Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Why The T.I.N.A. Market Creates Overvalued Dividend Stalwarts
This piece will be focused on the T.I.N.A. market that we’ve all been investing in throughout the last handful of years. I’ll be taking a look at the risks and repercussions of such an environment, and how I’ve been dealing with it personally. Many of you may not be familiar with the T.I.N.A. acronym. I’m […]
Cryptocurrencies crash in a rollercoaster week for blockchain shares
Beginning on January 16, cryptocurrency crashes witnessed collective losses of $300bn in just 36 hours. The value of bitcoin crashed dramatically on January 17, falling below $10,000 for the first time in six weeks. Ever prone to sharp fluctuations, the cryptocurrency’s price rallied later in the evening in an unexpected turnaround. The early indications of cryptocurrencies […]
“Beige Book” Drivel: Fed Reports Modest To Moderate Expansion
The Fed’s “Beige Book” is a compilation of economic activity by each of twelve Federal Reserve districts. CNBC reports Fed’s Beige Book: US economy, inflation growing at modest-to-moderate pace. Bloomberg reports Fed Says Almost All Districts Saw Modest to Moderate Growth. MarketWatch reports Fed’s Beige Book finds muted reaction to Republican tax plan. Only MarketWatch bothered to link […]
Government Shutdown Causes VIX Spike As Traders Take Profits In Stocks
Wild Tuesday In Stocks & Crypto Cryptocurrencies had a disastrous crash on Tuesday as most were down over 20% and some were down over 40%. The total market capitalization peaked at $830 billion two weeks ago. The latest check is $496 billion which is an over 40% decline. This is great news for the economy […]
Tesla’s Journey: From IPO To Passing Ford In Value, In Just 7 Years
In Tesla’s final years as a private company, things got pretty hectic. As we showed in Part 1: Tesla’s Origin Story, the launch of the Roadster was a public relations success, but it created all kinds of problems internally. There were massive cost overruns, a revolving door of CEOs, layoffs, and even a narrow escape from […]
Good News: Customer Service Fixed The Stock Market
Yes, customer service? I’d like to report an outage in the magic money machine. Whatever went “wrong” on Tuesday went “right” on Wednesday as stocks surged and the Dow broke above 26,000 again. Apparently, someone called customer support yesterday when the rally faded. The S&P couldn’t quite get there on a 1% gain and […]
ASML Results Pull Semiconductor Equipment Maker Shares Higher
Shares of semiconductor equipment companies are strong this morning after peer ASML (ASML) reported fourth quarter earnings and revenue that were ahead of expectations, as customers looked for early delivery of equipment to meet high demand expectations. Q4 RESULTS: The Dutch-based semiconductor equipment maker reported Q4 revenue of EUR 2.56B versus a consensus estimate of […]
Updated Targets For Crude, USD, And Gold
(Audio length 00:12:43) Rick Ackerman is with me today to share his thoughts on the oil, USD, and gold charts. Even though he is an admitted crude bear and dollar bull the targets he has are the opposite of those outlooks. As for gold, Rick is seeing some higher targets but nothing major for the […]
Chinese Treasury Holdings Slide To Lowest Since July
In the aftermath of Bloomberg’s report from last week that China may slow down or reverse its Treasury purchases should the US trigger trade war with Beijing, pundits were closely watching today’s TIC report from the Treasury to see what China did November. And according to the just-released Treasury International Capital data for the month […]
The S&P 500 Taps This Team To Win The Super Bowl
Super Bowl Sunday is just weeks away. Right after the big game, you’ll read about the Super Bowl indicator. This indicator predicts the stock market’s trend for the rest of 2018. The Super Bowl seems irrelevant to the stock market. But before you decide to ignore this indicator, you need to know there’s a reason […]
