Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Gold, Silver, Lumber, Farmland, Foreign Real Estate Alternative Investments To Consider / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Chris Mack writes: Are you one of the millions of people who lost money over the past decade in stocks and housing who is now buying bonds, annuities, and other fixed deposit credit based investments? If so you are probably doing so because you think it is the conservative thing to do but, in fact, you are really being a speculator buying an asset far above its intrinsic value with the idea that someone else will pay even more and such action is guaranteed to disappoint. Instead, you should make alternative investments the core of your portfolio. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 04, 2010
U.S. Stocks Not Cheap, S&P Earning Estimates Still Overly Optimistic / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Mike_Shedlock
Bloomberg reports S&P 500 Profits Cut for First Time in Year by Analysts.
Read full article... Read full article...For the first time in more than a year analysts are cutting their forecasts for Standard & Poor’s 500 Index earnings, jeopardizing gains from the biggest September rally since World War II.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Welcome to My Inflation / Deflation Nightmare / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Captain_Hook
So what’s all the hubbub about a nightmare? The charts are now confirming we are looking at significant inflation moving forward, and the price increases to go along with this, meaning we are staring down the barrel of an inflationary depression dead ahead. And make no mistakes about it; this will be a nightmare for the average citizen, literally wiping out the middle class financially in the process. First, via completive devaluations, monetizations, and the likes, the pace at which the cost of living will continue to shoot higher, which is what breaking out precious metals are signaling; and then, volatility in asset prices will reemerge, wiping out the savings of the average investor / pensioners going the other way (what the simple minded term deflation), leaving the masses increasingly in dire straits coming from both directions.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Stocks Start Week Soft as Automakers Struggle / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US stocks slipped Friday, halting the longest streak of weekly gains since April, derailed by US macro economic numbers. In further bad news for freshly nationalized AIB; M&T Bank was again noticeably weak and finished the up down 10 percent on the week to lead financial companies lower after reports that merger talks with Banco Santander of Spain had broken down, while Monsanto tumbled 13 percent on concern its SmartStax corn seeds aren’t performing as well as predicted. A rally in energy shares limited the market’s drop as oil capped its biggest weekly advance since February and EQT Corp. surged after reporting two Pennsylvania natural-gas wells produced “exceptional” results .
Monday, October 04, 2010
Excuse Me If I Come On Too Strong, Out Current Form of Government is Broken / Stock-Markets / US Debt
By: Larry_Edelson
Excuse me in advance if I come on too strong, sound a bit cynical or emotional — or even unpatriotic — at any time in my column today.
But gold’s continued strong price rise is a resounding warning shot. And I want to put what it means on the table for you … without mincing any words … without sounding mealy-mouthed … and without tip-toeing around any of the issues.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Why The Fed's Actions Are Boosting the Stocks Bull Market Cycle / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: News from the U.S. Federal Reserve is keeping the bull cycle for U.S. stocks alive and well. Despite investors taking a breather this week, the outlook is good for coming months.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 0.2% since Monday, while the Nasdaq 100, shown below, fell every day of the past week for a total slippage of 1.5%. The week felt a lot better than that for my subscribers because all but one of our exchange-traded funds (ETF) bets is on overseas stocks, and most rose 1.75% to 4.7%.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Final Freakout? Hyperinflation as the New Deflation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
We all know someone who seems to be in a constant state of worry and stress. If it's not one thing, it's another. They seem to have an underlying need to be worried sick about something. One way or another, they are sure that disaster is just around the corner and the worst possible result is the most certain fate.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Financial Markets Analysis on Stocks, Dollar, Gold and Silver / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
This week we saw civil unrest in Europe as the situation deteriorates in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. It seems that the man on the street resents paying for the excesses of previous governments. People have been conditioned to expect the government to pay for things like education, medicine and retirement benefits since they paid a significant portion of their income into that government in the form of income tax. That was the trade off, and now they feel like they've been betrayed. In America the story is a little bit different in that we paid in less tax but received bubbles in return. These bubbles created the illusion of wealth and they made us feel good about ourselves. Unfortunately the biggest bubble of all is debt, used to finance all the other bubbles, and it is about to topple the empire.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Gold Stocks, SP500 and U.S. Dollar Turning Points, What’s Next? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Investors around the globe are concerned with the economic outlook, not only with the United States but with virtually every country. This has caused not only investors but banks and countries to start buying gold & silver in order to be protected incase of a currency melt down in the coming years.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Stock Market Top? The Bull & Bear of it! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: JD_Rosendahl
I've been calling for a top into the end of September 2010, and Thursday's gap higher and failure is a classic sign of potentially just that. That being said, there is still too many conflicting technicals currently.
