Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Clothed In The Sun
Gold and silver caught a big today, even as stocks continued their slanted push up against trend resistance. I have some optimism for the price of gold here, as it seems to draw the usual rally off the Non-Farm Payrolls bottom, all other things being even. There is intermediate trend resistance at 1340 that may […]
18 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive And Ford Motor
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following four Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Apache and Hormel Foods. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by […]
Record High Stocks, Record Low VIX But Bitcoin, Bonds, & Bullion Bid
Buy it all… On the week – Stocks are up, Treasury Bonds are up, Corporate Bonds are up, Gold is up, Bitcoin is up, and WTI Crude is up… Video length: 00:04:05 Before we get started – consider the following… And perhaps this will help explain last week’s action compared to this week’s? Everything reversed trend […]
Retail Sales Improves In September 2017
Retail sales were up according to US Census headline data – but slightly below expectations. The unadjusted rolling average improved. . Analyst Opinion of Retail Sales Things to consider when viewing this data: it is not inflation adjusted – and inflation in this sector is now running near 1.5 %. the three month rolling […]
EUR/GBP – Still Headed For 88 Cents
With the wild swings in EUR/USD came big moves for EUR/GBP on Friday but when the dust settled, sterling outperformed the euro and we think this move will last. The European Central Bank’s monetary policy announcement is less than 2 weeks away. Between now and then, the only thing that investors will be thinking about […]
USD/CAD Forecast Oct. 16-20, 2017
Dollar/CAD slipped from the highs in a much-needed correction. The upcoming week’s highlights are the inflation and retail sales reports. What’s next? Here are the highlights and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. Canadian housing figures were mixed: housing starts beat expectations with 217K while building permits plunged by 5.5%. In the US, the Fed’s worries […]
Realty Income: The Gold Standard In Safe And Steadily Growing Monthly Dividends
Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, can serve as a convenient way for regular investors to profit from rental real estate while also generating income for those seeking to live off dividends in retirement. Realty Income (O) has become famous for its generous, secure, and steadily growing dividends (23 straight years of increases and counting), which […]
Chart: The Global Leaders In R&D Spending
THE COUNTRIES AND FIRMS THAT PUT THE MOST INTO R&D The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Given a choice of being the disruptor or the disrupted, many would prefer to choose the former. But it’s not as easy as just flipping a switch and subsequently reaping the benefits of a […]
Apple Dips After Qualcomm Asks China To Halt Iphone Sales
Shares of Apple (AAPL) moved lower after Qualcomm (QCOM), according to Bloomberg, filed lawsuits in China seeking to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones in the country. Qualcomm filed suits in a Beijing intellectual property court claiming patent infringement and seeking injunctive relief, a spokeswoman for the chipmaker told Bloomberg. “Apple employs technologies invented […]
What Inflation Means To You: Inside The Consumer Price Index – Friday, October 13
Note: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include today’s Consumer Price Index news release. Back in 2010, the Fed justified its aggressive monetary policy “to promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with its mandate” (full text). In effect, the Fed has been […]
