Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Euro Gets A Bounce With ECB Help
The common currency edged up to a 1-week high versus the US Dollar today after hawkish commentary overnight from one European Central Bank policymaker helped to solidify bets that the economic outlook for the Eurozone remains robust. Sabine Lautenschlaeger of the ECB’s executive board commented that asset purchases should be rolled back next year. The […]
How We Came To Develop An Ex-State-Owned Emerging Markets Index
On last week’s podcast, we spoke to Tim Reynolds, emerging markets portfolio manager at Employee Retirement System (ERS) of Texas. Reynolds has worked in investment management for 25 years. His start was in real estate investing, managing REIT portfolios, before he gravitated to domestic growth investing, where he would look for management tone changes in evaluating opportunities. […]
November BOE Rate Hike Expectations Rise Following ONS Inflation Error
Unit Labour Cost Revised Higher The chances of a UK interest rate rise are thought to have increased in light of the admission of an error by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS erroneously reported last week that the unit labour cost, which is the cost of employment per worker, grew at […]
3 Strong Buy Dreyfus Mutual Funds For Increased Returns
With nearly $252 billion of assets under management as of Dec 31, 2016, Dreyfus Corporation is considered one of the leaders in the investment management and distribution domain in the United States. Founded in 1951, the company invests its assets in mutual funds from different categories, including both equity and fixed-income mutual funds. Separately, its […]
Homebuyers’ Mortgage Payments Rising Faster Than Prices
from CoreLogic — this post authored by Andrew LePage Low mortgage interest rates helped soften the blow of rising prices for homebuyers over the past six years. But with prices still rising and mortgage rates running about half a percentage point higher than last summer the mortgage payments that many homebuyers face have increased at roughly […]
Technically Speaking: Extremes Everywhere (COT Update)
This past weekend, I discussed what appears to be the markets ongoing melt-up toward its inevitable conclusion. Of course, that move is supported by the last of the “holdouts” that finally capitulate and take the plunge back into a market that “can seemingly never go down.” But therein lies the danger. To wit: “However, it should be noted that despite […]
Replicating Indexes In R With Style Analysis: Part I
In the quest for clarity in portfolio analytics, Professor Bill Sharpe’s introduction of returns-based style analysis was a revelation. By applying statistical techniques to reverse engineer investment strategies using historical performance data, style analysis offers a powerful, practical tool for understanding the source of risk and return in portfolios. The same analytical framework can be used to […]
AUD/USD Daily Analysis – Tues, October 10
AUD/USD stays below a bearish trend line on the 4-hour chart and remains in the downtrend from 0.8102. As long as the price is below the trend line, the bounce from 0.7732 could be treated as consolidation of the downtrend. Further decline could be expected after the consolidation and the next target would be at […]
European Stocks On Edge Ahead Of Catalan Independence Call, S&P Futures Rise
S&P futures are again modestly in the green as European shares hold steady ahead of a meeting of the Catalan regional parliament and a possible declaration of independence by Catalan leader Puigdemont, while Asian shares rise a the second day. The dollar declined for the 3rd day, its losses accelerating across the board amid growing […]
E EUR/USD Making A Recovery
Price formed a triangle correction of a lower degree within wave iv), that caused a drop down into a fifth wave last week, to 1.1660 level that we highlighted it as a potential support. The market turned up slightly on Friday from that zone which may lead to more euro recovery, but for an important […]