$SPX 60 Minute: I've put the bearish label on the 60 minute chart because it looks like a classic ABC pattern up. The MACD doesn't look terribly bearish sliding lower, so we could get another little push higher. So far, price has been held in check at the middle pitchfork line, but the RSI has room to support another test of overbought levels. Price needs to trade below 1,125 to increase the bearish view. That will also overlap with wave A.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
Stocks Bear Market Rally Explained / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Tim_Wood
It has now been some 19 months since the March 2009 low. Because of the duration of this rally, many are beginning to wonder how I can continue to say that it’s a bear market rally and not a new bull market. The answer to this question lies with the historical bull/bear market relationships, Dow theory phasing and values.
So, let’s first look at bull and bear market relationships. But, before I even begin I want to clarify that cycles have absolutely nothing to do with Dow theory. Cycles and Dow theory are two completely different disciplines. However, they can be used to compliment each other if we understand both disciplines.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
Stock Prices Are Still Cheap! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jared_Levy
Are stock prices still cheap? It all depends on how you look at it of course and what your time horizon is for the stock's price history.
Part of what makes the markets function properly is the multitude of belief systems, strategies, analysis and risk tolerance that we all use.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Stock Market SPX Topping Pattern Appears Complete / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
FDIC Has Another Slow Week. -
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced two new bank closures this week. Lenders in Florida and Washington collapsed today, pushing the number of U.S. bank failures to 129 for the year, as financial firms suffer losses on loans tied to real estate.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Stock Market Consolidating.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
There is a large belief that the market has no chance for a break up and out from here. That the top has been put in when it failed above 1150 a day back. That may very well be true, but I don't think that's the case at all. When the market got to the 1150 area on its way to the big one at 1160, it did so at overbought. Not the best way to get there. It was natural for it to fail there after a big run up. First tests after a big run usually do fail. It usually takes multiple moves back up to take it out.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
The BubbleOmics Guide to Gaming Billions from Basel III / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
Good News, the draft new “Basel” rules from the Bank of International Settlements are just out and are approved subject to detail. So is this the start of a new beginning?
Banking Regulation is not exactly a subject that excites passion, although the reaction from “God’s Workers” was that the new rules might make it harder for them to perform their essential service to mankind (and thus more expensive). And thus the overview put out by the Central Bankers Club in Basel onto the Web, is a masterpiece of political correctness and restrained “gravitas” http://www.basel-iii-accord.com/.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Blue Chips Outperform in Mixed Stocks Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices ended mixed at the end of the day with better results on the New York Stock Exchange than on Nasdaq. The day started out with a gap up on both indices. They reached resistance, then sold off very sharply on economic news, with the Nasdaq 100 dropping from 2017 down to 1987, or 30 points. The S&P 500 at that point dropped from 1151 down to 1139, about 12 points.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Investors refuse to be suckered back into the stock market / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
U.S. Postal Service Had $6 Billion Loss in 2010
(Bloomberg) The U.S. Postal Service, whose request for a rate increase was turned down this week, had a $6 billion loss in the fiscal year that ended yesterday, Postmaster General John Potter said.
The agency, which sought permission from its regulator to raise rates an average of 5.6 percent, had forecast a loss of $7 billion in the 2010 fiscal year. The loss is before a $2 billion non-cash adjustment for workers’ compensation liability, which is increasing because of lower interest rates, Potter told reporters today in Washington.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Investors Surmounting the Wealth Destruction Dollar Debasement Juggernaut / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Dollar's decline is a result of the "quantitative easing" the Fed has been stepping up recently. Quantitative Easing is a fancy term for printing fiat money and exchanging it for long term good and garbage securities held by Wall Street firms, as part of the president's Working Group's activities. The money has debased the value of the Dollar, and found its way into commodities, stock and bond markets. At some point here, stocks will no longer remain in an uptrend, as the Dollar's debasement takes its toll.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
China, The Tale of the Asian Tiger Boosting Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
The Hang Seng rose 179 points in today’s trading and finished down 20 for the day – THAT’S how bad the open was! The Nikkei finished an up and down 100-point swing up 34 points at 9,404 but dove into the close along with the dollar (our 3am trade), which now can be bought with just 83 Yen. The Shanghai, on the other hand, was feeling hot, hot, hot and gained 1.7% just behind the BSE, which flew up 1.9% to take back the position of Global Leader.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, October 01, 2010
Stock Market Seasonality Revisited! / Stock-Markets / Seasonal Trends
By: Sy_Harding
Since we are within a few weeks of the potential beginning of the market’s historically favorable season, it’s time to again bring up the subject of the market’s seasonality.