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Silver Enthuses While Gold Snoozes

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Now before we get into it, did you happen to notice that S&P/Experian’s consumer credit compilation just recorded its highest pace of credit card defaults since July 2012, indeed up for the fourth straight month? And note how it is coincident with the Fed having raised rates? You heard it first foretold here so many months […]

GBP/USD Forecast Apr. 23-27 – 5 Reasons For Pound Plunge, GDP Unlikely To Be The Savior

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

GBP/USD had a bad week when everything went wrong for the pound. After hardly holding onto 1.40, sterling now faces the GDP report and another public appearance by Mark Carney. Will it continue lower? Here are the key events and an updated technical analysis for GBP/USD. The bad news began with wages that remained stagnant at […]

Weekly Market Outlook – The Least Opportune Time To Give Up

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

For the better part of the first half of April, it looked like the market was going to make good on the recovery hints it dropped early in the month. Now that entire effort is being called into question. Though the rebound gain was never a move backed by high volume, a major hurdle […]

Yen Weakness Remains As Japanese Inflation Settles: The BoJ Is On Deck

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Talking Points: US Dollar Shows Strength Ahead of ECB, BoJ Rate Decisions. JPY in the Spotlight: Yen Weakness Shows Ahead of Japanese Inflation. Fundamental Forecast for JPY: Bearish This week saw a JPY in the Spotlight: Yen Weakness Shows Ahead of Japanese Inflation as the currency continues to step back from the ledge of risk aversion. The […]

Dwindling Pipeline Capacity Causes FOMO

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) hasn’t been much of a problem for energy infrastructure investors over the past year or so. Feelings of WAIL (Why Am I Long?) and (ahem) WTH have been far more common. So the recent rally in the sector has led many investors to enquire why. Earnings only began to be […]

The Hurry Up And Wait Market

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

This market is beginning to remind me of boot camp; a “hurry up and wait” market. Waiting for what they’d never tell you, but I will. The bulls are waiting for the Dow Jones to break above last February 26th‘s -3.41% in the BEV chart below, while the bears are waiting for it to break […]

USDCAD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, April 22

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

USDCAD’s downside movement from 1.3124 had completed at 1.2526 already. A further rally would likely be seen in a couple of weeks and the next target would be at 1.3000 area. Support is at 1.2526, only a breakdown below this level could trigger another fall towards the bottom of the price channel on the daily […]

Goldman Sachs: These 5 Stocks Can Break Higher

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

With the market in gridlock, Goldman Sachs has identified 14 stocks that seem to offer big upside potential. From the firm’s report, we used TipRanks’ powerful insights to pinpoint the five stocks with the most bullish Street outlook. Indeed, these are the stocks with a ‘Strong Buy’ analyst consensus right now. TipRanks’ algorithms track and rank […]

The Canadian Dollar: The Bank Of Canada Keeps Applying The Brakes

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Last June, 2017, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada (BoC) Carolyn A. Wilkins stepped onto the stage with a surprisingly bullish message about the Canadian economy. This speech set the stage for the BoC’s rollback of “emergency measure” rate cuts that responded to the collapse in oil prices. At the time, the Canadian dollar […]

Walmart CEO Makes 1,888 Times Median Worker Take Home Pay: Anyone See A Problem?

Apr 22, 2018 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Walmart ranks 10th in CEO to median take-home pay. How Does Your Pay Stack Up? Public firms in the S&P 500 now generally disclose how much they pay employees. The median wage across all the groups in the feature image is about $69,000. The median pay for the consumer group alone is about $35,000. For […]