Category Archive: Finance
S&P 500, FTSE 100, And Nikkei 225 Declining Due To Geopolitical Tension
If you have read our previous report on equities, you would notice that most of the indices that we mentioned did move according to our plan. Most of the global equities continued to retrace to the downside. The retracement comes just right before the earnings season. However, the geopolitical tension played the biggest role in […]
Gold Slammed For 3rd Day As USD/JPY Spikes
A little earlier than the last two days (right before the London Fix)… But gold is suddenly under pressure again this morning as USD/JPY just decided unilaterally to spike bursting beyond 109.00… On heavy volume again… But it does appear the slamming efforts are fading.
Being Disciplined 90% Of The Time Won’t Work
Kopin Tan in Barron’s had some fascinating numbers about the flows into passive funds; Over the past two years alone, investors have pulled $574 billion from actively managed U.S. funds and plowed $924 billion into passive vehicles, says Morningstar. Active U.S. managers oversee $9.7 trillion, but that haul hasn’t grown much in four years and is […]
Thoughtful Thursday – Markets At A Crossroads
“I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees. Down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees. I’m standin’ at the crossroad, babe, I believe I’m sinking down.” – Cream Earnings are simply not that exciting. The growth in earnings was SUPPOSED to come from the Financials and the Energy Sector and […]
Europe Breaking Support, Spill Over Into The States
How stocks do in Europe, can have an important impact on stocks in the States. Today we look at the patterns in London and Germany, as recent price action could “spill over” into stocks in the states. FTSE 100 Index below- FTSE 100 hit resistance line (2) of late and it quickly turned south, breaking rising […]
PPG Industries, Inc. Q1 Earnings Beat, Still Hopeful On AkzoNobel Merger
PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE: PPG) early Thursday posted better than expected first quarter earnings and provided an update on its proposed merger with AkzoNobel N.V. (PINK: AKZOY).
50-Day Moving Average Providing Resistance
Watch resistance at the 50 day moving average It had been acting as support prior to its break last week, but now the 50 day moving average has firmly converted itself into resistance overhead. Following the break last Tuesday, it has gotten close to pushing back above the 50 day moving average but each time […]
E Small Cap Best And Worst – Thursday, April 20
The best small cap sector is technology. The top small cap industry is investment brokerage. The average small cap score is 47.46 and over the past four weeks, the score has averaged 50.12. The typical small cap stock in our coverage is trading -25.49% below its 52 week high, -1.22% below its 200 dma, and […]
Bull Of The Day: Inogen
It looks like the market is going to have to wait for a bill to “Repeal and replace” Obamacare. Regardless of what side of the political isle you find yourself on, it’s tough to discount the impact of such an event on stocks in the medical business. This is a varied business, with pockets that […]
China Leading Global Markets In 2017: A Look At Key Performance Drivers
This year one of the more remarkable performance stories has been China. In the first quarter, along with its emerging market fellow India, China was ranked in the top two of Index strategies that WisdomTree has in its global family of equity Indexes. Trump and Xi Talk China has been a focal point recently, with the […]
