics. We are now seeing the Last Hurrah for stocks, bonds, the dollar and most asset markets. The world economy has been living on borrowed time since the 2006-9 crisis. The financial system should have collapsed at that time. But […]
5 Tech ETFs Leading The Surge This Week
Wall Street has regained momentum this week. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq surged to record highs for the fourth consecutive day driven by the surge in the information technology sector, which is most vulnerable to trade wars. This is especially true as optimism over trade negotiations and solid rebound in broad-based technology and Internet stocks […]
Weekly Unemployment Claims: Up 3K – Thursday, August 30
Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending August 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 213,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 210,000. The 4-week moving average was 212,250, a decrease of 1,500 from the previous week’s unrevised average of […]
Equities – Another Record High
Equities – Stocks Ramp Further This has been an amazing summer for stocks. The party kept going on Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up 0.57% and the Nasdaq was up 0.99%. Amazon stock was up 3.4% which gives it a market cap of $932 billion. Amazon announced it will be unveiling a free ad-supported video […]
Real Income And Spending Rise 0.2 Percent In July: Prices Rise 0.1 Percent
Income and spending was in line with expectations in July. Revisions were mostly lower. The BEA’s Personal Income and Outlays report shows personal income increased $54.8 billion (0.3 percent) in July. Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $52.5 billion (0.3 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $49.3 billion (0.4 percent). Real DPI increased 0.2 percent […]
The Big Picture 18-24-Month Outlook: Some Preliminary Projections
The winding down of the North’s summer provides a suitable time to consider not the near-term outlook, which many investors do on a daily basis, but to reflect on where we are heading down the road a bit. What will the next 18-24 months hold? Of course, we harbor no illusions of prescient vision and […]
