Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Gold Trades In Narrow Range As Investors Awaits Fed’s Guidance
Gold prices fell for a third straight session on Tuesday and settled at $1232.36 an ounce as investors continued to trim bullish bets ahead of the Fed’s announcement. The XAU/USD pair tried to pass the 1238/5 resistance but the bulls run out of steam and as a result the precious metal bounced roughly between the […]
Data Dump, Fed Meeting Adds To Noise
The US markets are in for a busy day today with consumer inflation, housing starts and building permits data coming out ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy statement and press conference. Combined, the data is likely to add significant noise to the US Dollar. The Federal Reserve is expected to announce its monetary policy […]
5 Bank Stocks To Watch Ahead Of Fed Meeting
“Fed rate hike” – three magical words that have kept investors optimistic about the U.S. economy amid global headwinds such as growth issues in China, crashing commodity prices and volatile oil prices. While most of the economies have been loosening their monetary policies with Europe and Japan heading towards negative interest rates, the Federal Reserve’s […]
Gold Price Flat Before Fed, Oil Price Rises On Lower Stockpile
Oil rose after inventory data from the American Petroleum Institute showed on Tuesday that crude stockpile rose by 1.5 million barrels last week, about half of what was expected. Official production and inventory figures will be released by the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration on Wednesday. This inventory data is expected to show a fifth straight week […]
Investors Pull Most Money From Oil Funds In Over 2 Years As Bears Return
Amid the last two weeks of exuberant short squeeze in crude oil (and anything energy related), investors pulled over $400 million from USO (the largest oil ETF). This week’s $348 million outflow is just shy of the record $354 million outflow in Dec 2013. As these outflows hit so bullish positions in oil ETFs have been […]
Daily Market Analysis – 3/16/2016
Video length: 00:02:01 During the course of the day on Wednesday, we have a huge amount of announcements from various countries around the world, and that of course will move the markets all over the place. With this, we pay special attention to the FOMC Meeting Minutes, as people are starting to question whether or […]
This Stock Yielding 60% Could Hand Investors Huge Returns
Although it yields 60%, it is not at risk of going bankrupt and even has the potential to hand investors a whopping 100% or more total return in 2016. Those are numbers that are hard to ignore, and investors would be wise to look into this investment opportunity. The energy sector crash has resulted in some interesting/intriguing/perplexing/scary […]
E There’s A ‘Changing Of The Guard’
There’s a ‘changing of the guard’ underway this year; and it’s characteristics are not yet accepted by some of the ‘old Guard’, well beyond our own borders. It is seen in Canada, where the shift has already occurred; pending Europe where leaders are stunned that the post-War multicultural harmony didn’t homogenize to the degree political […]
5 Mid Caps For Momentum Investors
One of the best ways Momentum investors can find stocks before others do is to screen for short term momentum signals. Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index stock first for the most number of new highs in the last month, then again for a Trend Spotter buy signal. Next I used […]
John Hussman’s Healthy Fourth Quarter Investments: General Electric Company And PepsiCo, Inc.
With consumer emphasis shifting to health consciousness, many companies are increasing their focus on health-related segments and products. Investors such as John Hussman have also been cashing in on this trend. John Hussman, hedge fund manager of Hussman Strategic Advisors Inc, has recently made some changes to his holdings. According to TipRanks, his current portfolio value is […]
