Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
EUR/USD Snaps Narrow Range On Powell Testimony; Euro-Zone CPI On Tap
EUR/USD slips to fresh weekly lows following the semi-annual testimony with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, and fresh developments coming out of the euro-area may spark a further decline in the exchange rate as the core rate of inflation is expected to slow to an annualized 1.2% from 1.3% in January. It seems as though the Federal Open […]
Down 40% In Three Months, Tile Shop Insiders Scooping Up Shares
New form 4 filings with the SEC have revealed that Tile Shop Holdings Inc (Nasdaq: TTS ) insiders have been selling large quantities of stock since last Thursday. With shares down -42.8% in the last 30 days, it’s worth taking a closer look at the company. Insider Buying: Tile Shop A number of insiders have […]
Home Prices Continue Rise In December
With today’s release of the December S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were up 0.60% month over month. The seasonally adjusted national index year-over-year change has hovered between 4.2% and 6.2% for the last two plus years. Today’s S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index (nominal) reached […]
Silver Prices Should Be Higher Because Inflation Concerns Are Overblown
iStock.com/Nishasharp Silver Prices Are Falling Because of Erroneous Inflation Concerns Everything in the markets points to higher prices for precious metals. Yet, they’re failing to respond as expected. The situation is not desperate. In fact, gold and silver prices have gone up in the past three months. It’s just that at a time when stock […]
EC Did Low-Volatility Strategies Fail Investors?
February’s market break caught many investors by surprise. Many who thought they had girded their portfolios against volatility were shocked by the size of their losses. “Where’s my protection?” was an oft-heard complaint. Most of the grumbling seemed to arise from confusion about so-called “low-volatility” products. The Low-Vol Anomaly First of all, low-volatility, or “low-vol,” […]
What Other Industries Can Benefit From Tableau’s Platform?
According to a recent market report, the global data visualization market was valued at $4.51 billion in 2017. It is expected to grow 9.5% annually to $7.76 billion by 2023. Data analytics firm Tableau (NYSE: DATA) is a leading player in the industry. Tableau’s Financials Tableau’s fourth-quarter revenues fell 1% over the year to $249.4 million, […]
E Crude Oil Unfolding A Temporary Correction
By the look of things on hourly chart of crude oil, we can see that a leading diagonal was made in wave 1 of a higher degree. As such, a new three-wave deeper correction can unfold within wave 2, with first support coming in around the 63.05 swing low, and the second coming in near […]
FHFA House Price Index: Index Up 1.6% In Q4 2017
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released its U.S. House Price Index (HPI) for December. Here is the opening of the report: U.S. house prices rose 1.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). House prices rose 6.7 percent from the fourth […]
E Macy’s Is Turning The Corner
Macy’s (M) is a company that we have been following for several years. We have watched as this one great retail darling has fallen from grace, as sales and earnings have fallen dramatically in the last five years. With the ever-changing consumer, Macy’s was slow to adapt, and its share price suffered in the last […]
Gold: The Intense Battle For $1370
For the past fifteen months or so, gold has repeatedly been turned back by immense technical resistance in the $1370 area. Double-click to enlarge this daily gold chart. There have been three clear attempts to push through the $1370 area since November of 2016. The first two failed miserably, but the current move looks much more […]
