USD/CAD Forecast: Nov. 20-24

USD/CAD Forecast: Nov. 20-24

Dollar/CAD moved up in a mixed week, trying to find a new direction amid sliding oil prices. Retail sales stand out in the upcoming week. Here are the highlights and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. Canada’s manufacturing sales and foreign securities purchases both beat expectations but the first ADP jobs report showed a drop in jobs. […]
AUD/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

AUD/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

AUD/USD extended its downside movement from 0.8124, facing a support level at 0.7535. As long as the pair is below the falling trend line on the daily chart, the downside move can be expected to continue and next target would be at 0.7328. On the upside, a clear break above the trend line resistance could […]
EUR/USD Closes Higher But With Caution Of Pullbacks

EUR/USD Closes Higher But With Caution Of Pullbacks

EUR/USD: The pair may be biased to the upside but could face pullback risk in the new week. Resistance comes in at the 1.1800 level with a cut through here opening the door for more upside towards the 1.1850 level. Further up, resistance lies at the 1.1900 level where a break will expose the 1.1950 […]
Big Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up These 5 Hot Stocks

Big Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up These 5 Hot Stocks

Hedge fund’s Q3 trades are now public following the release of 13F forms filed with the SEC. This means that now is the time to track the “Smart Money” of hedge fund gurus like Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn. Here we searched for stocks with both a positive hedge fund signal and a ‘Strong Buy’ […]
Partnerships & Buyouts To Drive Salesforce (CRM) Q3 Earnings

Partnerships & Buyouts To Drive Salesforce (CRM) Q3 Earnings

Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Free Report) is set to report third-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Nov 21. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is pegged at 37 cents, representing a year-over-year increase of a whopping 52%. Additionally, analysts polled by Zacks project revenues of roughly $2.65 billion, up 23.5% from the year-ago quarter. Let’s see what’s driving this […]
Short Volatility Strategies And A Word Of Caution

Short Volatility Strategies And A Word Of Caution

This week will be a shortened trading week as we celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday for which the markets will be closed. Of course the retailers will be opening their doors in the evening for shoppers to get a jump-start on the holiday gift-giving season. So what better way and time to publish my latest […]
Strong Earnings For Small-Cap Cyclicals

Strong Earnings For Small-Cap Cyclicals

By The Royce Funds Co-CIO Francis Gannon on the promising pace of small-cap earnings and what expanding global growth could mean for certain small-cap cyclicals. Image source: Wikimedia Commons The pace of small-cap earnings continues to trend in a positive direction, with results in many cases exceeding expectations. Our friends at Furey Research Partners recently reported that, with […]
Creating Easy Income Throughout Retirement

Creating Easy Income Throughout Retirement

Retirement is a tricky thing to arrange. There are so many ways to approach it, whether through wealth, government assistance, increased frugality, or easy/passive income options. Passive income is the one we want to focus on, partially because it’s getting so much attention recently from people who are not even close to retirement. There are […]
Gold Clout, Dollar Rout, Tax Bill Doubt

Gold Clout, Dollar Rout, Tax Bill Doubt

Through Thursday of this past week, Gold for all the world was yet again reprising its rendition of  “Nowhere Man” –(The Beatles, ’65), apparently en route to a fourth consecutive weekly net change of less than 10 points. But then come Thursday evening was the termination of the “Sell the rumour” (from back in mid-October’s […]
GBP/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

GBP/USD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, November 19

GBP/USD stays above a bullish trend line on the daily chart and remains in the uptrend from 1.1946 (Oct 2016 low). As long as the price is above the trend line, the fall from 1.3657 could be treated as consolidation of the uptrend and another rise to the falling trend line on the weekly chart is still […]