Category Archive: Finance
Why You Should Stay Away From IPOs
First what is an IPO? It stands for initial public offering and it means a company is now listed to trade on one of the exchanges, New York or NASDAQ in the U.S. It is a common way that founders and investors of the company can finally cash out. They can now sell their ownership […]
USD/CAD Hourly: Critical Resistance Tested…
Critical resistance at 1.2521, the Wave 1 low, was tested today. Looking for a push lower in minor Wave 5 down.
Are These The 6 Best Stocks In The Dow Jones Industrial Average? – Part 3
Introduction In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I covered 12 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks that I considered the most expensive of the index. With this part 3, I will be looking at 6 additional Dow stocks that for the most part I would consider fully valued to only moderately overvalued. What […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Clothed In The Sun
Gold and silver caught a big today, even as stocks continued their slanted push up against trend resistance. I have some optimism for the price of gold here, as it seems to draw the usual rally off the Non-Farm Payrolls bottom, all other things being even. There is intermediate trend resistance at 1340 that may […]
18 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive And Ford Motor
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following four Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Apache and Hormel Foods. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend. Any stock ranked by […]
Record High Stocks, Record Low VIX But Bitcoin, Bonds, & Bullion Bid
Buy it all… On the week – Stocks are up, Treasury Bonds are up, Corporate Bonds are up, Gold is up, Bitcoin is up, and WTI Crude is up… Video length: 00:04:05 Before we get started – consider the following… And perhaps this will help explain last week’s action compared to this week’s? Everything reversed trend […]
Retail Sales Improves In September 2017
Retail sales were up according to US Census headline data – but slightly below expectations. The unadjusted rolling average improved. . Analyst Opinion of Retail Sales Things to consider when viewing this data: it is not inflation adjusted – and inflation in this sector is now running near 1.5 %. the three month rolling […]
EUR/GBP – Still Headed For 88 Cents
With the wild swings in EUR/USD came big moves for EUR/GBP on Friday but when the dust settled, sterling outperformed the euro and we think this move will last. The European Central Bank’s monetary policy announcement is less than 2 weeks away. Between now and then, the only thing that investors will be thinking about […]
USD/CAD Forecast Oct. 16-20, 2017
Dollar/CAD slipped from the highs in a much-needed correction. The upcoming week’s highlights are the inflation and retail sales reports. What’s next? Here are the highlights and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. Canadian housing figures were mixed: housing starts beat expectations with 217K while building permits plunged by 5.5%. In the US, the Fed’s worries […]
