Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Best And Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks On Earnings
Below is a look at the 30 best and 30 worst performing S&P 500 stocks on their earnings reaction days this season. DISH Network (DISH) posted a one-day gain of 14.53% on August 3rd following earnings, and that has held up as the best performer in the S&P 500 this season. Advanced Micro (AMD) ranks […]
Market Talk – Monday, August 13
Asia suffered from the Friday hangover with most core indices falling over -1.5%. All eyes and ears continued to focus on Turkey again today and especially seeing the Lira opened with a 7 handle. It has been scrambling to recover opening losses and did manage a 6.45 print early European trading but has been struggling […]
3 Strong Buy Semiconductor Stocks To Consider Now – August 2018
Semiconductor stocks were battered by market volatility earlier this year, but tech has made a strong recovery, and with several interesting trends like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence on the rise, it is still an exciting time to be investing in chip-making corner of the technology sector. While tech behemoths like Microsoft (MSFT – Free […]
Unwelcome August
There is just something about August. It is irresistible, apparently, in all the wrong ways. For starters, there are big ones and small ones but somehow they all line up against liquidity and plentiful eurodollar money. In the former class, there was, of course, August 9, 2007, August 9, 2011, and August 10, 2015. Even […]
World Markets Update – Monday, August 13
Three of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, August 13, 2018. The top performer this year is India’s BSE Sensex with a gain of 11.33%. In second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 5.55%. In third is France’s CAC 40 with a gain of 1.88%. Coming […]
Late August Cooler Trends Hit Natural Gas
The September natural gas contract settled down around a cent and a half on the day after prices sold off more heavily early this morning and bounced through the trading session to minimize losses. Later contracts were certainly more firm on the day too compared to the September contract, which was the weakest. Expectations that […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Rulers Of The Darkness Of This World – Riders On The Storm
What is going on with Turkey? Personally, I think that Erdogan is being ‘put in his place’. But that’s just my opinion and I could be wrong. I was out most of the day taking the Ohio contingent of visitors around seeing the sights. Gold and silver were spanked today, out of proportion to the […]
3 Reasons Stocks Are Straining To Get Over The Hump
The S&P 500 – a broad market barometer for U.S. stocks – last hit a record high six-and-a-half months ago. Why has the stock market failed to close above its previous peak set back on January 29? The short answer is that not everyone is buying the media-hyped “Goldilocks” scenario. Granted, the country is enjoying […]
Record Low Returns In Turkey
If you’re like us, the constant talk about Turkey is getting about as tedious as the days after Thanksgiving when you are about to have your third or fourth sandwich of the weekend and you’re still up to your eyeballs in leftovers. At the risk of beating a dead horse, though, we found it noteworthy that […]
AUD/USD Forecast: Bearish Behavior To Persist As Summer Range Snaps
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR TALKING POINTS AUD/USD slips to a fresh yearly-low even as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) starts to change its tune, and the exchange rate now stands at risk of exhibiting a more bearish behavior over the days ahead as it snaps the range-bound price action from the start of the summer months. AUD/USD […]
