Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
The Reluctant Labor Force Is Reluctant For A Reason (And It’s Not Booming Growth)
In 2017, the BLS estimates that just 861k Americans were added to the official labor force, the denominator, of course, for the unemployment rate. That’s out of an increase of 1.4 million in the Civilian Non-Institutional Population, the overall prospective pool of workers. Both of those rises were about half the rate experienced in 2016. […]
Huge Start To 2018 – But Can It Last?
I’ve really been impressed by the start that we have seen here in 2018. Really an amazing start, and the best opening week that I can remember having to a new year, in a very, very long time. In fact it is the best opening week for the stock market since 2006. Following December where the […]
Rates May Not Need To Move Higher
Wow. Could this be true? The DJW is up 10% since the break out in September-2017. Should we start taking profits, or should we instead throw more money into stocks? I have no idea. I haven’t read the news today, but I did see the headline that job growth came in a bit weak. I […]
Skyline Medical Announces Pricing Of Firm Commitment Public Offering Of Common Stock And Warrants
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Skyline Medical Inc. (Nasdaq:SKLN) (“Skyline” or “the Company”), producer of the FDA-approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain medical fluid disposal, today announced the pricing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering of 2,900,000 Units at an offering price of $0.95 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of one share of […]
Market Talk – Friday, January 5
It has been a pretty impressive start to the New Year as we close firmer on all core markets and across all core regions. Asia followed US sentiment and added another 1% for the Nikkei, 0.75% for Australia and +0.25% for both Shanghai and Hang Seng. The KOPSI added 1.3% after news that North and […]
December 2017 FOMC Minutes
On Wednesday, the Fed released the minutes of the FOMC’s December meeting.As usual, the minutes followed the standard format, mirroring the way presentations and discussions proceed at FOMC meetings.It began with a brief summary report by the manager of the Open Market Desk in New York.There were only two notable pieces of information in that […]
You Must Be Long These Metals In 2018
In 2017, the S&P 500 had a “perfect year,” in which it rose nearly 20%. It was the first year since 1990 that the S&P 500 rose 12 months in a row. However, three unloved and overlooked metals beat that performance soundly. Lead, zinc and copper all had outstanding years in 2017. They returned 26%, 30% and 30%, respectively. However, most […]
The Natural Gas Spreads To Watch As Warmth Arrives
The natural gas market sold off again today as it continued to price in warmer weather expectations for the second half of January. This is something we first warned of in our Note of the Day last Friday, where we picked up on long-range warm trends that could potentially pull the market back. Prices did […]
What’s Up For 2018? Inflation And Interest Rates
Here we are in the first week of 2018! As I mentioned in my last Economy & Markets article, I usually focus on short-term overreactions in the Treasury bond market and not long-term forecasting. But since Harry and the rest of the Dent Research team have their opinions on where the markets are set to go this year, I’ll […]
