Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
4 Sector ETFs At A Bargain
A string of woes hurt the U.S. market momentum in the first quarter of 2016 with the S&P 500 barely adding gains thanks to global growth issues and persistent worries in the oil patch. Many, including the Republican favorite for president, Donald Trump, believe that the U.S. economy may bump into a recession due to […]
Healthcare Almost To Target
Here’s the XLV weekly chart again. It’s closer still to the top channel line. The daily view is kissing the SMA 200. I sold XLV but still hold my fair haired boy, device maker Boston Scientific. This is not to say XLV has to stop here, but the target was 70 and that’s […]
E Seeing Red Flags Everywhere
During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Central Command asked me to fly a top secret mission to Lebanon in my twin engine Cessna 340. Mission accomplished, I flew home on a 270-degree heading over the Eastern Mediterranean at an altitude of 200 feet, in order to stay under the radar. It was a warm, hazy […]
TSRO Gains On Agreement With Janssen JNJ
Tesaro (TSRO) shares have risen sharply in early trading today after the company signed a license and collaboration deal with Janssen Biotech (JNJ). Through the agreement, Janssen has secured worldwide rights, excluding Japan, to develop and commercialize poly polymerase (PARP) inhibitor niraparib for the treatment of prostate cancer. According to the terms of the agreement, […]
Global Upstream Oil & Gas M&A Reaches Just $18.5 Billion In Q1 2016
Analysis in Evaluate Energy’s new M&A report shows that Q1 2016 saw the lowest number of newly announced M&A deals in the global upstream oil and gas sector – 157, excluding licensing rounds – take place than at any time during the price downturn. The previous lowest number of deals was recorded a year earlier in Q1 […]
Verizon To Acquire 24.5% Stake In AwesomenessTV
Verizon (VZ) announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase an approximate 24.5% stake in AwesomenessTV. Upon completion of this transaction, the AwesomenessTV multi-platform media company will be valued at approximately $650M. DreamWorks Animation (DWA), which acquired AwesomenessTV in 2013, will remain the company’s majority stakeholder with an approximate 51% ownership of outstanding shares, while […]
Breadth Rolling Over
Yesterday did a lot of damage to the number of bullish stocks on the Twitter stream. It is causing breadth to roll over. This isn’t the action the bulls want to see. Keep an eye on this chart going forward. If the bullish count continues to fall quickly and the bearish count starts to rise, […]
USD/JPY: As Confusing As FX Market Ever Gets: 2 Takes On Positioning – SocGen
USD/JPY is free falling after already reaching the October 2014 lows. The pair has reached a low of 109.58 below the “line in the sand“. What’s next? The team at SocGen tries to explain: Here is their view, courtesy of eFXnews: On the first of February, just before the BOJ’s bungled attempt to ease monetary policy, the Bloomberg consensus […]
Treasury Bust Ahead?
The US Treasury (UST) Bubble is the mutha lard of the whole corrupted sistema. It is a coin clipping operation with output deflected or looted to the Crime Syndicate. Obviously the day has already past when incomes will suffice to pay both for essentials and interest payments. Then the whole Ponzi system will collapse by having become […]
Investing In The Canadian Stock Market With Success
Who would have thought a beaver could run faster than an eagle? You might want to say that it’s only one quarter and that the Canadian stock market has been beaten up nicely by the US stock market for the past… well I don’t remember since when, but let’s just say that you should never […]
