Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
A Conversation
Imagine a financial adviser* approached you with an investment opportunity** without telling you specifically what it was. And right up front he tells you it’s likely to generate a zero to negative return over the coming decade. What would you say? I imagine any investor with any common sense would respond by saying something like, […]
Germany Surprises, Helps Euro Tick Up
The US dollar has begun the holiday-shortened week on a firm note, but the stronger than expected German IFO report helped steady the euro near $1.2400. Although Japanese markets were closed earlier today, the dollar rebounded toward JPY118.40, as participants recognize official jawboning was more about the pace of the yen’s decline than the level. The […]
The Week Ahead: Forecast For Upcoming Economic Reports
This week markets will focus on the revised GDP report, which the consensus shows falling a bit from last month’s flash estimate of 3.5 percent. Potentially upsetting markets, the consensus expects durable goods orders fell 0.5 percent in October; however, that would be mostly adjustments in the volatile transportation sector—dominated by the lumpiness in aircraft […]
China SGE Gold Withdrawals For Week 52 Tonnes
The Shanghai Gold Exchange withdrawals were 52.26 tonnes for the week ending 14 November. To put this into perspective, there are a total of 27 tonnes of gold bullion in the registered ‘deliverable’ at these prices category in all the Comex warehouses now. That’s only a few days supply work in Shanghai. The point of this, […]
Stocks: What Do The Charts Say Now?
Things have happened fast over the past four weeks. Video takes a step back and looks at the new evidence that has surfaced in the stock market since the October 15 low. Video Length: 00:16:35
Maybe US Isn’t Turning Japanese…
First, a bit of the money theory. It usually called one of theories, but to me, it’s the only one that’s working. In short, all money is debt. And it’s not the debt that banks take from Fed or Central Bank, it’s debt which is taken by people and businesses. Because only this debt is […]
E Weekly Report: Best & Worst Sectors And Stocks – November 24, 2014
Top scoring weekly returns: Buy and Hold 1 Year Click on picture to enlarge The best scoring sector across our universe of 1,600 stocks is utilities. Consumer goods, industrial goods, and services also score above average. In the services sector, focus more on large cap and mid cap stocks than on small cap stocks. Healthcare, […]
Most Of The World Panics — Is The US Next?
It’s been quite a month. In late October Japan, despite a year of fairly aggressive quantitative easing, dropped back into recession and concluded that even easier money was the cure for its ills. It announced a debt monetization plan of almost science-fictional proportions in which the amount of new yen to be created, as a […]
Alibaba Faces “Its Most Dangerous Moment”
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is China’s, and probably the world’s, biggest online commerce company. Millions of users as well as businesses and suppliers use their three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com. Alibaba became one of the most valuable tech companies in the world after raising $25 billion from its U.S. IPO on September […]
The Best 5 Growth Stocks
I like growth, I like momentum and I like positive investor sentiment. I wanted to find all 3 so I took a list of stocks analysts picked as high growth and ran them through Barchart to find the 5 with the most frequent new highs in the last month to get my list. The list […]
