Want Your Investments To Do Better? What’s A Smart Investor To Do?
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
Written by Matt Bell If you pay close attention to investment news, it’ll either make you laugh or it’ll drive you bonkers. Within the same hour, and on the same market news website, you will often see completely contradictory articles. One says the market is headed higher; the next says the market is about to tank. What’s […]
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FCAU Continues To Remain An Undervalued Asset
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (NYSE: FCAU) has recently seen a run-up for the past year. It has come from a merger with General Motors Inc. (NYSE: GM) and PSA Group (PEUP: PSA), with analysts pointing to a potential merger between FCAU and GM. Notably, FCAU has not seen much action since inception regarding price action and has recently […]
Chart Of The Day: Rise Of The “Dumb” Money
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
So as with all passive ETF posts, we have to put the word “dumb” in scare quotes. Why? Well, because it’s not entirely clear whether these flows are actually so “dumb” after all. Indeed, in a market that only goes up, this “dumb” money is the “smartest” money there is. In fact, as we wrote in […]
EUR/USD – A Bull’s Game: Strengthening Of The Euro Expected By Way Of Correction
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
Trading opportunities for the currency pair: Movement on the EUR/USD pair continues to correlate with that of 2005. According to historical patterns, a large downwards correction is due to take place after the 15th of April. Despite this, the rate may still deviate significantly upwards. After Friday’s payrolls, the price came out of the 1.0494 – 1.0626 […]
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Best And Worst ADRs – Monday, March 13
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
The best sector in ADRs is financials. The top countries are Hong Kong & Canada. The average score across our ADR universe is 53.59. For perspective, the score has averaged 53.36 and 53.59 over the past four and eight weeks, respectively. The average ADR in our universe rallied 0.77% last week and is trading -14.86% […]
Sell Or Short Shares Ahead Of E.L.F. Beauty’s Lock-Up Expiration
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE: ELF) – Strong Sell or Short Recommendation The 180-day lockup period for the e.l.f. Beauty Inc. IPO is scheduled to expire on March 27, 2017. The lock-up period was originally set to expire on 3.21, but was extended due to earnings release. At this point, the company’s pre-IPO insiders will be able to […]
Ethereum Explodes Above $30, Soars 35% In Past 24 Hours
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
While much of the media and public attention has been understandably focused on Bitcoin in recent months, a far more dramatic move has taken place in Bitcoin’s less popular peer, Ethereum. To be sure, one month ago, when we noticed the first tangible move higher in ETH since last summer’s dramatic plunge following a highly […]
The Problem With India’s Entrepreneurs
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
India is a much more entrepreneurial society than the United States. That may seem surprising since India is poor and we typically associate entrepreneurship with being rich, but it’s clearly true. Everyone here is on the make and open to opportunity. You need to hire someone to fix your wifi or repair a bicycle or […]
Meaningless Monday Market Movement – Waiting On The Fed
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
Fed meeting on Wednesday. Trump didn’t do anything too crazy over the weekend (but Turkey did), so we haven’t got much to do while we wait for the Fed to officially raise rates 0.25%. Oil’s fall is calling a big stir in the news but it’s hardly news to us as we were shorting it all the […]
The Global Debt Is Ready To Explode?
Mar 13, 2017
Jeremy Parkinson
Finance
According to the International Monetary Fund, global debt has grown to a staggering grand total of 152 trillion dollars. Other estimates put that figure closer to 200 trillion dollars, but for the purposes of this article let’s use the more conservative number. If you take 152 trillion dollars and divide it by the seven billion people living […]