Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
S&P 500 Near January Peak As Record-Setting Earnings Season Winds Down
Sparkling. Spectacular. Stellar. Sterling. Stupendous. Super. …and those are just the adjectives starting “Sp” through “Su” that describe Q2 earnings season for the S&P 500. Through Friday, 91% of the companies in the S&P 500 had reported earnings, and according to the earnings mavens at FactSet, this earnings season has broken all sorts of records. […]
Bearish USD/JPY Sequence Keeps Downside Targets On Radar
JAPANESE YEN TALKING POINTS USD/JPY dips to a fresh monthly-low (110.11) as the latest adjustment in U.S. trade policy fuels the risk for a global trade war, and recent price action keeps the near-term outlook tilted to the downside as the exchange rate continues to carve a series of lower highs & lows. BEARISH USD/JPY SEQUENCE […]
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Nubank Is Latest LatAm Unicorn
VC investments in Latin America doubled in 2017 to over $1 billion and over $600 million were invested in the first quarter of 2018. A beneficiary of this trend is Brazilian FinTech startup Nubank, which recently entered the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club. Nubank’s Offerings São Paulo-based Nubank was founded in 2013 by David Vélez to offer a fair and […]
Monetary Consequence Of Tariffs
Last week in Monetary Paradigm Reset, we talked about the challenge of explaining a new paradigm. We said: “The hard part of accepting this paradigm shift was that people had to rethink their entire view of cosmology, theology, and philosophy. In the best case, people take time to grapple with these challenges to their idea of […]
China’s Coming Austrian Collapse
“The coming collapse of China” has been predicted many times. Indeed, an excellent book of that title was a best-seller back in 2001. Yet the fictitiousness of Chinese economic statistics remains, and the over-leverage in the economy worsens. Like several other successful non-market economies, China has successfully sought rents from other countries through flaws in […]
More Signs That The Stock Market Will Rally Until 2019
The S&P 500 is right under all-time highs. An upside breakout in the next few weeks/months is very likely. Based on where the Medium-Long Term Model is right now and the rate at which data is progressing, this bull market probably has 1 year left. Over the past week we have seen a few more signs that […]
How To Obtain Leverage Without Margin Or Loans
Tamara buys a stock market index (VTI) and reinvests her dividends. She doesn’t use leverage. She began investing exactly ten years ago and has made 178% on her investments, for an annualized return of 10.76%. Her initial $100,000 investment is now worth $278,000. Jessika buys the same stock market index and reinvests her dividends. But she does use […]
Netflix Dips As CFO Departs
Netflix shares down 1.5% in the pre-market after news that CFO David Wells will be leaving the firm “to pursue philanthropy” as the firm faces growing competition and cash burn. The press release signals a business as usual exit of the CFO – who has been with Netflix since 2004 (and has served as CFO since […]
E Forex Analysis Of USD/JPY For Monday, August 13
First, we look into the previous day trade and what happened on August 10, 2018, and the USD/JPY pair opened at 110.073 and went high at 111.161 and gone low 110.502 and finally closed at 110.922. The calculated pivot point for the day is 110.861. The difference between high and low was nearly 0.659 points […]
Gold: Bearish Fundamentals, Bullish Sentiment
For the first time this year, about two weeks ago the sentiment backdrop became decisively supportive of the gold price and remains so. At the same time, the fundamental backdrop is unequivocally bearish for gold. What will be the net effect of these counteracting forces? Before attempting to answer the above question let’s briefly review […]
