Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Stock Exchange: Can Model-Based Trading Beat The Market?
Review Considering the many thousands of publicly traded securities, most traders have a preferred process to sift through the universe. If you missed it, a glance at your news will show that the key points remain relevant. This Week: Can Model-Based Trading Beat The Market? The advantages of model-based trading seem clear. For example, models […]
Nikkei’s Secular Bear Continues: 28 Years And Counting
Excited headlines this week point out that after rising some 26% in the past 12 months, Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index hit a 21 year high, rebounding to just under 21,000. The below chart of the Nikkei since 1990 shows the reality of the Japanese stock market, still some 46% below its last ‘everything bubble peak’ at […]
How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
Written by Steve Roth Imagen you’re Jeff Bezos, circa 1998. You’re building a company (Amazon, AMZN) that stands to make you and your compatriots vastly rich. But looking forward, you see a problem: if your company makes profits, it will have to pay taxes on them. (At least nominally, in theory, 35%!) Then you and your […]
European Bonds – Warning Knell Or Cause For Celebration?
Writing, as government bond yields for peripheral European markets peaked in Macro Letter – No 73 – 24-03-2017 – Can a multi-speed European Union evolve? I felt that another Eurozone crisis could not be ruled out:- The ECB would almost certainly like to taper its quantitative easing, especially in light of the current tightening by […]
Weekly Commodities Wrap: Precious Metals Rise On Weaker USD & Geopolitical Concerns
Gold: Fed’s Inflation Concern Fuels Gold Rally Following a decline which lasted four consecutive weeks, the price of Gold rebounded this week to recoup some of its losses, helped mostly by a weaker US Dollar. The release of the FOMC minutes sparked some covering of recent longs in the Dollar as they showed that many […]
Sterling Extends Yesterday’s Recovery; US Data Awaited
The EU’s leading negotiator whipsawed sterling yesterday. The net effect was to ease fears that the UK would leave the EU without the agreement Initial concerns that the negotiations had stalled sent sterling to nearly $1.3120 The willingness to discuss a two-year transition period spurred sterling’s recovery. After trading on both sides of Wednesdays, it […]
Sensex, Nifty Continue To Trade In Green; Bank Stocks Rally
Indian share markets, bonds and the rupee continued to trade positively after data showed inflation held steady, instead of accelerating as expected. Gains were largely seen in bank stocks, metal stocks and realty stocks. The BSE Sensex is trading higher by 264 points and the NSE Nifty is trading higher by 75 points. Meanwhile, the BSE Mid Cap index is trading up by 0.2% & […]
S&P 500 And Nasdaq 100 Forecast – Friday, Oct. 13
S&P 500 The S&P 500 fell slightly during the session on Thursday but found support just below the 2550 handle. The markets have been a bit sideways, and quite frankly I wouldn’t mind seeing the pullbacks of that I can pick up value. However, it doesn’t look like were ready to do so yet, and […]
Bitcoin On The Move; Rises To $5,856
Dominant cryptocurrency Bitcoin rose by more than 13 percent on Friday to an all-time high of $5,856. The cryptocurrency that traded at $966 at the beginning of the year, has now gained more than 750 percent in the last one year and worth four times as much as an ounce of gold. However, the […]
How Will McDonald’s Fare In India’s Burger Battle?
Written by [email protected] Burgered,” headlined The Economic Times, India’s leading economic daily. The publication elaborated: “From worms to lizards to fungus to finger nails, all kinds of ‘foreign’ objects have been reportedly served to consumers along with burger and fries.” It’s happened before: in Japan, where McDonald’s had to apologize for a tooth being found in French fries, […]
