Category: Investing 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Gold Consolidates as January Portends for Bearish Year for Stock Markets / Commodities / Investing 2009
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold continues to consolidate near recent highs despite profit taking falls. It remains near record highs in British pounds, Euros (03-Feb-09 London AM Fix: $902.00, £636.02, €702.93 ) and many other currencies internationally as fiat currencies internationally come under pressure due to the unprecedented zero percent interest rates, quantitative easing, bailouts and stimulus packages. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Fixed-Income Investing: Safer Alternative to Equity Indexed Annuities / Interest-Rates / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: For many investors, the concept of an equity indexed annuity (EIA for short) - which establishes a guaranteed minimum rate of return, and the ability to capture the upside of the next bull market with no risk of loss - is proving irresistible. That's especially true at a time when the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is still down nearly 45% from its 2007 high of 157.52 and new U.S. President Barack Obama's stimulus plan has yet to be finalized. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Smart Money Investing in Debt and Emerging Markets / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
“I think it was Ben Graham who said, ‘This, too, shall pass.' I think the same applies now…this, too, shall pass.”
That's what David Dreman told me last Friday. We talked about an hour after the markets closed. At the time, a Reuters headline proclaimed, “Worst January Ever for Dow, S&P 500.” The Dow sat at 8,000.
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Stock Market Performance at the Mercy of Grim Corporate and Economic Data / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
An avalanche of worse-than-expected economic and earnings data again put pressure on Wall Street during the past month, resulting in four straight down-weeks and the worst performance of the major US indices for January on record.
“As January goes, so goes the year” is one of the most frequently quoted sayings about seasonal trends in the stock market. With the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 8.8% and the S&P 500 Index 8.6% lower, the year is not off to a promising start.
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Trivial Corporate Earnings, Not-So-Trivial Investor Buying / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
On Wednesday, after the markets closed, as well as Thursday before the open, the distinct majority of earnings surprises were positive. So, why on Earth did the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P close down between 2.7% and 3.3%?
Because what is happening is exactly what I said was happening. Earnings and non-catastrophic news alone are not going to budge the market. The only event that will push or pull prices is the will of investors.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Emerging Markets 2009 Recovery Investing ETF's / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: If you're an emerging-markets investor, and you happened to peruse the study that the Institute for International Finance released this week, you must've experienced alarm - if not panic. The IIF expects the inflow of private funds into these markets to plunge to only $165 billion this year - an amount that's just 18% of the $929 billion that flowed into these very same markets in 2007. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Income in a Zero Interest Rate World / Portfolio / Investing 2009
By: Andy_Sutton
One look at the yields on US Treasuries tells a good part of the story. Listening to Fed Chief Ben Bernanke gives us the rest: it is going to be very hard making any kind of money in many traditional fixed income instruments using the conventional method of clipping bond coupons. Certificates of Deposit won't be much better moving forward. It would seem as though we are destined for either zero or near zero short-term interest rates for at least the next year. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Obama's Role in the Next Stock Market Breakout Direction / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
A hunch is a dangerous thing… And nowhere is it more dangerous than in the investment world, where a wrong hunch can get you a one way ticket to poverty bay.
That said, we thought we'd let you know ours anyway. We have a hunch the market is ready for a very sizeable move. That shouldn't surprise you; after all the VIX is still hovering in the stratosphere, and big moves are, by definition, accompanied by elevated levels in volatility.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A Kinder, Gentler Investment Opportunity / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
Before we get into the meat of it and introduce you to a very compelling income opportunity, a few brief words on the overall market situation as it appears today. It will be important to bear these items in mind as the calamitous cacophony of media Chicken Littles sings its “sky is falling” reprise.
Take it to heart that:
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stock Markets to Bounce Or Not to Bounce– That Is The Question / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Captain_Hook
Like the others , it appears what was formerly reliable sentiment related analysis associated with the study of open interest put / call ratios has now succumb to an increasingly mature market(s) condition. Of course, technically, such a conclusion could be viewed as incorrect in that the reason stocks did not go up this week was not because of selling, but because of a buyers strike. This is why in spite of such devastatingly bad news associated with the economy, and there was a multitude of it this week, stocks did not fall more. It should be noted this has caught the attention of a great many market participants, which is the dynamic that will eventually set up the next round of ‘unwarranted complacency' we expect to grip investor psychology in spring, allowing for far stepper losses in stocks than is being witnessed at present.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Revealed: The Holy Grail of Stem Cell Research / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
Last November, while the markets were cratering, we encouraged Prosperity Dispatch readers to take a step back from the doom and gloomers and look at what is really going on in the world. We were looking for opportunity in the carnage. When looking at the world, the aging demographics, and where most of the world's R&D spending is going, we naturally turned to stem cells. The opportunity here is tremendous. It's like buying oil in the late 90's or tech stocks in the early 90's. Sure, you won't get rich quick, but this one of the best spots to get really rich slowly. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Financial Markets Forecasts 2009 Special / News_Letter / Investing 2009
By: NewsLetter
January 23rd , 2009 Issue #4 Vol. 32008 was the year that collatorised debt obligations wiped out the capital bases of the west's biggest banks, which played itself out during September 2008 following the china syndrome chain reaction that followed the Lehman's bust that led to the unprecedented actions of capital injections and nationalisation of too big to fail banks that looks set to continue for the whole of 2009 and beyond. The crisis had been festering and growing since the August 2007 interbank market freeze due to flawed and some could say fraudulent mark to market valuation of worthless over leveraged mortgage backed CDO's.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Investing in Obama's Infrastructure Boom Profits / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: I wish President Obama the best of luck. He's going to need it. The U.S. — and indeed the entire globe — is in the thick of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Ultimately, the economy and the markets will prevail, healing themselves according to their own timetable.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Financial Crisis Bear Markets, Things Are Always Worst at the Bottom / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: The_Gold_Report
The inimitable Dennis Gartman, who has been publishing his popular commentary since 1987, took a break from one of his busy days to chat with The Gold Report. As he reads it, things will get worse before they get better—but we're not facing Armageddon. In fact, he posits that the worse the news gets the closer we are to emerging from the economic morass. He agrees that liquidity injections by the Fed and central banks the world over will lead to inflation—but he foresees single-digit stuff as opposed to hyperinflation. He favors modest holdings in physical gold—but would rather lose money on the bullion and coins he personally holds. He buys into the peak oil argument—but doesn't expect the day the world runs out of crude oil to dawn for maybe 10,000 years. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 23, 2009
Turn Economic Downturn into Investment Opportunity Like a Billionaire / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
Do you know what a Model T is?
Of course you do. Who doesn't? It's the car that put America on wheels. It was the product of some of the greatest manufacturing innovations. It changed the world.
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