Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
5 Best Global Equity Mutual Funds To Buy In 2018
According to Lipper’s latest fund flow report, stock funds investing globally registered strong inflows in 2017. In contrast, domestic equity funds registered outflows during the same period. Investors increasingly shifted their focus from domestic equity funds to global equity funds in 2017 and will keep a close watch on international funds this year. Moreover, recently […]
Jamie Dimon Predicts 4% GDP Growth, Retracts Bitcoin Fraud Charge
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is in the news twice this morning, once regarding GDP and once for a Bitcoin retraction. Jamie Dimon claims JP Morgan’s chief economist is wrong about the economy: Dimon Predicts 4% Growth. Dimon said he expects the “competitive tax rate” to encourage deal-making on Wall Street, pointing to Europe which he said […]
The Bear’s Lair: Crashes And Depressions In 2018
2018 looks to be a jolly year; it has the potential for no less than four kinds of financial disaster: a major “fringe market” crash in crypto-currencies with credit implications, a stock market crash of the old-fashioned kind, a massive bond market crash as yields return to reality and a recession, which Trump-haters no doubt […]
5 ETF Ways To Tap Hot Semiconductor Stocks
The semiconductor corner of the broad technology market continued its winning streak with the start of the New Year. This is especially true as the S&P Semiconductor Select Industry Index climbed 6.8% in the first few days of 2018 trading compared with gains of 4.6% for the S&P 500 Information Technology S&P 500 index and […]
Technical Scoop Of The Markets
Welcome to 2018. So far it looks the same as 2017. The President of the United States ended the old year and began the one with a barrage of tweets, including one threatening nuclear annihilation with the “Little Rocket Man” of North Korea. The world can only hope they keep it to each other and […]
Coca-Cola (KO): Are The Best Days Behind This Buffett-Owned Dividend King?
When it comes to high-quality dividend growth stocks, investors naturally gravitate to blue chips like dividend aristocrats and dividend kings. After all, no company can increase its dividend for at least 25 or 50 years in a row without a certain combination of highly admirable characteristics. These traits tend to include stable and predictable cash flows, strong […]
Euro-Area Jobless Rate Improves To 9-Year Low In November
Broad economic growth and continuous job creation in the Euro-area further improved the unemployment rate to the lowest level since early 2009. The region unemployment rate declined from 8.8 percent in October to 8.7 percent in November, the Eurostat report showed on Tuesday. The lowest unemployment rate in 9 years. Despite better than expected economic […]
GBPUSD – Double Top Or Fresh Highs?
Cable has stalled ahead of the 1.3600 figure since the start of the year failing to make fresh multi-month highs. The pair looks to be carving out a double top near the key 1.3500 figure, but the battle between bulls and bears is not over. A small retrace down to the 1.3300 level will […]
Chart Of The Day: Making (World) History
I love the smell of risk euphoria in the morning. Monday’s theme was “equi-phoria”, a state of acute psychosis that pervades the warped minds of E*Traders, pundits, and punters alike at the tail end of a rally that’s left multiples stretched to historic extremes and now finds stocks, bonds, and credit the most simultaneously overvalued in […]
