Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Top Ranked Value Stocks To Buy For June 2
Here are four stocks with Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and strong value characteristics for investors to consider today, June 2: Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation (BGFV – Free Report) : This sporting goods retailer has seen the Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current year earnings soaring 16.8% over the last 60 days. Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation […]
China’s Leverage Crackdown And What It Means For Stocks
For the last several decades, China’s economy has been growing at an extraordinary clip and now stands as the second largest economy in the world. Inevitably that rate must slow, which is exactly what has happened each year since 2010. The absolute rate of growth of the economy is a strong point of pride in […]
E-Mini S&P500 Ahead Of NFP
The S&P 500 is trading at all time highs with some sharp price move up from 2403 that we see as a fifth wave rally, the final part of a five wave recovery from 2345 called an impulse wave*. There are some Fibonacci levels around 2440 that may play an important role for the next […]
Sterling ‘Risk’ Spikes To Post-Brexit Highs Ahead Of UK Election
The premium to bet on the pound’s volatility in the next two weeks relative to one-month wagers has surged to the highest level since the aftermath of the Brexit vote ahead of next week’s U.K. snap election. As Bloomberg notes, even though polls suggest Prime Minister Theresa May remains on track to increase her parliamentary majority… But, so-called butterfly options… Show the pound’s […]
EC Risk Premia Forecasts: Major Asset Classes – Friday, June 22
The projected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) ticked higher in May. GMI, an unmanaged market-value weighted mix of the major asset classes, is expected to earn an annualized 5.4% (over the “risk-free” rate) in the long run – 20 basis points above last month’s estimate. Adjusting for short-term momentum and longer-term mean-reversion factors (defined below) […]
Dollar Marks Time Ahead Of U.S. Jobs Report
The foreign exchange market is becalmed, leaving the US dollar narrowly mixed. The euro has been confined to less than a 20-pip range through the Asian session and most of the European morning. The news stream is light. The US withdrawal from the Paris Accord may have garnered the headlines, but as a market force, […]
Silver And Nasdaq Strength Will Reverse
Bubbles come and go. Silver and gold – 1980 Japanese Nikkei – 1990 Nasdaq – 2000 Mortgages and Real Estate – 2006 Bonds, Debt, Stocks, Real Estate – 2017 Examine the following graph of monthly data for 32 years of the Nasdaq 100 Index and Silver. We saw the Nasdaq bubble in 1999-2000, a rapid rise for silver in […]
Friday, June 2 – Lookback
Welcome to the easyMarkets weekly review where we look back over the results of some of the previous week’s economic indicators. It gives us the chance to reflect on how much expectations were met or missed and to examine a successful trade you could have made this week. Event: US Core PCE Price Index Date: […]
Here’s Your Last Chance To Preview Friday’s “All-Important” Jobs Report
We’ll get the jobs report on Friday and after Thursday’s ADP beat, there’s a palpable sense of optimism out there as evidenced by the overnight risk-on mood. Here are the estimates: Change in Nonfarm Payrolls, est. 182,000, prior 211,000 Change in Private Payrolls, est. 175,000, prior 194,000 Change in Manufact. Payrolls, est. 5,000, prior 6,000 […]
How America Could Save $65 Billion In Mobile Phone Bills
It is a fact of nature that all countries have the same electromagnetic spectrum of radio frequencies. It is a fact of politics that countries have different rules for allocating these frequencies. And it is a fact of economics that people in different countries pay very different rates for their use of spectrum. Mara Faccio […]
