Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Ebay’s (EBAY) Marketplace Is Expected To Do Well In 2018
eBay Inc. (EBAY – Free Report) is a well-established player in the e-commerce space and also has a first-mover advantage. To maintain its dominance, eBay has introduced several measures to fuel growth in its Marketplaces business. eBay has been giving more data to its marketplace sellers. These data include price guidance, restocking guidance and more insight into inventory […]
Whether Volatility Is High Or Low, Gamma Trading Can Exploit Opportunity
Written by Alternatives Team at Calamos Investments In 2018, volatility kicked into high gear. So far, there have been 11 days when the S&P 500 has moved at least 1%. Investors may not like the return of volatility, but it can strengthen the tailwinds for the gamma trading we do in our market neutral income […]
E U.S. House Prices Continue To Rise Three Times Faster Than Inflation
According to the S&P Case-Shiller survey of housing prices, year-over-year increases in national prices (as of January 30, 2018) has been 5% or more over the past 16 months. The 20-City house price index has climbed at this same fast pace over the last 28 months. Why is housing inflation so much faster than general […]
AUDUSD Daily Analysis – Tuesday, March 6
AUDUSD is now facing the resistance of the bearish trend line on its 4-hour chart. As long as the price is below the trend line, the bounce from 0.7712 could be treated as consolidation for the downtrend from 0.7988, and another fall towards 0.7600 could be expected after the consolidation. On the upside, a clear […]
Sensex Ends Day In The Red; Emergency Declared In Sri Lanka
After opening the day in green, share markets in India traded flat throughout the day and ended the day on a negative note. Losses were seen across most sectors with stocks in the realty sector and stocks in the banking sector, leading the losses. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood lower by 430 points (down 1.3%) and the NSE Nifty closed down by […]
Transunion Announces Pricing Of Secondary Offering Of 19,889,564 Shares Of Common Stock
CHICAGO, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TransUnion (the “Company”) (NYSE:TRU) announced the pricing of the underwritten secondary offering by certain of its stockholders (the “Selling Stockholders”) of 19,889,564 shares of common stock of the Company (the “common stock”) pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”).The […]
Want To Know Where Gold Prices Are Headed? Watch The U.S. Dollar
U.S. Dollar Could Dictate Gold Prices Ahead If you are looking for direction on gold prices, it’s important you look at the U.S. dollar. If the dollar declines continue, gold prices could rally significantly. iStock.com/mathieukor Gold bugs, be happy; the U.S. dollar is declining. Mind you, don’t pay attention to the daily fluctuations. A lot […]
BTC/USD And BTC/JPY Forecast – Tuesday, March 6
BTC/USD Bitcoin markets did very little during the trading on Monday, as we continue to hover just below the $12,000 level. It’s not until we break above that area that I think that the market will probably be able to go higher. We would also need to see strong volume, something that has been missing. […]
Resiliency Demonstrated
The resiliency of the status quo is again on display. After much chin wagging and finger pointing after the Italian elections and the modest decline in Italian assets, they have bounced back today. Italian bonds and stocks are participating in today’s advance. Italian equities were off 0.5% yesterday and are up a 1.1% near midday […]
Goldman Rips Trump’s Tariffs With Point-By-Point Takedown
And the hits just keep comin’. On Monday, markets managed to shake off the trade war threat and incessant balderdash from Donald Trump, who continued to broadside U.S. trade partners, accusing Canada of mistreating American farmers, Mexico of not doing enough to stop the flow of drugs into the country, and Europe for “sending cars in here […]
