Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
E Market Briefing For Thursday, March 22
Values remain extended; and the market dances around shy of the S&P inflection zone, identified around the June S&P 2750 area. Today’s reaction to the Fed’s nominal rate hike, and straight-forward ‘news conference’ (see video 2), also conformed to the pattern outlined last night (up if they moved a little, then selling, then a bounce […]
US Dollar Index Seasonality – Best Times To Buy And Sell
Normally we look at charts in chronological order, day after day and year after year. These typical chart types show the price path of an asset or index over days, weeks, months, or years and provide a lot of information for technicians to use. Yet there is another way to view charts, and that is to […]
3 Great REITs To Buy Right Now
The stock market’s strong run over the past few years brought attention to high-flying growth stocks, usually from the technology sector, that were consistently outpacing the market. However, fresh volatility within the last two months has shifted the focus back towards other investment strategies, and now it might be time for investors to check out […]
Powell’s Fed And The Market
The Federal Reserve delivered the widely anticipated hike at Jerome Powell’s first meeting as Chair. The Fed signaled greater confidence in the economy and increased the rate path by adding a hike in 2019 and 2020. While the average forecast (dot) for this year rose, the median continued to anticipate two more rate increases this […]
Central Bank Money Rules The World
Central bank credit that supports markets — is not just creation of the Fed, but by central banks and institutions around the world colluding together. Global markets are too deeply connected these days to consider the Fed in isolation. Since last month’s correction, the world has been watching the Fed because its policies have global […]
Dividend Income February 2018
Each month I publish my dividend income. I do this for staying self motivated and to give you the readers the chance to follow my journey from the beginning on. The dividend income in the first couple of years will be on a very low level but investing in dividend stocks is all about the […]
Sizing Up The Dropbox
The Dropbox (DBX) IPO is well-trod ground at this point. The deal is expected to price on 3/22 and open for trading Friday, 3/23. The company raised the range to $18-20 so we are using the $19 mid-point in our analysis. To add to the general pomp and circumstance, Salesforce (CRM) stepped up to buy $100M of […]
No Hawks Nor Doves, Just Dollar
On January 24, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin either misspoke or let slip a Freudian sort of wish. Extolling a weak rather than strong dollar, it was seemingly a total break from longstanding official US policy. It’s not really a policy anyone takes too seriously, if for no other reason than the dollar isn’t really a […]
